US Task Force Hunting $2.2Bln Military Equipment ‘Lost’ in Afghanistan

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The US Army said that a US military task force has recovered over the past two years almost two thirds of more than $2 billion worth of equipment lost in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A US military task force has recovered over the past two years almost two thirds of more than $2 billion worth of equipment lost in Afghanistan, the US Army said in a report.

"The mission, known as Task Force Jessup, centers on establishing an accountability trail for $2.2 billion worth of equipment 'lost' in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2015," the report, published on the official www.army.mil web site on Thursday, stated.

By January 30, 2016, Task Force Jessup had recovered $1.4 billion worth of missing material, the report pointed out.

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Task Force Jessup was launched in March 2014 as a joint venture between 1st Theater Sustainment Command, Army Sustainment Command and 401st Army Field Support Brigade and it continues today, according to the report.

"While it may be easy to lose small items, it's more difficult to understand how a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) can be lost. The answer is it was never really lost, but misplaced," the report noted.

Task Force Jessup, based at Bagram Airfield, combs through records to reconstruct property transactions for thousands of pieces of equipment ranging in size from hand-held items to MRAP vehicles with weights of more than 20 tons, the report added.

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