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.
"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.
