Wasted Money...It's Being Spent Everywhere

I was stationed at Ft. Jackson SC, assigned to a Transportation Company. 10th Transportation Company, and the later 342nd Transportation Company. At Ft Jackson, know as Ft. Joke, I saw Tax Payers money being wasted all kinds of way out of the ass. Here are a few.

As a truck driver, I was given a 2. And a half ton truck. Know as a Deuce and a Half. An All Purpose Truck. I hauled soldiers, laundry and when I had an Off Post Commintment, Mortars. Those shits are fucking heavy. Good thing about hauling Mortars was, while traveling of the Post, you had to be armed. 45 across my chest and a M16 hanging in the cab of the truck. 8 clips, 4 banana and 2 regular for the M16. For the 45, 5 clips. You just wished some one would make a move on your cargo, Mortars. No luck, no one did.

It was a weekend, Saturday night about 8pm, I had no plans. The CQ, Charge of Quarters knocked on my door. He knew I was in there cause I was watching TV, I opened. He said he had an Off Post run, Shaw Air Force Base, in Sumter, SC, about 44 miles away. Go to the aiir strip and await further instructions.  Got in my truck heading off post, got to Shaw 45 minutes later. Went to the air strip, some high priced jet was taxing. Tarmac Control made hand signals and told me to come with him. I didn't know jets had cargo bays, hauled a create out and took it to my truck. Threw it up on the bed and it bust open...fuckin' lobsters. Tarmac Control told me to go back to Ft. Jackson, go downtown to The State building and deliver my cargo. Did, end of commintment. 2 days later, newspaper headlines... State Uses Army for Private haul of Lobsters. I was told by my Truckmaster, he is in charge of all trucks in the motor pool NOT to say anything. I didn't. But it was a big stinkfest though.

Right outside the motor pool, there is this road, its called Long Street. Its more than 1/4, less that 3/4's long and straight. My 3 years at Ft Jackson, I've seen then redo that road about 30 times...awaste of money.

Present day. I live about 2 blocks from I-95, entrance and exits, gas stations on all 4 corners, a mall Bartow Mall another block away. New York City's Department of Transportation are dumb fucks. They repaint the directional arrows right at a major intersection. 2 days later, they scrapped the road, that's right, right over the newly painted directional arrows. The put down a new layer of road and now they have to come back and repaint it again. See if I did something like that, I would bke fired.

A wasted of MONEY !!