We received this notice regarding our story earlier this week on the ATK 5.56mm ammo award – CORRECTION: April 3, 2012 — Due to a processing error in the Army’s automated reporting system, the award amount for contract W52P1J-09-D-0027, awarded to Alliant Techsystems Operations, L.L.C., is corrected from $2,541,000,000 to $122,601,783.
That’s a BIG difference. We were wondering how much ammo $2.5 Billion would buy.
“how much ammo $2.5 Billion would buy.”
Just enough.
That would be a weekend for me… OK, a long weekend
It would be nice to know how many rounds we get for our taxpayer dollars.
it would also be interesting to know how much ammo actually gets chambered and fired by military personnel in training/combat versus that which ends up in their garages and the garages of their friends and business contacts…
I can only speak to my experience, which was a while ago, but they’re pretty strict with accountability during training, even to spent brass.
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