Posted on 04/28/2022 8:56:47 AM PDT by rktman
It's no secret that President Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster but — months after the last military flight departed Kabul and left Americans to fend for themselves — Americans now have a better idea of how much equipment Biden's supposedly successful withdrawal left behind.
According a Department of Defense report that was required by Congress on the withdrawal and, more specifically, what wasn't withdrawn, there's $7.12 billion worth of military equipment now in Taliban hands out of the $18.6 billion worth of equipment given to Afghan forces that the Pentagon doesn't plan to retrieve or destroy.
CNN, which obtained the report, detailed its contents that "will serve to refocus attention on the chaotic and hasty" Biden exit from Afghanistan:
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Or people who are just fine with their blatant corruption and war-mongering in Ukraine.
I think the total value was in the 80-85 billion range.
I thought it was way higher than that?...
The only positive thing to this story is that most of the aircraft and vehicles we left behind were older versions that we would have scrapped anyway if we had kept them. None of our cutting edge top of the line equipment was given to the Afghan government.
It would not surprise me if Joe Biden got a 10% kickback from the Taliban - “for the Big Guy”.
This is exhibit one for the dishonorable discharge of every woke, tranny-, faggot-, green new deal-loving general in our military.
I worked with some guys who were contractors and went to the Middle East various times to do maintenance on military equipment. They had numerous amusing stories about the mechanical backwardness and carelessness and laziness of the people there. I expect much of the equipment will be unusable soon if it isn’t already.
It was.
Now $7B ??
By the time the midterms are here, it will be less that 1 Billion.
One of the many propagandists/deflection arms of this administration, and IT'S defense dept.
...like everything else, good luck finding an unbiased/uncontrolled reporting on this...or any other act of sedition/corruption.
Almost all the equipment was made for counterinsurgency. The worst loss I think were the helicopters.
There were many stories about the loss of lots of the latest versions of NODs and other night fighting equipment. A good set of Gen III NOD binoculars can run around $10K each.
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Or that we gained billions in the withdraw. 😋
Why do sites like Townhall use anything coming from CNN, unless they were trashing the information. But their headline gives no indication that is the case. Is Spencer Brown just an idiot, oe is the article actually worth reading? 🙂
oe should be: or 😋
I am willing to bet that a sizable portion of that night vision gear was unserviceable. They have no way to get the image intensifier tubes. Almost certainly not our most up to date model either.
We didn’t leave it there. The Afghans gave it up
We gave the equipment to the Afghans.
kinda like what we’re doing in the Ukraine, huh?
I dont know, I was just told it was the latest stuff. Why would they need more intensifier tubes if they were already packaged up and in store rooms over there for issue as needed?
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