Okay this one is important. So I need you to pay attention. I am now on one of the military bases here in country. And I see the source of most of our problems here. I know what you are thinking; I have spent a great amount of time in Afghanistan, so why didn’t I have the inside track a while ago. It is because I didn’t have access to this information a while ago. Or maybe it was that I was so used to it, that I hadn’t had a different experience to compare it to.
So here we go, this proves the military is wasting resources and hurting the war effort. What am I talking about? Single ply toilet paper, yes I said it, single ply toilet paper. What the hell? Seriously, what were they thinking? Don’t give me some crap about wanting to save money; the Army isn’t the best penny pinching organization out there.
In fact they are all about wasting money. When an artillery general came to one of the major bases in country the arty unit there fired rounds all day long. It was a sustained rate of fire all day long to give the general a semi. Each 155 round costs a few hundred dollars, that money could be better spent on two ply toilet paper.
Whatever happened to MWR? Morale welfare and recreation, I think that some good toilet paper would be good for morale. Why are you having solider deployed to a combat zone suffer needlessly? This is a serious problem. Now it wouldn’t be a big deal, except that we have better TP at the camp my company has. And they are buying local TP. How is that possible? How are locals getting better stuff then soldiers deployed in defense of our great nation? We need to fix this problem, and fast. Lives may depend on the this.
Think about it, a soldier is not concentrating one doing his job, or scanning his sector because his butt is a little itchy. Since he is distracted by his uncomfortable bottom, a thousand enemy are able to sneak by his outpost and infiltrate the base and beat everyone to death with socks full of pennies. I am not sure where they are going to get pennies, but it could happen. And who wants to be hit with a smelly Taliban sock?
You think it won’t happen, but that is how they are. We never think something will happen until it does. We need to do something before it is too late. Spend the extra few bucks, give the soldiers two ply. Don’t they, the defenders of freedom, deserve it? Who knows how many lives it will save? If I get hit with a smelly Taliban sock full of pennies I am going to be very pissed off. Do it for me, do it for your country, and for the love of God, do it for the soldiers.
