You heard about it before, but you know it was only the tip of an iceberg we will never fully comprehend, except in the form of the bill we’ll all be paying unto the next generation:

Instead, the suit alleges, KBR used the military’s supplies for its own football party

The Super Bowl incident occurred in January 2005, the suit said. “McBride witnessed a large amount of food that was ordered specifically for a Super Bowl party for the military” taken instead to the company’s lodgings. “About 10 large metal tubs full of tacos, chicken wings, (and) cheese sticks were taken from the military party site to a KBR camp for a KBR Super Bowl Party for KBR employees,” according to the complaint. A widescreen TV was also removed.

McBride worked 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, at Camp Fallujah’s recreation center, where the government was billed according to the number of soldiers using the contractor’s facilities, which included a weight room, video games, Internet cafe, a library and phone bank, the suit says. She alleges that KBR deliberately overstated the number of military personnel using its services by counting the same person several times. For example, a person who used a computer was counted as one. If that person went on the weight room, another count was added to the list of patrons.

“It wasn’t double-dipping, but triple dipping or even quadruple billing,” the suit claims.

Attorney Alan Grayson, who represents McBride, said “millions of dollars have been submitted by Halliburton for recreational services” not provided.

But here are the money quotes:

McBride was hired by KBR in 2004 as a “morale, welfare and recreation” coordinator at Camp Fallujah, a Marine installation about 35 miles west of Baghdad. She was fired the next year after making several complaints about KBR’s accounting practices, the suit says, and was kept under guard until she was escorted to an airplane and flown out of the country.

and..wait for it…

The Justice Department declined comment Friday on why it chose not to participate in McBride’s suit.

I guess our troops will just have to have their fun raping teenaged girls and drinking whiskey on duty.