is erasing history that will never be recovered. They are doing it in all agencies. The Pentagon alone is destroying the history of women and minorities in the military.
We will never get it all back.

approaching third world, shithole status as a nation.
Tr💩mp can not die fast enough for me.

When the military "tosses" obsolete equipment, furniture, manuals or other property, it goes to auction if they think it might have some worth. Ammo and Weapons are sold to foreign nations or given to National Guards or official "police" agencies. Missiles or ammunition that is more complex might be sent back to a manufacturer for upgrades or repurposing of parts and components into newer systems.
As for records, they've gone on microphish or electronic records if they have potential research, tactical, or historical value. The historic records they don't have copied are typically sent to interested museums or research facilities; there's always some organization interested in the R&D or battle orders/movements for various systems or operations.
Why just pay to throw something that has potential value into a landfill that others might pay good money for?

I hope that NASA might do the same; that they've let "the community" know over the past year that they're closing their library down and made what information hasn't been transferred to electronic archive or copied available for bid or dibs.

You want to go to space, you gotta pay Musk.

"specialised equipment and electronics designed to test spacecraft have already been removed and thrown out."

Trump probably had a free-for-all, going-out-of-business, give away. That's very expensive equipment. It probably went to Musk, Bezo, Jared Isaacman or any other filthy-rich POS who wants a hand out from our tax dollar expenditures.

Keep paying your taxes everyone so that we can fund all these billionaires.

Like the Chinese government perhaps

Almost unbelievably, at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. It was a huge library consisting of science and engineering books which was discarded and dispersed. An incalculable loss AFAIC.