Military Selling Planes For Scrap Metal

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“Over a dozen transport planes that the US donated to the Afghan military were sold for scrap metal in yet another sign of questionable American policy in the country.

A set of high-level US government letters recently disclosed as part of a Pentagon Inspector General’s investigation reveal that sixteen G222 military cargo planes were scrapped after years of poor maintenance and failed integration into the Afghan Air Force. The planes were part of a failed military aid package that ran a nearly half-billion dollar price tag for US taxpayers.

The aircraft were hardly used before being ground down and sold to an Afghan construction company for 6 cents a pound, or a total of $32,000.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Pierre Bienaime / Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-486-milllion-blunder-in-afghanistan-2014-10

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