Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
We were flushing that crap out of the supply system in the late 80's: maybe the Navy were more paranoid about fires than the Army. I imagine DLA/supply sorts offered the Army the old "when we use up all the 5606 in the system you can order it under the same NSN and get 83282 ..." attrition based supply, flight safety be damned, DLA attitude. DLA still sends non conforming parts to the operating forces ... some stuff never changes.
We were also burning JP-4 (More than 1/2 gasoline) while you guys were using JP-5. It's definitely fair to say the Navy was a little bit more concerned about fire!
It's also fair to say the DOD as a whole had it's share of supply chain challenges. We used to put on allot of flight hours chasing down Blackhawk parts throughout Germany. But command didn't mind too much because any unflown flight hours in this fiscal year's allocation got subtracted from the next FY allocation. Government efficiency at it's finest!