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The military has to pack up more than 11 years worth of equipment and send it home.
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Sean Carberry
NPR News
As, like, we're walking down here, you can see that there are hundreds of containers on this FOB. When you actually go through these containers and look at them, there's junk. There's like torn tents. There's one container full of busted bed frames.
Getting these containers and vehicles down to Kandahar is no easy task. It's a two-to-four hour drive, and that's assuming nothing breaks down along the way. Plus, IEDs and insurgent attacks are still a threat. On a chilly morning, a cavalry troop assembles to deliver two vehicles and a truckload of equipment to Kandahar. But the convoy didn't even make it off the base before one of the vehicles to be turned in broke down.
We're down one of the TI vehicles, it's not accelerating. So we're gonna go park that in line.
So they set off without it. Once they get to Kandahar, it can take several days to complete the paperwork before they can return to their base and prepare the next load. Sean Carberry, NPR News, Kandahar. | 
发表于 2016-8-2 11:42:49