often you'll hear of gov departments overspending at years end - as you don't want a lower funding allocation next year. 'smoke em if you got em' type accounting in the dod that often means wasting ammo in 'training', putting hours on unused machines/vehicles idling in the parking lot, or doing pointless tasks to for man hours. the glowies budget allocated for x-hours of orb flybys - gotta spam the skies to keep that dod contract. spending billions per year of 'black budgets' legitimately is probably kinda hard - i don't blame them for procrastinating.
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