My buddy told me that the U.S. marines in afghanistan once misplaced one of their fancy encrypted radios (or it might have been one of the keys to their fancy encrypted radio) so all radio communications were suspended until the next scheduled rotation.
Battery ran out? Left one behind? Throw them all away and visit the quartermasters' Idiocracy/MIC version of Costco to pull another 100 pack off the shelf at a cost to the taxpayers of mere millions. Oh and F-35B's and Blackhawk turbines? just chuck those like Kleenex. My mom worked in civil service for the Navy and $20k parts in the '70's went "missing" and "lost" all of the time. Then there's a USAF Major I know who became unpopular for suggesting proper maintenance rather than ruining/replacing turbines might be a better approach (likely some sort of maintenance/HQ personnel-vendor kickbacks, MIC FTW).
