>>4421818 [#5637 NOtable ] $14.7B just for getting the 7000 troops out of Afghanistan
This doesn't pass the smell test to me. Likely this is moar Cabal activity. Th US Military isn't really known for spending that much money bringing all that crap back. The big heavy stuff will either be left in-country or recycled through GSA and DRMO, Defense ReUtilization. It'd be cheaper to buy new stuff so I'm inclined to believe this is another Cabal money operation being about to be taken out. Another reason why POTUS funded the DOD through 2019, give them the money [rope] let them run wild and let them out [hang] themselves. Also, I think this guy Kevin Baron is a Clown, read the bio, screams clown!
Each U.S. Troop In Afghanistan Now Costs $2.1 Million
The average cost of each U.S. troop in Afghanistan will nearly double in the last year of the war to $2.1 million, according to a new analysis of the Pentagon’s budget.
For the past five years, from fiscal 2008 through 2013, the average troop cost had held steady at roughly $1.3. million. But the Pentagon’s 2014 war budget would dramatically increase that figure. The added cost, argue Defense Department officials, is a reflection of the price of sending troops and equipment back home in the drawdown.
Not so, says Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis’ Todd Harrison. He doesn’t buy that excuse, and argued on Thursday that the U.S. has been moving far greater amounts of troops and equipment in those previous budget years. Instead, he said, as the number of U.S. troops decline, the overhead cost to support the war and the Afghan forces that the U.S. continues to underwrite remains relatively stable.
“It was a bit of a shocker to me,” Harrison said. The budget analyst said costs like intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, or ISR, as well as the support structure for troop life remains high, compared to the total personnel number dip.
Kevin Baron is the founding executive editor of Defense One. Baron has lived in Washington for 20 years, covering international affairs, the military, the Pentagon, Congress, and politics for Foreign Policy, National Journal, Stars and Stripes, and the Boston Globe, where he ran investigative … FULL BIO
https://www.defenseone.com/business/2013/10/each-us-troop-afghanistan-now-costs-21-million/72572/