As proof, consider that a law in effect since 1992 requires annual audits of all federal agencies – and the Pentagon alone has never complied. It annually repor

As proof, consider that a law in effect since 1992 requires annual audits of all federal agencies – and the Pentagon alone has never complied. It annually reports to Congress that its books are in such disarray that an audit is impossible. What the hell? How can this acceptable? God forbid an American makes a typo in their taxes and gets audited to hell and back but if a major section of the government says "yep, we can't do that because we are so messed up that it is impossible to fix" they are given a pass? Sickening and I'm not even American. precise totals on the extent and cost of these mistakes are impossible to come by, and for the very reason the errors plague the military in the first place: the Defense Department’s jury-rigged network of mostly incompatible computer systems for payroll and accounting, many of them decades old, long obsolete, and unable to communicate with each other. The DFAS accounting system still uses a half-century-old computer language that is largely unable to communicate with the equally outmoded personnel management systems employed by each of the military services. Oh, and heres a startup idea! The department’s authorized 2013 budget, after sequester, totals $565.8 billion And they have the cash to support it! Seriously though, who thinks "they're own books are literally unusable, let's given em a FREAKING THIRD OF CANADA'S GDP TO PLAY WITH!" and ends up not getting shot for treason? Edit: As I read and read it just gets worse and worse! “At last count, there were 167 manual workarounds” for the 40-year-old pay system used by DFAS and all the services except the Marines, he says. As a result, staff often must transcribe information from one system onto paper, carry it to another office, and hand it off to other workers who then manually enter it into other systems – a process called “finger-gapping” that Wallace faults as a further source of errors. NONONONO this is not how to run a small business let alone the largest war machine the world has ever seen Based on a self-audit, it said, its accuracy for pay and calculation of benefits for military personnel in the nine months through July 2012 was 99.76 percent. The agency also said it had undergone partial audits for pay accuracy by the inspector general of the Defense Department and by the GAO. For the love of... I can't continue reading, I might have a stroke.