Our bureaucracy is so staggeringly bloated that even the departments which have a constitutional purpose can easily lose several times the 32 million mentioned in this story and not even notice.
I can tell you where it went.
Boob belts. Vacations. Golfbags. Waffles.
600 American mostly white men dead and the GD Pentagon would not even attempt an effective counter mine program. They were too busy catering to the Islamist. Then there were the US soldiers in Iraq desperately welding armor plates on their crappy humvees....4500 dead Americans and 30,000 wounded in the worthless Iraq invasion. Hell yeah someone needs to be held to account. SRLD, Short Rope Long Drop!
600 American mostly white men dead and the GD Pentagon would not even attempt an effective counter mine program. They were too busy catering to the Islamist. Then there were the US soldiers in Iraq desperately welding armor plates on their crappy humvees....4500 dead Americans and 30,000 wounded in the worthless Iraq invasion. Hell yeah someone needs to be held to account. SRLD, Short Rope Long Drop!
Why is anyone surprised? Our troops have been screwed over by our government for a long time. Don’t give Bush a pass. He and his pals are the ones who sent our guys into an impossible situation with no real objective in the first place.
Anyone with any knowledge of history could see that these invasions would turn into a long slog with no upside for our country. We have replaced one set of thugs with another, enriched and emboldened our enemies, wasted billions of dollars, put Democrats in office because people are tired of the wars, allowed the government to infringe on our rights and privacy, and most important, lost a lot of good people. There is no end in sight, and the idiot politicians want to invade Syria now! It’s a travesty.
I am not anti-war. I am anti-stupid war.
I am certain that some anti IED devices were deployed. Suspect they were electronic in nature. Don’t know the details, but know it was done.
How effective they were? Am not sure.
Grates? Grates?
Did any of these idiots every hear of Bangalore Torpedoes? Grates will not do a thing to stop these or any other similar ingenuities.
The Afghans have learned very well how to harvest the Yankee Money Tree.
To the US elite, American troops are mere cannon fodder to be used and wasted on whatever foreign policy adventure the government decides to engage in.
So no amount of neglect surprises me in the least. The ultimate slap-in-the-face is when US forces are sent on these stupid, pointless missions in the first place.
Not a very accurate article. I know this from first hand experience in country. We tracked this very well and assisted at times. The effectiveness is debatable with several factors contributing to the outcome.
The very brief but interesting comments indicate the system was deployed. Its deployment being ‘tracked’ at staff echelon level. ‘Effectiveness is debatable’ is a damning comment. This is a currently serving officer who is going to be very judicious in choosing his words to protect his career.
Does anyone in Freep land know how this system was supposed to work and are willing to discuss it and discuss its problems?