User Panel
Posted: 2/16/2006 5:17:03 PM EDT
Doesn't Congress have anything better to do?
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Sure is a lot of money and investigative power over some food that doesn't even taste all that great.
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If companies and the Feds weren't such pricks about selling them to us peons these things wouldn't happen
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<shrug> This is what a welfare state gets you.
"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly." -Thomas Paine |
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Theft of government property.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time ... don't do it! |
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Another case of too much time on their hands, MREs were being put on the street corner and being given away here in NOLA. No one wanted the bad ones. They sat in the tents for weeks. I have a few at home still, and I would have to be really hungry to eat them.
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Yep, unless you are broke and unemployed because we, the Govt ,can't get any money out of your ass. |
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Yeah, and this is all fucking great for those who aquired them through totally legal means, such as buying them from HealthyHarvest when they had Wornick over stock MREs in stock for around 220 for 3 cases delivered.
If I wanted to turn around and sell mine on ebay they can come investigate you, would love to tell them to fuck off and die. |
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from the picture....2 of those investigated were from Albany GA and Barstow CA. Albany is the location of the Marine Corps' east coast logistics base, Barstow is the West coast logistics base. i think MRE's should be legal but i wouldnt be suprised if it was a large operation. i know what its like to come in from the field and throw a left over case in the back of my truck, but 2 guys selling straight from major logistics bases means they probably have a large scale scam going. its one thing for a box to "fall off a truck" then theres waste-fraud, and abuse.
if some guy ebays a few cases he got from katrina relief...fine. some soldier ebays a case he scored from a deployment...no biggie. some REMF asshole at a logistics base with a pallet of MREs in his garage...UCMJ his ass. |
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i got 3 cases i should put up 4 sale just to piss someone off..
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After the food was handed out at distribution centers or handed to a boot on the ground for his use who's property was it? Theft is one thing, but reselling something you hold as property rather than shitting it out 6 days hence (they should put exlax in there) is a completely differant matter. You can buy them at some PXs. |
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Dare I ask what the "bad ones" are? |
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the real problem is the amount they just dump on the area.
during ivan my dad was delivered 2 cases of mre's every other day for 2 people. after 3 deliveries he tried to refuse and they dumped them on his porch and left. he now has about 12 cases stock piled. sure it's nice, but what do they expect people to do with all the damn things, especially if they don't want them. it's not like the .gov will accept them back. |
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pretty much all of them. there are MUCH better commercial foods out there cheaper. |
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There is not telling how many cases of MRE's are floating around NO. I had one guy try to give me 30 cases. |
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30 Cases of shelf stable food with a 10year shelf life is a good score. I hope you didnt turn it down. NOLA got fresher MRE's than i ever saw in the USMC. |
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I had no place to keep it or transport it. Had to turn it down. |
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Ah yes, the mystical flea market full of MREs, interceptor vests and SAPI plates.
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Country chicken. |
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Incidentally, I'm almost out of money waiting for a call back on a job so I had an MRE tonight. Menu #14 Pasta w/ Alfredo Sauce (from a vegitarian case) is aok in my book (assuming you don't have to eat it all the time).
Came with a pack of dry roasted peanuts and a packet of pears. Wish it had some carmel in it but you can't win them all. |
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Wait a freakin minute...
Cant you buy MREs from Sportsmans Guide? |
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Roughly 90% of the ones he sells are outdated, and the rest are in beat to shit cases. I have no doubt that they all come from the trash out there. He isn't taking food out of some Marine's mouth. What he is doing is passing off trashed MREs as new, and selling shit that is gonna go bad in the next couple of years. |
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Just to make sure I'm not completely whacked here, it IS legal to possess MRE's right?
There's not some government rat somewhere that made a rarely enforced law about it is there? I ask this from the number of those cases above where the case was referred back to DOD IG. That whole "If you don't cooperate, we'll nail your ass to the wall on this 'spitting on the widewalk' charge" type thing. |
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Put it this way, are some Soldier's or Marine's tatty (well, not usually tatty) old BDUs legal for you to possess? What about his old, worn out & outdated LBV-88? |
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