Re:The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can
by strken on Friday June 23, 2023 @08:55AM
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An alternate explanation would be that their accountants used the average cost method, and the trash can got averaged with a bunch of actual E-3 Sentry planes, or expensive component systems, or something.
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This was the reason behind the $600 Hammer.
https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the...