If you read down to the bottom of the article, you will find that the Ammo is going to the Fisheries Dept. The Problem is, the Weather Service and the Fisheries Dept. is under NOAA, so the Supply People screwed up the order.
Now why does the Fisheries Dept. need Ammo? Why, for the Fish Police, of course.
But the Fish Police are a Legitimate LEO Dept., especially since some of "Those" Foreign Fishing Boats will come into protected Waters and illegally harvest hundreds of thousands of Dollars of Fish and take them back home. Also, some American Fishing Boats will engage in Poaching. Weerd Beard has more details on this kind of practice. But it's Legit, not some "Vast Conspiracy."
I reserve the right to delete patently offensive comments. Or, really, any comment I feel like. Or I might leave a really juicy comment up for private ridicule. Also spammers.
You can always offend hippies in the comment section. Chances are, those will be held up as a proper example...
46,000 isn't much, I guess. Could be just practice stuff for one small set of security guards.
ReplyDeleteI heard that's a clerical error. So they accidentally ordered 46,000 rounds of ammo instead of, um, notepads?
ReplyDeleteIf you read down to the bottom of the article, you will find that the Ammo is going to the Fisheries Dept. The Problem is, the Weather Service and the Fisheries Dept. is under NOAA, so the Supply People screwed up the order.
ReplyDeleteNow why does the Fisheries Dept. need Ammo? Why, for the Fish Police, of course.
But the Fish Police are a Legitimate LEO Dept., especially since some of "Those" Foreign Fishing Boats will come into protected Waters and illegally harvest hundreds of thousands of Dollars of Fish and take them back home. Also, some American Fishing Boats will engage in Poaching. Weerd Beard has more details on this kind of practice. But it's Legit, not some "Vast Conspiracy."
Yep, Les got it in one... :-)
ReplyDelete"What NWS person is armed with a .40?"
ReplyDeleteA naked one who's not work safe?