The U.S. Navy spent more than $88,000 in 1987 — $222,714 in 2022 dollars — on a “bloodmobile” that was a “bloody mess for the Navy and for the taxpayers,” Democratic Sen. William Proxmire said in giving the military branch a Golden Fleece award.
The vehicle was “so poorly designed and so badly built that the vehicle can’t be operated safely, has numerous defects and has been gathering dust in a Bethesda Naval Hospital for the last three years,” Proxmire said in 1987.
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