The government is not required to spend funds on any goods or services procured by unauthorized personnel. Someone obligating the government without the proper authority may end up picking up the tab. Here, SGT Michael Bauder, equipment movement and control noncommissioned officer for Task Force Central, checks recently arrived storage containers with his paperwork at the Cameroon Air Force Base, Feb. 16, 2013, in Douala, Cameroon, Africa. Bauder was among U.S. service members in Task Force Central preparing for the start of Central Accord 13, a combined-joint aerial resupply exercise and medical resupply and evacuation exercise with Cameroonian, American forces, and observers from neighboring African countries. (Photo by SSG Amy Wieser Willson, North Dakota Army National Guard)
