🇺🇸 United States · 2017 · 🛠️ Pricey gadgets
Camouflage covered in trees. For a country where forests cover about 2% of the land.
💸 Guess, then reveal the price
US$28 million possible extra cost
Perfect cover, as long as the enemy is in a garden centre.
What actually happened
The US watchdog for Afghan reconstruction found in 2017 that buying a privately owned forest pattern, picked after Afghanistan’s defence minister liked it online, instead of free US government patterns added $26 million to $28 million to the cost. Forests cover about 2.1% of Afghanistan.
Source: Government Executive ↗ · Amount in original currency, not adjusted for inflation. An unusual cost is not automatically waste; see how we check the facts.