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Yep I was mistaken. It seems the article you cited may have been the origin story. What I read, (and it changed in my head over time obviously to the point of
by dfsegoat 9y ago
Yep I was mistaken. It seems the article you cited may have been the origin story.
What I read, (and it changed in my head over time obviously to the point of perpetuating an urban legend) was from the military times in 2016 - which cites anecdotes that House Armed Services Cmte. Chairman, Mac Thornberry received firsthand [0].
Thanks for correcting me on this.
[0] - https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2016/03/30/congressional-failures-just-forced-the-marines-to-raid-a-museum-for-aircraft-parts/ https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2016/03/30/...
- grkvlt 9y agoNP. There's a lot of urban legend style stories about the military (multi thousand dollar hammers, that sort of thing) passed around, both in the US and the UK, and I think it's important that where there are cases of actual incompetence or negligence they get reported, but it's counterproductive to invent things so it's useful to correct any false impressions.