A Fox News report alleges that the Air Force spent an exorbitant amount of money on specialty coffee mugs for the 60th Aerial Port Squadron at Travis Air Force base in California. The metal mugs have the ability to reheat beverages while air refueling tankers are in flight. As cool as the feature sounds, the mug’s shape makes it highly susceptible to shattering when dropped…which happens frequently. The cost of a single mug has doubled from $693 in 2016 to $1,280 in 2018. At the time of the report, Project On Government Oversight’s Dan Grazier said that the mugs’ intended purpose of aiding “the crew’s alertness by providing caffeine” could be similarly achieved “with a few cans of Red Bull.”
That was from Zuri Davis at Reason.
Is this a requirements problem or a pricing problem?
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| That’ll be a thousand bucks, please. |
These scandals have continuously popped up since the Grace Commission in 1984 found the DOD spent $7,000 for a special coffee maker.
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