Posted on 10/10/2014 6:47:16 PM PDT by Dallas59
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).
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No problem, the US government has an unlimited supply of money from the US taxpayer.
Somebody’s brother-in-law made a mint . . . .
Probably some party hack crony, too.
When is enough enough? When?
We have built bases across the country too. They strip and scrap them down to the wire.
“20 Italian-made G222 military transport.........grounded in March 2013 “after sustained, serious performance, maintenance, and spare parts problems”
And anybody should expect more from Italian technology? The whole country of Italy has “...sustained, serious performance, maintenance, and spare parts problems..”
As much as we are sure the scrap check went to an Afghani retirement mansion.....the question is also who the heckipoo in the US decided to spend $450mm+/- cool on Italian planes instead of good old US C130 iron.
I remember the good old US also bought a couple hundred million of Rusky copters instead of US because it was harder for the Afghans to screw up stuff that comes already pretty screwed up.
Doh!
I just now realized that these big foreign buys are to make the “allies” more supportive of US imperialism.
Now it figures. None of this stuff was ever intended to be used...it was payola for the Italians.
I thought from the beginning we should just quarantine the whole damn country. Let ‘em stew in their own juices.
Nothing I’ve seen since 2001 has convinced me otherwise. If (when) we leave, the whole edifice will collapse faster than even Iraq did.
Another cover up of a sting operation on taxpayer money. Some Democrat got richer.
Would be interesting to see who was behind the push to buy these aircraft initially for the Afghans, and IF it was initially for the Afghans.
Goat humpers have difficulty maintaining any device more complex than a belt bomb.
This will make anyone sick to their stomachs....$32,000 is what they got after only flying a combined 234 hours!
“The 16 G.222s delivered to Afghanistan were scrapped in the summer of 2014 by the Defense Logistics Agency.[26] After the U.S. spent $486 million to buy 20 C-27As, 16 were sold as scrap to an Afghan construction company for about $32,000; the planes were scrapped “to minimize impact on drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.” The four remaining aircraft are stored at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, with the U.S. seeking other interested buyers. From January to September 2012, the Afghan C-27A fleet flew only 234 out of 4,500 required hours.”
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeritalia_G.222#Operational_history
via DLA junks multimillion planes for Afghan Air Force, sells scrap for 6 cents a pound - Militarytimes.com, 9 October 2014.
It also says they were reconditioned....makes it even more of a payday for the Eye-ties.
Look up the C-27 and see what the US did with those. That was the newer version of these planes. We are totally out of control.
Well, they’ve aptly demonstrated that they never intended to actually fight. So why not sell their unneeded equipment and weapons?
Can somebody explain why we’re buying ITALIAN made planes? We can’t make them here?
Flying Fiats? Fix It Again Tony. Someone forgot to tell the Afghanis they had to make repairs.
I want a refund of taxes I paid while Obama is president! The Obamanation wasted $500 million of our dollars on these cretins, new planes sat on the tarmac and were chopped up for what? They could have put them on eBay and got more money!
How about enough of the nation building BS.
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