• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Some kind of “careful, Icarus” thing?

      Right. Wrong God. But still. Yes, the wrong wrong God, I get that. But still

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    The US sabotaged any equipment left behind. My guess is that they fixed that Black Hawk using parts off of multiple and some controls failed during their test.

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      Probably not. We only destroyed the classified stuff, there’s no reason to make them unsafe and endanger people when you can buy them used for a couple hundred thousand anyway.

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        My cousin was civilian DOD in charge of Bagram during the exit. Orders were to decommission anything useful and it was like Christmas for the Marines. Break everything was the rule. Everything.