Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Just so you know Date:   9/8/2020 6:23:21 PM

I think having worked with the defense procurement system, it gives you are real appreciation of the problems associated with the COVID crisis.  

I knew a general that headed up a parts procurement organization.  The Chief of Staff of the Army decided to change from hats to black barets and said "wouldn't it be great if they all had them for the 4th of July".  That then became a mandate and the general (who really was a great guy) found only one source that could meet that deadline and the company was in China.  So they got the barets and then someone realized that they were made in China - which of course wouldn't do.  The general got fired.  Sometimes you can be between a rock and a hard place.