One of the biggest way to save money would be to change how funding is done as local levels. It used to be, and I assume still is, that whatever a unit didn't spend in a particular month would be deducted from the next month because, "obviously", it didn't need all that money. It used to be interesting to be at sea on the end of the month to see all the gear that went over the side so it would have to be repurchased to keep budgets up. An example, one morning I was relaxing on the fantail when 4 cooks carrying 2 boxes came by. The smell was awfully good, so I asked what they had. They had cooked steaks that they had to get rid of or lose funding. I asked what they planned to do with them, and they said throwl them over the side to the sharks. So, I told them to just set those bad boys next to me and when I was finished eating, I'd throw them over the side. I ate to my heart's content then sent them to the sharks. That was not an exception of the wasteful spending.
