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Originally Posted by Black Leviathan
It has a dusty storage area about the size of a small warehouse full of decommissioned equipment that can't be unloaded on anyone. WW 2 Radar Systems, MREs 30 years out of date, Cases of used Fatigues that aren't regulation anymore. There's so much of this stuff in any base that it's climbing the walls in back rooms. There will additionally be a room that's exclusively base equipment that has nowhere to go, desks-stacked-on-desks going back to WW1, portraits of former presidents, defunct state or core flags.
It has files, so many files, 5+ years of records of everything that has ever happened in that base, correspondence, service records, every transfer of every chicken wing. Rooms full of paper files.
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Some of that may be there because no one wants to do the work of turning stuff in for disposal, or worries that if they do someone will turn up demanding to know where it is. Which also a reason for retaining all those old paper records, just in case.
There are or at least were specific Air Force procedures and paperwork for turning in material FOB (Found On Base) which was there but the paperwork for exactly which sub-organization owned it could not be located.