Disgusting war profiteering story in Times
The military contracting business is quite depressing at times. To wit: AEY Inc., a company run out of a Miami beach office and headed by a 22-year-old, got a $300 million contract to become the main supplier of munitions to Afghanistan’s army and police forces. How’d that work out?
Since then, the company has provided ammunition that is more than 40 years old and in decomposing packaging, according to an examination of the munitions by The New York Times and interviews with American and Afghan officials. Much of the ammunition comes from the aging stockpiles of the old Communist bloc, including stockpiles that the State Department and NATO have determined to be unreliable and obsolete, and have spent millions of dollars to have destroyed.
Many more infuriating details in the linked article, including ammunition made in China…in 1966.
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