Military shuts down fast food in Afghanistan - "It's not an amusement park"

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Forget it, this is a whole new ballgame, we've never fought a war like this. Trying supply units fighting an insurgency in isolated areas, with little or no usable infrastructure, one precarious land line, trying to maintain a shaky coalition, and get every seriously wounded soldier to Germany as quickly as possible, creates a tremendous logistics nightmare. Virtually everything that moves, moves by air.

And that is the bottom line of my points. Did H. Fuck Up? sure? did they over charge? Sure. Did the system allow them to do it in the way it was structured and were they prepositioned to take advantage of it? Sure. But, in the end, did they provide the service that allowed us to get the job done? Fucking eh. I am not here to make excuses for that corp, whom I believed ripped off the US Gov billions of dollars, but you know what? No one else was there to do what they did, provided the service that they did, in a timely fashion that they did.