Dave Mitchell
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Yeah, and they spent a trillion dollars in Afghanistan.
And so the cash is just a tiny fraction of that.
Yeah, hard to detect, I'm sure.
But we do know of, you know, cases where there were several cases, quite a few cases of special forces soldiers being caught, arrested, prosecuted, and convicted for stealing six-figure sums of cash.
So this is not just an inference or a suspicion.
What's theβdo you know the mostβ
Yeah, I saw one of this guy, $210,000.
You know, I think, yeah.
Actually, no, you know what?
There's significantly more because there's all different kinds of diversion from the supply lines.
There was one sport rag soldier who got caught smuggling $1 million in cash.
A female soldier named Tanya Long.
Go get it, girl.
$1 million that she was smuggling back in like VCRs or some kind of electronic equipment.
But she had taken that money.
She and her likely with conspirators, co-conspirators, had taken that money not from the op fund but through a kickback scheme.
Whole different type of corruption that also exists.
The war in Afghanistan was an incredibly corrupt enterprise.