35 Percent Of U.S. Equipment In Iraq Has Been Removed

Friday, April 2, 2010 at 12:03PM
Justin Duckham in News/Commentary, Pentagon

The military has made removed a large portion of equipment from Iraq as the 2011 withdrawal deadline for the U.S. approaches.

"When we started this operation we had about 2.8 million items of equipment in Iraq," said Third Army Commanding General Lt. Gen. William Webster during a briefing from Kuwait Friday. "We're about 35 percent through with that right now."

Webster noted that the army has tried to tone down the overall costs of the equipment's removal by tracking down redundancies and inefficient practices. In 2009, the army had saved $3.8 billion, according to Webster.

In early 2009, President Barack Obama stated that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq will end by late August this year. The bulk of the U.S. presence will be removed by the end of 2011.

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