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DoD accounting is horrible. On September 10, 2001 Rumsfeld held a press conference talking about the 1,400 (something like that) accounting systems used by DoD. Many were purchased through normal funding bills where a Congressman puts in something for a constituent who’d written a program. They can advertise is as “Used by the US Military 
These systems don’t talk to each other.
I can’t remember what the day is called but there’s a day at the end of the fiscal year (September) when everything has to balance. It’s accounting, it has to balance. Journal entries are made. There’s no basis for them but everything balances.
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