What was the Pentagon thinking?!

[Texas Phil Peeno #50923]

Just saw this and turned my stomach bad. What was the Pentagon/Air Force thinking?

 

Article: Air Force dumps soldier remains in VA landfill

 

Video: Fox News: Remains of 274 Soldiers Dumped in Virginia Landfill

[Three Foot Johnson]

That's rather bizarre.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

..... so, ... who says they were actually thinking ... ????

[Subdeacon Joe]

"It would require a massive effort and time to recall records and research individually," Jo Ann Rooney, the Pentagon's acting undersecretary for personnel, wrote in a Nov. 22 letter to Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-N.J.).

 

Well, if it would "require a massive effort" sounds to me like you better get cracking, Ms. Rooney. There is NO excuse for this. Even if they were, as it seems from the article, unidentified fragments, there should be a better way. Maybe a receptacle for them at the Tomb of the Unknows. Or special gardens at the military academies. Something.