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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 07:19 PM
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Wars force Army equipment costs to triple ($17 bil/yr in repairs/upgrades)
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Wars force Army equipment costs to triple

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
18 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The annual cost of replacing, repairing and upgrading Army equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than triple next year to more than $17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the Associated Press.

From 2002 to 2006, the Army spent an average of $4 billion a year in annual equipment costs. But as the war takes a harder toll on the military, that number is projected to balloon to more than $12 billion for the federal budget year that starts next Oct. 1, the documents show.

The $17 billion also includes an additional $5 billion in equipment expenses that the Army requested in previous years but has not yet been provided.

The latest costs include the transfer of more than 1,200 2 1/2-ton trucks, nearly 1,100 Humvees and $8.8 million in other equipment from the U.S. Army to the Iraqi security forces.

Army and Marine Corps leaders are expected to testify before Congress Tuesday and outline the growing costs of the war — with estimates that it will cost between $12 billion and $13 billion a year for equipment repairs, upgrades and replacements from now on.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060626/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_war_spending
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 07:24 PM
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1. That means Halliburton profits will quadruple.
I can just hear the FReeper 'patriots' calling their brokers right now. :eyes:
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Sherman A1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-26-06 07:29 PM
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2. It would be too bad
If somehow the budgets magically got reduced and the boys in the Pentagon really had to make some hard choices about how to fix all the stuff. Maybe a few "gee whiz" weapon systems might have to go by the wayside (F22 Raptor that the GAO says, just might now be worth the cost or needed). We used to do this after a war, the military just had to get by on the things left over and stockpiled in the arsenals until they used up at least some of the stuff. Ike was right about the Military Industrial Complex....
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