OT: Fun Look at: War-related costs since 2001 are approaching half a trillion dollars
- From: Art Bahrs <ahbahrs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:03:34 -0700
Hi All :)
Ok... Tracy raising an interesting issue... how much do we owe other
nations for support / supplies/ assistance during various wars/armed
conflicts versus how much do other nations owe us for support / supplies/
assistance during various wars/armed conflicts?
Clive Cussler wrote a book (Night Probe IIRC) using as a part of the
premise the concept that England granted us Canada in payment of WWII
"Loans" Interesting.... States numbers 51 - 64 or so? (sorry can't
remember how many providences are in Canada hehehe after all we all know I
am geographically challenged!)
Art "just a wild thot before entering a meeting hell day" Bahrs
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Hmmm, if we could only collect on the French (WWI) war debt at 5%
interest that could cover it 20 times over.
Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc.
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Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: War-related costs since 2001 are
approaching half a trillion dollars
Wars force Army equipment costs to triple By LOLITA C. BALDOR
WASHINGTON - The annual cost of replacing, repairing and
upgrading Army =
equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is expected to more than
triple next ye= ar
to more than $17 billion, according to Army documents obtained by the
Associated Press.
From 2002 to 2006, the Army spent an average of $4 billion a
year in an= nual
equipment costs. But as the war takes a harder toll on the
military, that=
number is projected to balloon to more than $12 billion for
the federal =
budget year that starts next Oct. 1, the documents show.
The $17 billion also includes an additional $5 billion in equipment
expenses that the Army requested in previous years but has
not yet been =
provided.
The latest costs include the transfer of more than 1,200 2
1/2-ton trucks= ,
nearly 1,100 Humvees and $8.8 million in other equipment from
the U.S. Ar= my
to the Iraqi security forces.
Army and Marine Corps leaders are expected to testify before Congress
Tuesday and outline the growing costs of the war - with
estimates that = it
will cost between $12 billion and $13 billion a year for
equipment repair= s,
upgrades and replacements from now on.
The Marine Corps has said in recent testimony before Congress
that it wou= ld
need nearly $12 billion to replace and repair all the
equipment worn out = or
lost to combat in the past four years. So far, the Marines
have received =
$1.6 billion toward those costs to replace and repair the equipment.
According to the Army, the $17 billion includes:
_$2.1 billion in equipment that must be replaced because of
battle losses= .
_About $6.5 billion for repairs.
_About $8.4 billion to rebuild or upgrade equipment.
One of the growing costs is the replacement of Humvees, which
are wearing=
out more quickly because of the added armor they are carrying
to protect =
soldiers from roadside bombs. The added weight is causing
them to wear ou= t
faster, decreasing the life of the vehicles.
Congress has provided about $21 billion for equipment costs
in emergency =
supplemental budget bills from 2002-06. All the war equipment
expenses ha= ve
been funded through those emergency bills, and not in the
regular fiscal-=
year budgets.
Pentagon officials have estimated that such emergency bills
would have to=
continue two years beyond the time the U.S. pulls out of Iraq
in order to=
fully replace, repair and rebuild all of the needed equipment.
The push for additional equipment funding comes after the
House last week=
passed a $427 billion defense spending bill for the fiscal
year beginning=
Oct. 1, which includes $50 billion for military operations in
Iraq and =
Afghanistan. A separate $66 billion emergency funding bill
for the two wa= rs
was approved earlier in the month.
War-related costs since 2001 are approaching half a trillion dollars.
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