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Desperadoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 10:42 PM
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Panel Notes Problems Tracking Reservists
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon computer systems cannot track all military members, one of the flaws that hampered the activation of about 300,000 reservists since the Sept. 11 attacks, congressional investigators said in a report Thursday.

The military services had separate and sometimes incompatible computer systems to keep track of active-duty and reserve personnel, forcing some officials to use desktop computer spreadsheets for that purpose, the General Accounting Office report said.

Inconsistent orders on how to activate units caused problems such as activating an Air National Guard unit without notifying Air National Guard leaders, the investigators found.

The Pentagon lost track of some reservists called to active duty, keeping them on active duty longer than authorized or keeping units on alert for activation for a year or more.<snip>

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030821/D7T2IU5G1.html
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 10:46 PM
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1. They get more money than God...
...so much they can lose a trillion and not blink, yet they can't track 300,000 people? I bet the govt could find them if their kids were getting reduced rate lunches.
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Ouabache Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 10:46 PM
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2. Must be the same computers used when Junior went AWOL from Reserve
They sure had plenty of trouble tracking him in and out of Texas bars and Mexican whorehouses.
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kainah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-21-03 10:54 PM
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3. something tells me it's going to get A LOT harder n/t
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