European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Che4itng th4tkills by Dontate staff writer dangerous Mission. Pictures paratrooper leaping irom his plane Inlo enemy territory. And what happens a suddenly the Cord on his Chute snaps but not from enemy lire from irl endly cheating. Picuro 60mm mortar rounds plummeting Inlo Tho Middle Al a platoon at soldiers. Laughing and jolting one second they Are pulled away in a red dazzle of smoke and Light the next. When the smoke cleans it looks As ii the mad Bulcher has come visiting. The round a Friendly round has malfunctioned fallen Short. Tho mangled soldiers Are your own irp9, victims of Friendly Che Alinte picture he Armor polling on a battleship being made Oul of Interior Metal and what happens if an enemy Shell or missile rips Inlo it in the wrong place. The Boom would t to easy to larger he Hale easy to my with a cheating businessman s excuses about the need to maximize profits. Steve Lille lives with the Idna of such pictures turning into booming bloody reality ally he time. And he wants to word passed to men in the Field no piece of equip Mon is sacred. Just because it s supposed to be Madu right does t mean in  Little has seen Loo much evidence of supposed to equipment wearing Oul Long before its time of big solid things breaking into Lille dangerous pieces despite his Jawbreaker title assistant special agent in charge Dod office of the inspector general Defenso criminal investigative service Lille makes his Case simple. We Don l manlio create a Panto. Have everybody wondering whether his ride 3 about to misfire or his Lank going to fall apart in the Rwal five minutes. Most equipment Lunation the Way it s supposed to but Fri want soldiers Saittis Kliors and everybody out Thore to to Lorl la e problem thai is widespread and serious. We want to know in they re concerned thai their equipment is not working right tailing them in the clutch. Wearing Oul Loo quickly especially anything thai involves the safely of the troops. There s a lol of Dolosa contract fraud going on. It s happening All the Lima a lol of product substitution that results in substandard inferior parts and material going Inlo everything from the nuts and bolls of tanks to the stalling in hamburger  in lines of work whore people must depend on their equipment absolutely in can mean the difference Between ills and death. Soldiers in the Middle of a firelight Ean l afford to discover suddenly thai their equipment is a hunk of junk build no a Crummy piece of furniture it one thing in s a Gyp an inconvenience he says. Bui using shoddy material Mal jeopardizes the lives of people pulling those lives on the line fat their country does not rank High on Little s Tisl of ways to make a Buck. In this Veteran agent s eyes deliberately building bogus equipment is Light Down there in Ira cesspool with treason and sabotage especially in the making of lethal Aims he says. The line line of meeting Quality specifications can be deadly if it is not poached. For example something As Small As failing to chemically heal great us inside of a the stars and stripes wednesday january