Military spends more to air condition tents than NASA’s entire budget

[iGGz]

Military spends more to air condition tents than NASA’s entire budget

Got to stay cool

Steve Anderson, a retired brigadier general who was Petraeus' chief logistician in Iraq, says that the Pentagon spends $20 billion a year just to air condition tents and temporary buildings in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's more than NASA's entire annual budget.

There's an easy fix, says Anderson: Spray tents with polyurethane foam. An existing $95 million contract to spray-insulate tents is providing $1 billion in cost-avoidance, Anderson says. But insulating tents instead of air conditioning them is still not official military policy.

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[Bruno]

At a loss for words to dislay my disgust at the waste at the ex of the military-industrial complex.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

It's a scam. No doubt. Better than $5k toilet seats in aircraft...

 

[kpfareal]

I've stayed in some of those tents. They are pretty cool at least...

 

[specsaregood]

Got to stay cool

There's an easy fix, says Anderson: Spray tents with polyurethane foam. An existing $95 million contract to spray-insulate tents is providing $1 billion in cost-avoidance, Anderson says. But insulating tents instead of air conditioning them is still not official military policy.

An even easier fix would be to not have troops somewhere that needed AC tents. I wonder why a contractor wouldn't think of that solution....

It's a scam. No doubt. Better than $5k toilet seats in aircraft...

The irony being that 99% of that 5k goes towards the secret NASA moon bases on the dark side.

 

[Danke]

That's cool.

I used to wake those guys up in the morning by flying over them with full after burners,

 

[iGGz]

I've stayed in some of those tents. They are pretty cool at least...

Really?

 

[oyarde]

Wimps , I am old school , no ac in the poncho I slept in......