That’s “our” equipment folks. This goes to show you that they could give two sh!ts about the taxpayer.
For instance, I could sure use one of them thar fancy generators for when the next hurricane hits.
More importantly, though, are the tons of military supplies like magazines, LBEs, up-armored Humvees, etc that we will be needing for the coming Civil War.
Just another move to ‘gut’ the military.
Obama is taking our enemies’ belief “that we will give them enough rope to hang us†to a new high!
Am I the only one here that doesn’t see this as a problem?
Look, if we want the Iraqi Army to be able to stand up to al-Qaeda, Iran, and Syria, then the sooner that we can equip them, the better. If it means giving them old hand-me-downs instead of shipping them back to the US where old equipment probably would have been recycled/sold as surplus anyway, that’s fine with me. In a perfect world, the Iraqi MoD would be paying market value, but considering that they are still in the developing phase, you can’t expect that yet.
The costs associated with returning or transferring such equipment is insanely prohibitive for all but the most expensive items. Packing up and shipping a 5kw generator, preclude any other option than simply buying a new one.
I’ve been on the shipping and receiving end of this equipment and it’s takes manpower, resources and money that would be better spent on new stuff (especially after a harsh duty cycle in the desert).
It got so bad that some equipment was simply “combat lossed” (ie, buried in the desert).
Nothing nearly as heartbreaking as watching the films of Hueys and Chinooks being pushed off carrier decks during the fall of Saigon.
Hey Uncle Sam! I could use a generator or extra vehicle!
There are literally thousands of cargo containers that are suppose to come back. Odd thing is that there 10,000 of thousands sitting idle all over Asia.
I am told that after World War 2 shiploads of jeeps and tanks were dropped in the ocean to save the cost of bringing them home, and to prevent their sale in the US from keeping automotive sales from being high.
So much for caring about our economy, saving money, and well, protecting our interests.
My Daddy still talks about the Cat dozers driven off the wharfs and piers in the south Pacific at the end of WWII.
He was a Seabee.
Aside from the cost of shipping them back, they didn’t want to flood the market with used equipment and depress sales of new dozers.
Let the Iraqis get what use out of the stuff they can.
Called booking out in the old days, leaving equipment behind. Damn, shows what the military command thinks of the tax payers hard earned dollars.