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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
I remember a similar story from a supply sergeant at a US Army depot back during Desert Shield / Storm. They were quite happy to have a chance to fix up all the items that had mysteriously gone missing as having been "expended in combat".
I imagine that if I looked, I'd find that same story somewhere in Tacitus or Xenophon.
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The ObSF here is "
Allamagoosa" by Eric Frank Russell, of course, where such an attempt goes horribly wrong.