More US taxpayers money wasted in Afghanistan but at least their military will look fabulous! – PB/TK
Afghan military’s uniform choice has unnecessarily cost US taxpayers $28 million – By Thomas Gibbons-Neff / June 21 2017
A questionable uniform choice by the Afghan military has probably cost taxpayers an unnecessary $28 million since 2008, according to a new watchdog report released Tuesday.
The 17-page report, written by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, says that a woodland camouflage pattern uniform chosen by the Afghan Ministry of Defense for the country’s military has cost an exorbitant amount because of its “proprietary” status.
In 2007, the then-Afghan Minister of Defense Abdul Rahim Wardak saw a woodland pattern produced by the company HyperStealth while browsing the Internet, according to the SIGAR report.
“He liked what he saw,” Pentagon officials told SIGAR.
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