Comments on: Army Awards KBR Yet Another Contract! You Must Be Kidding Me! http://mssparky.com/2009/02/army-awards-kbr-yet-another-contract-you-must-be-kidding-me/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ken@Home http://mssparky.com/2009/02/army-awards-kbr-yet-another-contract-you-must-be-kidding-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1600 Ken@Home Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:29:51 +0000 http://mssparky.com/?p=1501#comment-1600 Man, they had a shitload of fuel bags when we were there testing. And it was on the side of the highway in plain view. The guy running it said it used to have a wall of connex's surrounding it, but some Air Force guy had it taken down. Dumb shits. <strong>Ms Sparky's Response:</strong> Sometimes I wonder what the real agenda is for DoD. Maybe I'm just missing it! Man, they had a shitload of fuel bags when we were there testing. And it was on the side of the highway in plain view. The guy running it said it used to have a wall of connex’s surrounding it, but some Air Force guy had it taken down. Dumb shits.

Ms Sparky’s Response:
Sometimes I wonder what the real agenda is for DoD. Maybe I’m just missing it!

]]> By: Krash http://mssparky.com/2009/02/army-awards-kbr-yet-another-contract-you-must-be-kidding-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1597 Krash Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:28:52 +0000 http://mssparky.com/?p=1501#comment-1597 I didn't realize that KBR wanted back in Kuwait . . The fuel is brought from Kuwait to Southern Iraq by local companies, downloaded at the southern bag farm, which is run by KBR, and then distributed from there where needed in theatre. I was at the camp that had the southern bag farm for 20 months, and yes I worked in TTM. I know for a fact that all fuel is metered, tracked and reported to the "client" daily. That includes the fuel that is lost on the MSR due to insurgent attacks. All bases that the fuel tankers delivered to were metered. All movements from base to base required fuel tickets with the exact amount loaded on each truck, and the same was true for in-base movements. I don't know how KBR can be overcharging the military for the fuel when KBR doesn't pay for the fuel. The military pays for the fuel, KBR just transports it. I do know that the southern bag farm needed to expand the number of "bags" due to the increase of fuel moved on a daily basis, but didn't know that KBR needed a contract in Kuwait to accomplish this. It is my opinion that KBR will keep getting these low million dollar contracts in order to pay their fines for the Nigerian bribery, and they actually think that no one will notice that the work doesn't get done or that the amount of the contract is more than needed for the work required. Example is the Camp Adder contract . . that work was supposed to have been done in 2004. <strong>Ms Sparky's Response:</strong> Who was responsible for calibrating the meters? KBR or an independent agency? People have already been convicted for fuel fraud in Afghanistan. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/wfo041108.htm An ABC article on the story states: Sellman, Ward and co-conspirators not named in the indictment, falsified paperwork "showing that the drivers' trucks had delivered fuel to the airfield when, in fact, the fuel had not been delivered, and was going to be diverted for sale outside the airfield, to parties not authorized by the United States Government to receive the fuel," the indictment claims. KBR just doesn't have the management culture or corporate integrity to perform this kind of work. It's just do it till we get caught. Then we will throw someone at the bottom under the bus, pay the fines and move on like nothing happened. IMHO I didn’t realize that KBR wanted back in Kuwait . . The fuel is brought from Kuwait to Southern Iraq by local companies, downloaded at the southern bag farm, which is run by KBR, and then distributed from there where needed in theatre. I was at the camp that had the southern bag farm for 20 months, and yes I worked in TTM. I know for a fact that all fuel is metered, tracked and reported to the “client” daily. That includes the fuel that is lost on the MSR due to insurgent attacks. All bases that the fuel tankers delivered to were metered. All movements from base to base required fuel tickets with the exact amount loaded on each truck, and the same was true for in-base movements.

I don’t know how KBR can be overcharging the military for the fuel when KBR doesn’t pay for the fuel. The military pays for the fuel, KBR just transports it.

I do know that the southern bag farm needed to expand the number of “bags” due to the increase of fuel moved on a daily basis, but didn’t know that KBR needed a contract in Kuwait to accomplish this.

It is my opinion that KBR will keep getting these low million dollar contracts in order to pay their fines for the Nigerian bribery, and they actually think that no one will notice that the work doesn’t get done or that the amount of the contract is more than needed for the work required. Example is the Camp Adder contract . . that work was supposed to have been done in 2004.

Ms Sparky’s Response:
Who was responsible for calibrating the meters? KBR or an independent agency? People have already been convicted for fuel fraud in Afghanistan. http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/wfo041108.htm

An ABC article on the story states: Sellman, Ward and co-conspirators not named in the indictment, falsified paperwork “showing that the drivers’ trucks had delivered fuel to the airfield when, in fact, the fuel had not been delivered, and was going to be diverted for sale outside the airfield, to parties not authorized by the United States Government to receive the fuel,” the indictment claims.

KBR just doesn’t have the management culture or corporate integrity to perform this kind of work. It’s just do it till we get caught. Then we will throw someone at the bottom under the bus, pay the fines and move on like nothing happened. IMHO

]]> By: Ken@Home http://mssparky.com/2009/02/army-awards-kbr-yet-another-contract-you-must-be-kidding-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1595 Ken@Home Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:58:04 +0000 http://mssparky.com/?p=1501#comment-1595 I worked at that fuel farm when I was in Kuwait. It's a fuckin' nightmare. The grounding situation there is so fucked that they have the TCN's pour buckets of water on the ground rods and ground points for the trucks everyday to keep the readings down. Not to mention they've got indoor rated wire run underneath wooden pallets and exposed in some places outside run from trailer to trailer. I worked at that fuel farm when I was in Kuwait. It’s a fuckin’ nightmare. The grounding situation there is so fucked that they have the TCN’s pour buckets of water on the ground rods and ground points for the trucks everyday to keep the readings down. Not to mention they’ve got indoor rated wire run underneath wooden pallets and exposed in some places outside run from trailer to trailer.

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