Posted on 01/19/2015 3:31:10 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Some $500,000 in U.S. taxpayer money was wasted on a police training facility in Afghanistan that "melted" within four months of being built, a watchdog commission reported.
The report released by the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says findings show that a police training center’s dry fire range (DFR), which was commissioned by the U.S. government, began to disintegrate after its completion in 2012.
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You don’t suppose that nails and other valuable building materials were pulled out by the natives, do you?
The amount of money we waste is abdo-lutely stunning! We spend money on teaching African men how to wash their weenies after sex, On why lesbians are obese.This congress need needs to stop the cr@p! We need a true austerity budget!
dry fire range..?
Indoor facility that uses the Weaponeer?
Laser gizmos? Air soft?
Anyone know?
Doesn’t matter, ALL foreign aid is bribes.
The bribe was paid so the intent was fulfilled.
That’s good. It’s better than having it used to train terrorists, which was probably Obama’s original intention.
But it was made with environmentally friendly bio-waste so the intentions were good. < /sarc >
What the heck ... was it an igloo or something?
Billions of dollars were wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq, and worse, the lives of our troops. Invading and occupying those dumps was a colossal screw-up. We should have bombed the mountains flat and left, deported all Muslims from the US.
Our military strategy is being planned by Gen. Custer.
What’s a mere $500,000 to Uncle Stupid?
It costs more than that to send the King and Queen to NY City on Date Night.
Sand, water, and fly ash is not concrete.
What’s missing?
Portland cement. Add this last ingredient in the right proportion, it would last forever......
***Sand, water, and fly ash is not concrete.***
Fly ash from Wyoming coal, when wet, will set up almost like concrete.
Power plant bottom ash, when mixed with cement works nicely as concrete. The ash and clinkers take the place of sand and gravel.
Yes, fly ash and other ingredients are almost as good as Portland, but when you add the real stuff you have high strength concrete.
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