US Paid $14.7 For Empty Warehouse While Troops Got Empty Words?

Why say it was wasted money? After all, the contractors got paid while troops ended up with pink slips under sequestration. Contractors got to take care of their families very well while troops and their families back home lived off food stamps. The contractors built this empty building while many servicemembers returned to the US and ended up living on the streets and in shelters. This money was only wasted if you consider our troops worthy of the money that could have been used on them.

Pentagon wasted $15mn on Afghan warehouse it never used
RT News
Published time: 22 Jul, 2015

“Although the $14.7 million DLA warehouse facility was well built, lengthy construction delays led to the facility never being used for its intended purpose,” SIGAR said. “Had the facility been completed on schedule, DLA would have been able to use the warehouse facility for more than 2 years before its mission ended in Kandahar.”

The US has invested $14.7mn in a warehouse facility in Afghanistan that now lies deserted since the Pentagon decided to wrap-up its mission but continued wasting US taxpayers money until the overdue construction was completed, a new audit report reveals.

According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report, the Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) finally accepted the multi-million warehouse facility into service, six months after the decision was made to end DLA’s mission in Kandahar. The 173,428 square foot climate-controlled distribution center was finished so late that it never fulfilled its intended use.

Now SIGAR is urging the Pentagon to figure out “who made the decision” to allow more spending on the warehouses after it became obvious the mission was wrapping-up.
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