Sportsman's Guide could sell this stuff at a profit in six months.
Posted on 06/28/2013 12:29:40 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
The massive disposal effort, which U.S. military officials call unprecedented, has unfolded largely out of sight amid an ongoing debate inside the Pentagon about what to do with the heaps of equipment that won’t be returning home. Military planners have determined that more than $7 billion worth of equipment — about 20 percent of what the U.S. military has in Afghanistan — will not be shipped back, because it is no longer needed or would be too costly to send home.
That has left the Pentagon in a quandary about what to do with the items. Bequeathing a large share to the Afghan government would be challenging because of complicated rules governing equipment donations to other countries, and there is concern that Afghanistan’s fledgling forces would be unable to maintain it. Some gear may be sold or donated to allied nations, but few of them are likely to be able to retrieve it from the war zone
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al Qaeda attacked the Pentagon and WTC on 911,
and now the Pentagon does their bidding in Libya
and Egypt and Syria and a few dozen other places
as the DO"J" protects them with lawyers and weapons.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
Those that loose wars, loose their toys to the enemy. Just the way it is.
Obama is a looser.
So, tell me again why we are in debt as a nation again?
You could send a lot of UPS for $7 billion...
Sportsman's Guide could sell this stuff at a profit in six months.
Give it all to India.
Just an FYI, we had a prototype of a (sorta secret) thing over there, and when it was time to come back it took 5 or 6 guys three weeks to decontaminate it of the native crud.
It’s pretty labor intensive, but we don’t want Islamic kudzu or something coming back.
Metal recycling to some nearby country might work...!!!
India could always use some assistance against Jihadis.
Give it all to India.
Heck yes.
Nothing new here. We abandoned a huge amount of equipment overseas after World War 2.
Why don’t they melt the equipment down and use the metal to erect giant Christian crosses, Stars of David, and Buddha statues as a memorial to the Americans who died there? A giant statue of Porky the Pig would also be a nice gesture.
“Waste not....want not”.
The Israelis never throw anything away. I think they probably still have David’s sling in an armory somewhere. Can you put snow plows on those trucks in Afghanistan? There are uses.
You mean ‘lose’, not ‘loose’.
Way to arm Muslime Brother hood, courtesy of Zero and US taxpayers.
I think losing was important to Obama, the arming of his Muslim brothers was just a free perk.
Hey! That’s OUR stuff! We, the American taxpayers, bought it and paid for it. It should be brought back and given/sold to American citizens.
But this kind of waste is nothing new. After WWII, tons and billions of dollars worth of stuff were abandoned, or worse, dumped into the sea, in all theaters.
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