Procurement issues have been an ongoing problem for many moons.Typical example:When I arrived in SEA the first thing that struck me was.. over here on the tarmac we had multitudes of broken airplanes sitting awaiting parts,a shortage of 7.62 ammo but over here stateside beer piled up two stories high and exploding under tarps.C-130's and 141's coming in day after day with beer,but parts/ammo?? Nada!! Our maintenance people pulling their hair out to keep everyone as operationally ready as they could but by God we had beer and plenty of it!! We always said if the VC would ever overrun us we'd just lay down our weapons and hand out the beer!!!
