TYT: Military Selling Planes For Scrap Metal

[WhoIsNumberNone]

"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

[riversedge]

1. More precise Headline: Afgan Military Selling US donated Planes For Scrap Metal

[merrily]

3. I have often suspected that all headline writers work for the GOP or some variant thereof.

[zeemike]

2. Until we get the money out of politics they will keep robing us blind...

No truer words were ever spoken.

[trof]

4. DOD has 2,600 ACRES of defunct aircraft in Arizona.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_and_Regeneration_Group