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Originally Posted by The Colonel
However, those who were involved in British Army logistics around 1982 tend to note wryly that if the amount of material written off has having been lost when the Atlantic Conveyor sank had actually been aboard her, then she would have sunk without enemy action. Enemy action was certainly more readily accepted than accounting exceptions...
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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".
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After the Vietnam War, it was determined that helicopters were regularly being shot down carrying several times their maximum takeoff weight in items that often had no business being put on a helicopter going into combat. By sheer coincidence, it seemed to always happen to items with high values on the black market.