$7B in gear U.S. sent to war will not return
Workers tear apart an armored vehicle at Kandahar airfield. (Post)
About 20 percent of the equipment sent to Afghanistan will be disposed of because it is not needed or too costly to ship back, and it’s too complicated to donate or sell.
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