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New Vehicle Maintenance alone...
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"...SIGAR found that capacity-building issues endemic to the ANA have contributed to the failure to create an organic Afghan vehicle maintenance capacity. While AISS used AMTs to train the ANA on vehicle maintenance, challenges, such as a low literacy rate in the ANA, poor training attendance, low retention of trained ANA personnel, and a limited pool of ANA managers who possess the skills necessary to manage the supply chain and maintenance shops hindered AISS’s efforts."

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"CONCLUSION

The failure of AISS to meet its most basic contract requirements and program objectives, and DOD’s inaction to correct contractor deficiencies and seek repayment of funds, has resulted in not only the waste of U.S. taxpayer funds but in the need for a new maintenance contract that is projected to cost more than $1 billion over the next 5 years"

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(from this document - 28 page PDF)

https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/audits/SIGAR-16-49-AR.pdf


Of course the contract will probably have modifications and changes over the next 5 years, causing the amount to increase.



And, if you have the time, here's a decent good book about similar shenanigans in Iraq:

https://www.amazon.com/We-Meant-Well-American-Project-ebook/dp/B004ULOJA2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473861528&sr=1-1&keywords=we+meant+well#nav-subnav
New Re: Vehicle Maintenance alone...
One review there..
"Long after the self-serving memoirs of people named Bush, Rice, and Rumsfeld are consigned to some landfill, this unsparing and very funny chronicle will remain on the short list of books essential to understanding America's Iraq War. Here is nation-building as it looks from the inside—waste, folly, and sheer silliness included."—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War
Nice sleuthing: extirpating what seems an ept, memorable summary of this Fiasco [Title of another book du jour] amidst the, by now many contenders for a summary of that madness.

(It seems we've been flummoxing observers around the world with ourJ-j-jingoism, since near the beginning.) They remain flummoxed because--every once in a while
--the USA DOES do something intelligent, courageous and world changing [Marshall Plan comes trippingly into spotlight..]
It's just All those Other times, which accurately portray [Alex's SIG, say] ..which stick with the mumbling masses everywhere.

I just might find some mind-space for this one, too. Van Buren seems to have captured also the Hilarity--were the results not so long-term Deadly
--of Murican hubris Unleashed ..sans-any-Adult-supervision! {{ via Shrub? Darth Cheney!?! Santa Claus? }}
     iot dildo(s) - (boxley) - (4)
         I liked the Bring Bernie Back story immediately following it. -NT - (mmoffitt)
         Eclectic site; a tad further down: 'Wars since 9/11 have cost the [dis-] USA ... >$5T<' - (Ashton) - (2)
             Vehicle Maintenance alone... - (dmcarls) - (1)
                 Re: Vehicle Maintenance alone... - (Ashton)

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