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| Subject: Whatever the statists touch turns to shit: $3 million waste? Patrol boats intended for Afghan forces sit in Virginia base Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:56 am | |
| Patrol boats U.S. taxpayers sunk $3 million on in 2010 that were supposed to beef up the Afghan National Police presence along its border are collecting dust inside a Virginia Navy base.
The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, released the report last Friday and said these eight rigid-hulled inflatable boats were at one time considered a priority for the Afghan forces. Afghanistan already utilizes four similar boats, and these eight were intended to deter smuggling on its north and west border, the report said.
The total cost of the eight boats -- including transportation and training -- was slightly more than $3 million, the report said. The Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, or CSTC-A, which includes multinational military counterparts, canceled the requirements for the boats, but the boats were nearly completed and shipped to the Cheatham Annex in Yorktown, Va., where they have remained since 2011, the report said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/13/3-million-waste-patrol-boats-intended-for-afghan-forces-sit-in-virginia-base/ _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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