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posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 07 2015, @01:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the tip-of-the-iceberg dept.

Soldiers were selling the U.S. military’s fuel to Afghan locals on the side, and pocketing the proceeds. When Hightower suggested they start doing the same, Charboneau said, she agreed.

In so doing, Charboneau contributed to thefts by U.S. military personnel of at least $15 million worth of fuel since the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. And eventually she became one of at least 115 enlisted personnel and military officers convicted since 2005 of committing theft, bribery, and contract rigging crimes valued at $52 million during their deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a comprehensive tally of court records by the Center for Public Integrity.

Many of these crimes grew out of shortcomings in the military’s management of the deployments that experts say are still present: A heavy dependence on cash transactions, a hasty award process for high-value contracts, loose and harried oversight within the ranks, and a regional culture of corruption that proved seductive to the American troops transplanted there.

[Related]: http://www.militarycorruption.com/nguyen.htm

[Also Covered By]: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/05/u_s_troops_have_stolen_tens_of_millions_in_iraq_and_afghanistan_center_for.single.html

Of course, stealing from the military is not strictly limited to overseas. It wasn't that long ago that a single guy was convicted of the largest domestic kickback and bribery scheme at a cool $32.5Million

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @10:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2015, @10:01PM (#180081)

    I live in another country.

    A friend of mine had (but has since returned) our version of a Flashbang. I never saw it, but he's not usually prone to exaggeration (outside of his martial arts, where he feels he could handle a high level special forces soldier with his half-arsed tae kwon do).

    He was telling me that friends of his, who are in the army as armourers, have entire military firearms at home. They just take them home a piece at a time, and then re-assemble them a piece at a time. he was visiting them one day, and they have multiple rifle just sitting around in their main living area....