There is so much fraud and deception in the CANG. While I was in the CBWTU, I was assigned to sign in with the 40th ID in Los Alamitos daily M-F. I was not even in the guard, but my PSGT with the CBWTU knew a 1SGT there so he thought it would be a safe place for me to hang out for accountability.
One day, I was asked to go get a trash liner from the supply office and I noticed a pallet full of close combat optics (CCO's) and thought to myself, these are going to walk away if they do not get locked up.
Sure enough, one day a few months later the DHS, FBI and OSI showed up, gathered everyone up and began an investigation. They had found out that some Specialist was selling them on eBay so they went to arrest him. Ironically he had also stolen a vehicle from the unit and was using it to flee because someone tipped him off.
Of course, somebody has to be the scapegoat so the recall the Supply Sergeant off of con leave and request to do a complete inventory of the property book. Well, it turns out that there was a change of command just a few months prior, so there was a supposed 100% accountability, however shit for the unit was all over the State.
Rather than admit that the change of command inventory was pencil whipped, they chose to do a statement of charges on the Supply Sergeant and hit him with the entire property book (well over 8 million dollars) which was technically incorrect, because there was a warrant officer who was the property book owner.
Nevertheless I took it upon myself to assist the Supply Sergeant to do a physical location inventory of each and every item that was on the book. We had to take a picture of the item in its location, with the serial number, property book line item number and the description of every single item belonging to the line item.
What I found most ironic about the whole situation was that 1.) they allowed someone who had a statement of charges to self inventory everything that was missing and 2.) the statement of charges even included the friggen computer that was used to write it.
It took about two months to complete the inventory and in the end, the unit had about 20 binders full of photos for every single item they had.