This One $486 Million Blunder In Afghanistan Sums Up The Disaster Of Military Spending

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http://www.businessinsider.com/a-486-milllion-blunder-in-afghanistan-2014-10


The G222 fleet in Kabul, Afghanistan

Over a dozen transport planes that the US donated to the Afghan military were sold for scrap metal in yet another sign of questionable American policy in the country.

A set of high-level US government letters recently disclosed as part of a Pentagon Inspector General's investigation reveal that sixteen G222 military cargo planes were scrapped after years of poor maintenance and failed integration into the Afghan Air Force. The planes were part of a failed military aid package that ran a nearly half-billion dollar price tag for US taxpayers.

The aircraft were hardly used before being ground down and sold to an Afghan construction company for 6 cents a pound, or a total of $32,000.

The training of Afghan security forces is a huge challenge for the US, which is pulling most of its troops out of the troubled central Asian country at the end of 2014. Afghan soldiers are responsible for numerous "insider attacks" against coalition troops, including the assassination of a two-star US general in Afghanistan this past August.



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[Sherman A1]

1. Your tax dollars at work.

It's a shame that those planes could not be re-conditioned and given to some organization that could actually use them for something beneficial to mankind.