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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: long-gone who wrote (61590)	11/7/2000 1:28:27 PM
From: Don Hurst	Respond to of 769670

You intended this to be a criticism of the military, right? Pretty scary stuff.. and I thought the Russian military had problems and needed close watching. Makes you wonder whether Bush's Maginot Line is going to protect us. Good thing I still have my Swiss residency permit. " "More than three times every week," reported Russ Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of the Daily News, "the military reported losing explosives and other weapons." Of 166 weapons-related courts-martial studied by Carollo and Nesmith, less than half (78) were sentenced to more than six months. Another third received confinements of 90 days or less. But that's just when they're caught. The growing lack of fiscal and property oversight during the Clinton-Gore years seems to have aggravated an already severe problem. A 1997 St. Louis Post-Dispatch article notes that many thefts go unreported by the Army, such as the 1996 Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., case involving the theft of 54 claymore mines -- more than the Army had reported in the previous seven years. The Air Force Audit Agency reported in 1994 that some 1,200 M-16 rifles were unreported in the Air Force's small-arms registry. Las Vegas Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agent Ed Verkin recalls that when he called a military base to notify officials of one of their weapons he had recovered -- which was then lying on his desk -- military personnel denied that it was missing."