[mykroar]

Awesome use of tax dollars. The story appeared to say Afghanistan destroyed the planes, but later says: “It has come to my attention that the sixteen G222s at Kabul were recently towed to the far side of the airport and scrapped by the Defense Logistics Agency,” SIGAR head John Sopko wrote in a letter to the U.S. Air Force that was released on Thursday.

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muslims add value to everything they touch...

[Fido969]

I’d give them 7 cents.

[Vigilanteman]

Sort of sums up the policies of the BO administration . . . We have a kleptocracy; Afghanistan has a kleptocracy. The only difference is that we have more that can still be looted.

[PLMerite]

So did the Afghans screw them up, or were the planes Italian junk from the start?

[USNBandit]

Horrible. The Coast Guard could use these aircraft.

[BRL]

What they really wanted all along were toyota pickups with machine guns.

[The Sons of Liberty]

U.S. Destroys $500M Planes, Sells for 6 Cent Scrap

Another Distinguished Graduate of the School of 0bamanomics.

[Kirkwood]

No bias in the title.

[exit82]

Half a BILLION dollars flushed away, for seventh century Muslims.

And we borrowed that money from China too.

About one week after we leave Afghanistan, the Taliban will be in control.

What a waste.

[C210N]

Afghani military just emulating Øbola’s wildly successful Cash-for-Clunkers program.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I hear they tried to give them to county police departments first . . . .

[McGruff]

20 Italian-made G222 military transport planes cost of $486 million

Geez, made by Ferrari?

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Resolute Conservative]

I thought they were using them to haul their opium harvests.

[rdcbn]

The G222 is a nice aircraft, sort of like a mini C-130.

The US Air Force successfully operated a fleet of about 20 of these in the 1990’s.

There is no reason they could not be supported now especially since the engines are American GE turbo props, the Props are American Hartzells, the avionics are American and much of the small parts and actuators are American as well, nor is there any reason to scrap them.

Something is way wrong here

[Blood of Tyrants]

You buy them clothes and send them to school and what do they do? They tear out the pages of the books and wipe their behinds with them. What else should we expect from 7th century barbarians?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

There is no clean end of the turd known as the middle east for the US to pick up. None. IMO, when the Arabs or whomever say the US should get out of there, it’s the best advice ever given to an infidel.

[elpadre]

and the aircraft were purchased from Italy when the USA workers are out of work.

[Future Snake Eater]

We’re destroying all kinds of equipment over there right now. Due to the arbitrary, close-in deadline for us to evacuate Afghanistan, we held a sale of equipment deemed too expensive to haul back to the States. Since everyone knew of our deadline, the sales that took place were last-second to get a deal on the equipment. Everything else we’re destroying in place.