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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
We had 1995 Chevy Lumina Mini Van but we couldn't find parts as simple as track for the door windows. Ugh.
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Compare this to the US Army...during an bi-annual audit at a certain military base located in the state of Oklahoma, and home to the redleg branch of the service, my team and I had the pleasure of opening up some old warehouses, emptying them and getting to verify the count of the contents....included in this was, I kid you not, a rather large shipping crate that had been butted up against the wall, behind several large stacks. The markings were badly faded, so we had to open it. Inside the crate was a US Army M-1894A4 75mm Field Gun on a original Pattern 1917 carriage. It had been shipped to Fort Sill in 1918, had been stored ever since in this warehouse, lost from inventory.
I have seen M-1 Garands, M-1 Carbines, M-1 Thompsons, M-1918A2 BARs,
M-1919A4 LMGs, still in their original 1942 crates, still stored in QM warehouses. Crates of Korean War-vintage uniforms, C-Rations with 1941 dates, cases of toilet paper made in 1948 and the list goes on and on and on.
In a series of warehouses in Virginia, they still store Civil War-era artillery pieces (for use by the Historical section and the National Park Service, but how many 12-pounder Napoleons need to be stored for national security?).
After one particular audit, our running joke was that the US Army was prepared to refight all of its wars at once!