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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel admitted on Friday that three U.S. nuclear missile bases in North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana were so badly managed that they had to share a wrench used to tighten warheads to the business end of Minuteman 3 missiles.
'How did they do it? They did it by federal expressing the one wrench around to each base,' Hagel told reporters Friday morning during a press conference called to introduce new system-wide reforms affecting the nation's entire intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal.
'They were creative and innovative and they made it work. But that is not the way to do it. We now have a wrench for each location. We're going to have two for each location soon.'
The three facilities in question house about 450 nuclear missiles.
originally posted by: Psynic
How many wrenches do you think should be floating around that have the capability of deactivating nuclear defences?
originally posted by: SonOfTheLawOfOne
I apologize if this was already posted but I didn't see it when I searched for "government wrench".
This isn't a post about left, right or middle.... it really doesn't matter, becasuse when this type of inefficiency is clearly demonstrated in a manner so incredibly ludicrous as seen in this case, only government can be blamed. This one example is a microcosm of what really exists in governments today.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel admitted on Friday that three U.S. nuclear missile bases in North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana were so badly managed that they had to share a wrench used to tighten warheads to the business end of Minuteman 3 missiles.
'How did they do it? They did it by federal expressing the one wrench around to each base,' Hagel told reporters Friday morning during a press conference called to introduce new system-wide reforms affecting the nation's entire intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal.
'They were creative and innovative and they made it work. But that is not the way to do it. We now have a wrench for each location. We're going to have two for each location soon.'
The three facilities in question house about 450 nuclear missiles.
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Let's all be thankful that FedEx does its job better than the government did and never lost that one wrench. Not one KIND of wrench... ONE WRENCH!
That's insane...
~Namaste
originally posted by: FyreByrd
originally posted by: SonOfTheLawOfOne
Let me put this in a realistic context. In the eighties there were complaints about 'government' inefficiency over specilized $800 hammers and $600.00 toilet seats. The government addressed that issue. Now not having enough of these high priced speciality wrenches is government inefficiency and the answer is to buy more.
So how one instance any more, or less, inefficient then the other.
Were the hammers and toilet seats cited in fact 'specialized'? Or wasn't the issue that these were commonly available items for which the government was allowing themselves to be bilked by suppliers?
originally posted by: Ceeker63
Hagel has got to be lying. With machinist at each of those facilities a wrench could have been made to fit, whatever missiles where stored there.
They shared one eye and one tooth, which they took turns using. By stealing their eye while they were passing it amongst themselves, the hero Perseus forced them to tell the whereabouts of the three objects needed to kill Medusa (in other versions the whereabouts of Medusa herself), by ransoming their shared eye for the information.[2]
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: links234
That's what Net Neutrality is. Or do you still believe that the ACA is about lowering your health care costs and giving you more choice? Anything they tell you is about the opposite of what they claim. The net will be neutral? What's the opposite of that because it's what you get.
You need working Internet? Well, remember they have one working server farm ...