{"id":1457075,"date":"2022-04-28T15:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457075"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:29:39","slug":"in-hasty-withdrawal-u-s-left-behind-7b-of-military-gear-including-78-aircraft-and-12000-humvees-in-afghanistan-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-hasty-withdrawal-u-s-left-behind-7b-of-military-gear-including-78-aircraft-and-12000-humvees-in-afghanistan-report\/","title":{"rendered":"In Hasty Withdrawal, U.S. Left Behind $7B Of Military Gear, Including 78 Aircraft And 12,000 Humvees, In Afghanistan: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-hasty-withdrawal-u-s-left-behind-7b-of-military-gear-including-78-aircraft-and-12000-humvees-in-afghanistan-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457075&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/09\/Afghan-scaled.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">During President Joe Biden\u2019s hasty \u2014 and badly botched \u2014 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan last year, billions of dollars in weapons and military equipment were left behind, according to a new Pentagon report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cIn all, about $7 billion worth of hardware remained in the country after the Taliban seized control, according to the report prepared for Congress which was obtained by CNN,\u201d the Daily Mail <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/27\/politics\/afghan-weapons-left-behind\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat includes almost $1 billion of aircraft \u2014 rendered inoperable and dumped at Hamid Karzai International Airport \u2014 some 22,000 military Humvees and almost all the communications equipment supplied during the course of the conflict,\u201d the UK paper wrote.<\/p>\n<p>CNN sought to explain the situation, saying \u201c$7 billion of military equipment the US transferred to the Afghan government over the course of 16 years was left behind in Afghanistan after the US\u00a0completed its withdrawal\u00a0from the country in August.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US gave a total of $18.6 billion of equipment to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) from 2005 to August 2021, according to the report,\u201d CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/04\/27\/politics\/afghan-weapons-left-behind\/index.html\">reported<\/a>. \u201cOf that total, equipment worth $7.12 billion remained in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal was completed on August 30, 2021. It included aircraft, air-to-ground munitions, military vehicles, weapons, communications equipment and other materials, according to the DoD report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch of the remaining equipment\u201d that was abandoned in Afghanistan requires \u201cspecialized maintenance that DoD contractors previously provided\u201d to Afghan forces \u201cin the form of technical knowledge and support,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>CNN also cited a Defense Department spokesman who said other equipment left behind was disabled or destroyed, although at the time of the withdrawal, there were no reports of such actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe $7.12 billion figure cited in the Department\u2019s recent report to Congress corresponds to ANDSF equipment and not U.S. military equipment used by our forces,\u201d Army Major Rob Lodewick, a Defense Department spokesperson, said in a statement to CNN. \u201cNearly all equipment used by U.S. military forces in Afghanistan was either retrograded or destroyed prior to our withdrawal and is not part of the \u2018$7.12 billion\u2019 figure cited in the report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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