The US handed over the Camp Kearney base in Paktika Province to the Afghan government in 2014, with an estimated $8 billion in equipment still inside.
Today, the estimation is that about $1 billion worth of equipment is left.
So what happened between then and now that cost the site about $7 billion?
Mass looting.
The provincial governor says that former governors, local mayors, MPs, and commanders have all had a go at the site, and everyone has been entering the base and taking anything that isn’t nailed down.
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It happens every time we abandon a base. What's troubling is how much of it is used against us.
ReplyDeleteAnd it would have cost us more than 8 BILLION to have our own military bring it back? I do not believe that for one minute!
ReplyDeleteI do!!! Executive branch incompetence and congressional branch kickbacks. Ive seen contractora hose the government for over $60k just to paint and install carpet in a facility with about the same square footage as 2 residential homes.
DeleteAfghanistan has always been CORRUPT. Who didn't know this. All those MUSLIM POS can't be trusted. Most of the military officers are a POS. They are just men from influential families that want to be politicians. How many great officers have been booted our if the military because they haven't been promoted on track?? Because Mommy and Daddy didn't have any push like the POS that are 4 star generals today??
ReplyDeleteIt's what the Muslims do, they loot and steal from each other. This should be no surprise.
ReplyDeleteIts what muslims do huh. Meanwhile you clap as Trump nominates a man who created mandates that steered statewide business directly to his wife's company. Hmmmm
DeleteGo back to CNN. Obvious you have ATTENTION DEFICIENCY.
DeleteNorthwest Woodsman: Our politicians, which include military personnel above the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, never learn. Same exact thing happened in Vietnam over forty years ago. My aviation unit was one of the last to leave country in 1972 and we got to witness all of the equipment left behind that was both given to the Vietnamese or looted by them. Everything from office equipment, tools, vehicles, and even sheet metal roofing was looted by them. The other glaring similarities were the training and support given to build up their ability to defend themselves. All a total failure. When the North Vietnamese made their final push into the south in May 1972, the south Vietnamese dropped their weapons, stole every vehicle that eas was operational and fled. I personally watched convoys of military vehicles loaded with ARVN troops, civilians, women, children, pigs and chickens heading south as fast as they could to escape from the North Vietnamese onslaught.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, I flew my last mission, survived and was evacuated just weeks before the collapse. Third world people are not reflections of us. They have different values, priorities and attitudes that our upper levels of command and politics do not understand because they have led protected lives and have never lived among those people. Afghanistan is a mirror reflection of what happened in Vietnam.
Probably encouraged by a mayor like in Baltimore, "Give them room to loot and burn" were her words!
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ReplyDeleteYou must be a liberal. You take the subject at hand and turn it into a President Trump thing. WTF does looting a Military Base in Afghanistan have to do with President Trump?My God, get over it he won without any collusion!!!