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Title: Air Force No Longer Spending $10,000 on Toilet Seats, Officials Say
Post by: rangerrebew on July 13, 2018, 11:17:15 am

Air Force No Longer Spending $10,000 on Toilet Seats, Officials Say
 
Military.com 11 Jul 2018 By Oriana Pawlyk

After intense scrutiny on parts costs, the U.S. Air Force is 3D printing toilet seat covers for its cargo airlift planes instead of spending $10,000 to replace them.

"We now produce the latrine cover for the C-5 [Galaxy] using 3D printing," service spokeswoman Ann Stefanek told Military.com in an email Wednesday. "Using this new process allows us to make parts that are no longer in production and is driving major cost savings."

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/07/11/air-force-no-longer-spending-10000-toilet-seats-officials-say.html (https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/07/11/air-force-no-longer-spending-10000-toilet-seats-officials-say.html)

Title: Re: Air Force No Longer Spending $10,000 on Toilet Seats, Officials Say
Post by: rangerrebew on July 13, 2018, 11:20:38 am

I can assure you I never saw a $10,000 toilet seat on the aircraft carrier I served aboard.  In fact, if I had been charged $5 a throne session, over the time I was aboard, it would not have reached $10,000.  I guess the Air Force has better sh*t to spend that much on a throne seat. :silly: