Originally Posted by Moby Dick

Amen. Two true stories from a past life:

1. Lots of fuel dollars remaining in a VC-131H squadron. How did they get spent? Fly the plane out over the Atlantic, dump the fuel, come back and log the hours.

2. $100K left in the King Air account with 30 days left in the FY. Fighter squadron next door out of fuel with 6 weeks remaining. When I asked if we could transfer that fuel money to them the answer: "No, can't be done because they're funded out of a different pot of money."
That resulted in a month of "instrument trainers" from SoCal to ACV for a can of soda and return (no fuel dump system on a King Air!).

Upside: Logged a boatload of multi-engine TPIC for my airline job! Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer.

And the Pentagon INSISTS we can't cut their budget. HA!