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Re:The US Marines' Love Affair with 3D Printing by unit91 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @02:07PM (#16578272)
Well, there's a huge difference in the mindset of deployed grunts vs stateside red-tape laden behemoths.

When you're deployed and something important breaks, you have a BIG problem. The impact is usually somewhere between you being absolutely miserable for weeks to costing you your life. When you're stateside and something important breaks, you have a reason to expand your empire at next year's budget meeting.

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Re:The US Marines' Love Affair with 3D Printing by Pigo on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @10:11AM (#16584834)
It's just a shame most people don't know that there is such a difference. I wouldn't feel so bad if all that money was going to important things. But I witnessed so much waste, and so many people who do literally nothing but wait for retirement. It's upsetting that that money doesn't go to the soldiers who need it.
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