[Viennacon]

Terrorists are buying shovels en mass from Home Depot

[A CA Guy]

No, I hear the bad guys are driving and using all the equipment which was abandoned and turned over to them.

[nascarnation]

Never heard that. Ocean transport isn’t particularly expensive. But many other factors may have influenced the call.

[Red Steel]

If true, it’s a good place to hide the stuff out in the middle of nowhere in the featureless Iraqi desert.

[PGR88]

its possible - doesn’t it happen after all wars?

Remember, politicians don’t care about money, and most military managers do not look beyond the next approved budget outlays and what it costs to transport and maintain such equipment.

Remember the story about 40+ new Spitfires that were buried in Burma after WWII?

[shadeaud]

Thought these and other military designed vehicles were being given freely to all law enforcement departments in the U.S. That means every Barney Fife will be driving his own bullet proof, air polluting over sized road destroying ATV.

[oh8eleven]

Are U.S. Vehicles, Weapons And Supplies From Desert Storm Buried in the Iraqi Desert?
Yeah, right next to Saddam's WMDs - great hiding spot.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Some of Saddam's WMD's are buried there too.

I bet the jihadis can find them...

... or maybe they brought them in from Syria.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I don’t think they bothered burying them. The military abandoned hundreds (thousands?) of broken down and cannibalized vehicles and gave many more to the Iraqi government.

[Up Yours Marxists]

Does this help answer the question?:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/15/gear-galore-left-in-iraq-as-last-troops-pull-out/?page=all

Then again maybe not.

[FateAmenableToChange]

I think this is bleed-over rumor from a John Ringo or David Drake novel called the Last Centurion.

[dead]

It smells like the pitch for a new Markie Mark movie.

[SECURE AMERICA]

In every war we leave equipment behind of just destroy it because it is cheaper. I am sure we did so in Iraq.

[blueunicorn6]

“Desert Storm”

[colorado tanker]

I don’t know but I wouldn’t be surprised. We and the Brits did a lot of that after WWII.

[pabianice]

After WW I, the Army piled-up 1,600 American airplanes and set them on fire rather than ship them back to the U.S. They abandoned most of their animals. I had a picture of an Army horse, abandoned in knee-deep mud, dying. Horrible.

When the US Army Air Corps then asked for new planes, Coolidge reportedly said, "Buy one and let them take turns flying it."

[PoloSec]

I can speak for my battalion in Desert Storm, every piece of equipment we took, that hadn’t been lost or destroyed, we brought back.

[hoosierham]

A vet friend told he spent weeks burning supplies;they had a huge bonfire and he and others just pushed material onto the pile with bulldozers.He was allowed to ship a half or full dozen bags of goodies home,mostly uniforms, disposable razors and such.

[dangerdoc]

We brought all of our toys back but I was stationed with the marines and they don’t have the budget to throw things away.