Thermos - The Most Humorous Story of Government Waste

As a junior officer and platoon leader in Afghanistan, I personally sent over $30 million worth of vehicles and equipment off to be destroyed. This was just the gear I was responsible for as a low level officer. In 2013, the surge in Afghanistan was coming to an end. So we had orders to demilitarize our trucks and some of our larger weapon systems. We tried, but failed to save many of these property items by transferring it to our garrison property book.