The US Air Force Has Spent $326,000 Replacing Broken Coffee Cups in the Last Two Years
Each specially designed cup costs approximately $1,280—and they keep breaking.
A website called Honor Country sells more than 50 different ceramic coffee mugs and insulated tumblers with the US Air Force logo printed on the side. The cost of each one ranges from $9.50 for a cup that has been wrapped in a stylish piece of denim to $36.95 for an insulated stainless steel travel tumbler that promises to keep hot beverages hot for a precise-sounding 2.4 hours.
Those are nice and everything, but this morning, some active duty airmen probably drank their morning coffee (or middle-of-the-night coffee) out of a mug that costs $1,280. How do we know this? Because the Air Force has admitted that its service members keep dropping them, and in the past two years, it has spent $326,785 to replace them.
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