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Title: **$2.7 B 'Iron Mountain' of military equipment, gear to be dropped ** Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on August 23, 2011, 01:49:38 PM http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/afghanistan-set-to-get-massive-supply-of-military-gear/2011/08/22/gIQA7ovWYJ_blog.html
Quote Afghanistan set to get huge supply of military gear KABUL — NATO’s war planners call it the “iron mountain,” the $2.7 billion mass of military equipment that will be dropped on Afghanistan over the next eight months. But will the mountain be tall enough? Between now and next March, the U.S.-led coalition will deliver 22,000 vehicles, including 514 new four-wheeled “mobile strike force” armored vehicles yet to be used in Afghanistan, 44 airplanes and helicopters, 40,000 weapons, and tens of thousands of radios and other pieces of communications gear. “It’s an enormous amount of equipment, vehicles and weapons,” said one U.S. military official. |