Military Officials Wasted $36 Million Then Tried to Cover Their Tracks
Camp Leatherneck’s unused facility is a monument to bureaucratic incompetence
by MATTHEW GAULT
Camp Leatherneck is a large military base in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. The U.S. military built the base back in 2008 and it’s long been an important strategic location in the country’s south.
In 2010, Pres. Barack Obama ordered a troop surge in Afghanistan to deal with increasing violence and the Pentagon thought it might need more space at Camp Leatherneck. To handle the coming surge, it asked Congress for cash to build more buildings capable of housing 64,000 people.
While the request was still pending, then Maj. Gen. Richard Mills — the American officer in charge of the surge in Helmand — requested the cancellation of the project. The U.S. Marine officer had been to Camp Leatherneck, didn’t think the base needed the extra buildings and thought the surge would be long over before construction ended.
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