Scrapping equipment key to Afghan drawdown

[ABX]

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Facing a tight withdrawal deadline and tough terrain, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds worth of vehicles and other military equipment as it rushes to wind down its role in the Afghanistan war by the end of 2014.

The massive disposal effort, which U.S. military officials call unprecedented, has unfolded largely out of sight amid an ongoing debate inside the Pentagon about what to do with the heaps of equipment that won’t be returning home. Military planners have determined that they will not ship back more than $7 billion worth of equipment — about 20 percent of what the U.S. military has in Afghanistan — because it is no longer needed or would be too costly to ship back home.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/scrapping-equipment-key-to-afghan-drawdown/2013/06/19/9d435258-d83f-11e2-b418-9dfa095e125d_story.html

[Ford289HiPo]

$7B is around the amount of equipment and rolling stock that was PDO'd to LN's or destroyed at Al Asad, Iraq. I would hate to see the numbers from Victory Base.

IIRC, we sent the Iraqi's 100 MRAPs and a bunch of SUV/pickups in late 2010 because someone forgot to cancel the order.

We need a "ping" capability. Allegra could chime in on this.

[EC]

$7B is around the amount of equipment and rolling stock that was PDO'd to LN's or destroyed at Al Asad, Iraq. I would hate to see the numbers from Victory Base.

IIRC, we sent the Iraqi's 100 MRAPs and a bunch of SUV/pickups in late 2010 because someone forgot to cancel the order.

We need a "ping" capability. Allegra could chime in on this.

Isn't she over there again at the moment? Pretty sure she said she would be by now.

[Rapunzel]

Isn't she over there again at the moment? Pretty sure she said she would be by now.

yes, she's over there........