In construction for the military, you have to make a bill of materials (BOM) for all projects. During deployment, you search up places like Home Depot and Lowe’s to see what everything cost, write down what you need and submit it to your contractor. Before submitting, you have everything priced out. Once the contractor gets ahold of it, prices increase by thousands. Was once a $5000 BOM, is now $10,000+.

As far as the shit that’s sitting over there, you have stuff that cost $100,000+ that’s been sitting for 5+ years wasting away in the sand and sun.

The military gets overcharged for everything and they waste a lot of the shit they order.