Monday, August 18, 2014
"Pentagon weaponry in St. Louis County"
Military waste and surplus are periodically in the news.
How to stop the waste and how to dispose of the surpluses are interesting subjects...
How to stop the waste and how to dispose of the surpluses are interesting subjects...
On the USAtoday website, David Mastio and Kelsey Rupp posted an article about this:
"Michelle McCaskill, media relations chief at the Defense Logistics Agency, confirms that the Ferguson Police Department is part of a federal program called 1033 that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of surplus military equipment to civilian police forces across the United States. The materials range from small items, such as pistols and automatic rifles, to heavy armored vehicles such as the MRAPs used in Afghanistan and Iraq.
'In 2013 alone, $449,309,003.71 worth of property was transferred to law enforcement,' the agency's website states."
