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Of course it will all have to be replaced costing even more.
“We’re making history doing what we’re doing here,” said Maj. Gen. Kurt J. Stein, head of the 1st Sustainment Command, who is overseeing the drawdown in Afghanistan. “This is the largest retrograde mission in history.”
In another section of the scrap yard, a massive grinder gobbled slabs of steel, turning them into small scraps. The debris is packed into U.S.-owned shipping containers that also have been deemed unfit to return home.
Last month, the Kandahar yard produced 11 million pounds of scrap that was sold to Afghan contractors for a few cents per pound, said Morgan Gunn, a Defense Logistics Agency employee who runs the site. Afghans use the scrap mainly for construction and as makeshift spare parts.
“Gold dust is what they call it,” Gunn said.
Reminds me of those ads Hollywood is running now about wanting to get rid of America's nukes. We have no idea how many we have, no inspections have ever been done in US or Israel, but it sounds good to lighten up - until you start thinking about what that entails. Where are you going to bury hundreds if not thousands of nukes?
Reminds me of those ads Hollywood is running now about wanting to get rid of America's nukes. We have no idea how many we have, no inspections have ever been done in US or Israel, but it sounds good to lighten up - until you start thinking about what that entails. Where are you going to bury hundreds if not thousands of nukes?
Store them in the basement of the White House, where else?
Of course it will all have to be replaced costing even more.
“We’re making history doing what we’re doing here,” said Maj. Gen. Kurt J. Stein, head of the 1st Sustainment Command, who is overseeing the drawdown in Afghanistan. “This is the largest retrograde mission in history.”
2) How much do you think those contractors are getting paid?
3) We've now told the Taliban and when we are leaving and that we'll destroy more than 200 million pounds of gear.
4) If we need to change our mind and send troops back in we'll be missing some stuff.
So, it looks like goodbye for sure but what if something goes wrong? I am glad we're not donating much to the Afghans since a small group of their army like to kill us. Best if it isn't with our gear.
Of course it will all have to be replaced costing even more.
“We’re making history doing what we’re doing here,” said Maj. Gen. Kurt J. Stein, head of the 1st Sustainment Command, who is overseeing the drawdown in Afghanistan. “This is the largest retrograde mission in history.”
Too bad there are no oceans, or we could dump it in the water, like we did in Vietnam. Some gear has been there for over 10 years, and makes no sense to ship it back and try to refurbish it. It actually saves money to scrap it.
Seven billion dollars worth of equipment scrapped in Afghan pullout
Yep.
Dubya should have had us out of there in 2005.
Instead, he started that stupid war in Iraq because Cheney told him would be a good thing to do.
We left billions in equipment there, too.
In the past 60 years, the military industrial complex always wins every war, and the American taxpayer always loses. Ike warned us. We wouldn't listen.
It's generally cheaper to buy new stock than retrieve and return.
correct it costs alot to fly out old Vehicles temp housing and gear that is used up and bit would cost more in jet fuel to fly it out since Pakistan will not let us use a convoy of trucks to move it through a Pakistan port and load it onto cargo ships.
So we have to fly it out with many loads using our fleet of heavy lift cargo planes and Russia is letting us fly in their airspace and land on their runways to a central spot at a Russian Airfield to be a temp Airbase that we will use to fly it out of and organize the co-ordinate the Airlifts so we make sure we keep everything together that is supposed to be together and not have a massive mess of stuff to sort out back here.
Since it is a 2-3 leg journey and we would getting our stuff out of Afghanistan ASAP then tearing it packing it up better in Russia to make the final legs of the trip and fly Right across Russia and then hop over to Alaska and unload.
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Seven billion dollars worth of equipment scrapped in Afghan pullout
