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2016-08-19 Home Front: WoT
Prison inmates produced defective combat helmets for U.S. soldiers
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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 And there you have it folks - the circle jerk of cronyism, or collective oligarchy, in all its glory. It was not always thus, well intentioned folks might get a government issue item - well, issued - manufactured by well meaning folks.

It's an outrage that any military equipment is being produced in a prison, hotbeda of radicalism, Islamic and Domestic. You expect pride in a job well done?

Cui Bono?.
Posted by Bov Flimbers 2016-08-19 00:26||   2016-08-19 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Goes back to the 80s when the asshats in Beltway decided to make prison pay for itself. They gave the Bureau of Prisons priority in government contracts.

At the time the Army had a contract for its camouflage netting produced on a BIA indian reservations. The Army appealed but the cronies got their way and the prison system got the contract and the reservation got unemployment.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-08-19 08:28||   2016-08-19 08:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Here's a potential win-win: cancel all prison contracts for everything but gravel; gives the prison an income stream and it is really, really hard to phuck up rock.
Posted by USN,Ret. 2016-08-19 08:42||   2016-08-19 08:42|| Front Page Top

#4 You never worked at a Title 1 school USN?

I could put 2 kids, a chicken feather and an anvil in a room, check back in an hour an the anvil would be in 11 pieces.
Posted by Shipman 2016-08-19 09:13||   2016-08-19 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 "I suggest that the prisoners, their supervisors, and the Armor Source people be required to wear the helmets. Each must suffer two whacks in the head with a baseball bat wielded by an E6 or above who has served in Iraq or Afghanistan. If they survive the two whacks, no charges will be pressed."

Chute packer in a prior life?
Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-08-19 15:53||   2016-08-19 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Forced labor to build military equipment is the essence of stupidity.

The Discovery Channel's Tank Overhaul -- The Panther had an interesting side commentary about parts sabotaged by Nazi forced laborers.
Posted by magpie 2016-08-19 17:46||   2016-08-19 17:46|| Front Page Top

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