Posted on 06/20/2013 6:39:09 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The US is going to destroy about $7 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan because it would cost too much money to ship it home or because the gear wouldn't be of much use anymore, reports the Washington Post. That includes about 2,000 hulking MRAPs—mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles that cost $1 million apiece. The excess equipment is being turned into scrap metal.
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At least that’s 2000 armored vehicles that won’t be given to the Oppossum Hollow SWAT team.
What is the cost of buying a new one?
Why not give it all to the Chinese and declare debt. paid?
I know they did something quite similar at the end of World War II. Especially in the Pacific Theater, but my B.S. Detector is going off! Just because they say they are destroyed doesn’t make it so. A simple computer entry and they are destroyed and later on the “new” owners just stop by to pick them up.
So D*MNNED much waste and Fraud upon the Taxpayers of the United States.
so Cash for Clunkers was sort of a Beta Test....
Seems like it wouldn’t take too many 1 million dollar vehicles to contract with a shipping line to bring them back.
2,000 hulking MRAPs—mine-resistant ....”
they will send them back here to be used....or store them there until they need them....(?)
I hope the military has someone on hand to make certain this equipment is destroyed BTW. It would be tragic if it started showing up in Syria.
$7B sounds like a lot but at the current rate of QE that is less than 4 days deficit spending.
O*******bama wouldn't see it that way.
To be parked along the runways in Kabul, Kandahar and Bagram, next to the rusting Soviet equipment, which is probably sitting on top of 19th century era British equipment.
oh man! I wanna MRAP!!! who’d fight me for a parking space?
Just imagine the scrap value of the metals alone.
After WWII the Navy dropped brand new aircraft, fork lifts, bulldozers and million$ in other equipment into the ocean rather than bring them home to sell as surplus.
Most MRAPS won’t be coming home from Afghanistan
Apr. 18, 2013 - 12:55PM
" In recent years, the U.S. military has expanded its requests for Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, a more agile competing technology."
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20130418/NEWS/304180021/Most-MRAPS-won-8217-t-coming-home-from-Afghanistan
Cash for Clunkers. Spurs economy. Environmental friendly. Won't be needed in Syria. /s
Couldn’t he give the equipment to Al Quaeda or the Taliban or some other sworn enemy of US? This would be a very efficient means of advancing the Administration agenda of promoting America’s downfall.
Probably really sending the stuff to AQ in Syria.
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