Sixteen military transport planes bought by the United States government for the Afghan Air Force (AAF) at a cost of nearly $500 million were recently destroyed by the Afghan military and sold for scrap parts at around six cents per pound, prompting a government inquiry to determine why millions of taxpayer dollars were wasted on the ill-fated program.
The Department of Defense purchased for the AAF a total of 20 Italian-made G222 military transport planes at a cost of $486 million. However, the fleet was grounded in March 2013 “after sustained, serious performance, maintenance, and spare parts problems” were discovered, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).
After sitting unused for some time on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport, the Afghan military decided to destroy 16 of the planes and sell the scrap metal for roughly 6 cents per pound, according to SIGAR, which has launched an investigation to determine how such a large amount of taxpayer dollars were wasted on the fleet.
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Six cents a pound for aircraft aluminum? Somebody got a deal and is now making a huge profit. Wonder how many hands are being greased in the process.
ReplyDeleteYet another investigation into gov't waste, fraud and deceit. What's going to happen with this one? Not a GD thing, just like most of all the rest. No one will be held accountable and no one will be fired, charged nor even reprimanded. And, they wonder why there's talk of uprising and civil war in America.
ReplyDeleteThose GD Democrats are killing us and our economy. They waste money on everything and know one has to answer for it.
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