I heard a rumor that the day before I reported aboard the USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633G) in 1975, someone threw 4,000 rounds of .45 caliber ammunition over the side in Holy Loch, supposedly because the boat had just switched from tommy guns to the M-16 and no one wanted to do the paperwork of turning in the extra ammunition.
But, I didn't see it happen myself.
However, as a defense contractor in Bangor, Washington State in 1993, I once saw a whole pallet of spare IBM computers, monitors, and printers sit on an outdoor loading dock for four months during the rainy season. Every day, I walked past that pile of expensive equipment, knowing it was being ruined. Yes, there was a roof over it, but it was exposed to everything else. I bet, by the time the pallet was sold by the pound as scrap, the insides of all-IBM equipment were probably fused together from the humidity alone.
But, I didn't see it happen myself.
However, as a defense contractor in Bangor, Washington State in 1993, I once saw a whole pallet of spare IBM computers, monitors, and printers sit on an outdoor loading dock for four months during the rainy season. Every day, I walked past that pile of expensive equipment, knowing it was being ruined. Yes, there was a roof over it, but it was exposed to everything else. I bet, by the time the pallet was sold by the pound as scrap, the insides of all-IBM equipment were probably fused together from the humidity alone.
