Navy SEALS want their rifles back

[OakRidgeStars]

The money spent on just one of the Obama's extravagant vacations would go a long way towards rearming our SEAL teams. As it stands now, they might have to hold a bake sale.

http://nypost.com/2016/03/07/navy-seals ... go-around/

[Monkey]

I call Shenanigans.

Would like to understand the context of the conversation between the Rep and the SEALs. Some comments misconstrued during a Meet & Greet? Letter sent directly to the Rep, bypassing the chain of command?

Is it that they don't have enough rifles, or that the SEALs don't like the way rifles are issued?

WRT ammo, I agree that, as a force, we don't have enough to practice with. Rounds cost money, and in DoD, money makes the wheels go 'round.

[grumpyMSG]

I call Shenanigans.

Would like to understand the context of the conversation between the Rep and the SEALs. Some comments misconstrued during a Meet & Greet? Letter sent directly to the Rep, bypassing the chain of command?

Is it that they don't have enough rifles, or that the SEALs don't like the way rifles are issued?

WRT ammo, I agree that, as a force, we don't have enough to practice with. Rounds cost money, and in DoD, money makes the wheels go 'round.

I don't call Shenanigans, here in Virginia we had similar things happening. Equipment would be gathered from around the commonwealth, sent to to Fort Pickett be checked out and given to the next unit going to one of the sandboxes, it was especially bad early on after 9/11. Around the time of the fielding of the crappy digital camouflage, the Army began issuing equipment with what was called RFI (Rapid Fielding Initiative) They would give "sets" of equipment based upon the type/size of the unit being deployed. At one point the whole Infantry brigade received it's issue which included enough M4A1s for the whole brigade. As other units from VA (transportation, engineers and MPs) would deploy, State HQ would have an Infantry unit turn in their M4A1s and reissue them M16A2s temporarily. Those M4A1s would go to Pickett for an inspection and get issued to a deploying unit. Similar things would happen with trucks, if a unit deployed, their trucks might end up at another unit that was preparing for deployment but short trucks, while the actual owner was deployed.

In reality are/were funds being mismanaged? Virginia was notorious for hiding equipment shortages/obsolescence from big Army, they had an overage if full time officers/ senior NCOs and paid for them somehow and you can bet it wasn't with Commonwealth's funds. I imagine that there are some of the same hokey bookkeeping going on at SOCOM. Commanders probably had their own pet projects that they wanted to move forward and slid funding over from other places.