Originally posted on 06/21/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by pavyracer View Post
I don't know the financial numbers but if it costs lets say $2 billion to ship back home and when it comes back home in the US it becomes surplus and it's sold for $1 billion it would make sense to destroy it.
It absolutely works out to be cheaper when you break it down to the reality of it. The usable and expensive/sensitive materials and equipment are loaded on Conex containers and either air lifted or trucked to the AF base and sent home but it makes no sense in any universe to task out the manpower and fuel/time costs to take on the logistical nightmare of moving every vehicle and or item from all of the FOBS/Camps through the countryside back to the only airbases available to fly them home. Think of it like a personal move if you've only got a pickup truck and a small uhaul....sure you paid $300 for a piece of furniture 5 years ago but are you going to spend $400 on another trailer just to get that piece to your new home and then another $100 a month to store it?