In the Army, Resourcefulness is a Crime

The AP is reporting 6 US troops have been Court-Martialed for Scrounging Equipment. Apparently, inadequately-equipped troops deployed into the field - and by this I mean "we don't have enough trucks to do our job" kind of inequipped - caught scrounging parts from vehicles littered by a friendly forced who'd previously moved on, that kind of ingenuity used to be a good thing. Apparently, the US Military wants their reservists to scrounge only in domestic garbage dumps.

One man's garbage, another man's armour plating.

Oh. It's also been a full year since they captured the leader of this toothless nation they invaded.

As a resident in a neighbouring nation rich in oil, diamonds, clean water and vast forests, let me say I, for one, welcome our imminent American invader overloards.