Originally Posted by
Chugalug2
Oranges and Apples, Tourist, as I suspect you well know. Can we not conflate tactical (or even strategic) decisions taken in war, that as you say gang aft a-gley, with decisions to save money at the cost of safety?
Wrong.
The military is given a budget.
That is a fixed amount of money.
VSO's decide what to spend it on.
Money spent on one thing cannot be spent on another.
Rightly or wrongly, VSO's decided to spend it on something else.
They didn't pocket it. They made no profit from it.
They made a decision to spend it in the area they thought it would do the most good for our forces.
Who knows, maybe the thing the spent it on saved lives or increased capability?
The fact that people died
does not necessarily make it the wrong decision.
It is unacceptable for civil company to have deaths in an effort to increase profit.
The same does not apply to the military where the equivalent of profit is operational capability.