(10-24-2023, 07:39 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(10-23-2023, 04:48 PM)CoyoteAngel Wrote: ...
Vehicles: we do try to bring those back, at least we did nearly 10 years ago when I retired after the Iraq drawdown. We gave tons of mraps to local police and sheriffs depts. Some say thats a good thing, others say it isnt. I'd prefer to see them on the border, and I sorta think some might be. Smaller desert type dune capable vehicles. Unless Biden has managed to give them to the cartels somehow.
Biden admin seems to have just said 'whatever.....' without much thought to it at all, too hard to figure out.
Yeah, DHS loaded up the locals with that stuff. The big city of Grundy (population probably around 500 - saaaa-lute!) got their very own MRAP that sat for a long time in a gravel lot across from the PD just gathering dust, and the big city of Lebanon (population around 3000 - saaa-lute! With a police force of 4 officers) got around 760 M-16's to sit around gathering dust. They could have put that stuff to better use down on the Texas border.
Once upon a time, what couldn't be exfiltrated from a country we were pulling out of got the Willie Peter treatment so that it couldn't ever be turned against us. No more, it seems.
We left a a few hundred thousand M-16's in Vietnam when we pulled out, and 10 years down the road we started seeing those serial numbers in Nicaragua and El Salvador.
You've got to wonder how much of that stuff we left laying around in a cash-strapped Afghanistan is going to turn up in the hands of the likes of Hamas now....
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Or worse, the Mexican cartels.