Reply #116: Wow, some of you guys are pretty defensive of the military.

[LAGC]

I appreciate hearing your anecdotal accounts, and I admit I was exaggerating when I said the problem was happening "all the time" -- but quite a few times over the years, at least -- enough to take note of any way. (And those are only the incidents that made the news -- I imagine the military doesn't much like to advertise such unpleasant findings when they occur.)

But I mean, if there were no criminal element in the oh-so-holy military ranks, why would we need military police for? You can have the most secure security system in the world, all sorts of alarms and technology to protect stuff, but its only as good as its weakest link, which is usually the human factor. Doesn't take much of a conspiracy between just a few key players to defeat it.

Tracking and inventory control is great, and I'm sure balls get busted whenever there's a discrepancy found, but that is more akin to closing the barn doors after the cows have already escaped. Doesn't change the fact that losses do occur.