Mike Macgirvin
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Saturday, May 17 2008, 12:52 pm
Oct 26, 2005
Kilo. One thousand.
Kilo. One thousand. Except when it's computers where it's 1024 - which is the closest power of 2. But I'm not talking about computers today. I'm wondering what the production quantities are for body bags. Does the military buy them by the kilo? Or by the gross? We've used up 2K of them, or about 13.88 gross.

Somewhere in Iraq, there's a warehouse filled with shipping cartons full of body bags. Except it's not so full anymore. Doesn't matter what units they use to procure them. Either way, it's gross.

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