Bush-Market Kabul

[housil]

Today I read an article, about Afghans sell US gear and equipemt at "Bush-Market", named after the former President Bush. During the Russian invasion, they had a "Breschenew-Market" too

Nobody want´s to answer where they got it nor can take care about.

Click thru 13 pic´s and note # 9 & 10:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotos ... 53401.html

American gear and stuff is that popular, that the Afghans send it to China to let it copy That´s why it said "MADEN USA" instead "Made in USA"

[Treesuit]

Housil,

, Those pictures are so funny. We had stores like that in Iraq and Kuwait when I was there last and the Arabs had everything for sale for the GI's. Seeing some of that stuff was like "Really! Somebody would pay for that after market made in China crap?" Course the pictures of the MRE's and UGR's are kind of strange...like "were did they get those?"

[German_EPA]

the mre single items are surely leftovers (did you see the english ration box)... but the UGR and NEW dessert boots ...

[jfko6]

Also See: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3342

[someuser]

Wow where did they get all those Monster energy drink? Afghanistan? MRE?

Those are some strange items they offer in the middle of no where.

[norge]

lot of the mres and other used gear comes from the dumpsters/dump
we had the same thing in lebanon when i was there,lokal people searchin for
things from the garbage and sold it on the market.

the soldiers throw away a lot of things in the garbage,we used to
search dumpsters in norway to afther exersices and found gold many times

cheers ken

[Cracker]

Loads off stuff, like the worn off boots are simply discarded and thrown into dumpsters.
These days though, some Dutch forces choose to burn their items (uniform clothing, boots, gear) to prevend it to be used against them. This might be a good thing for others aswell..


The MRE stuff lies all over the place, and gets given away by troops..
The western stuff like monster energy etc, can simply be bought (!) .. the black market is a precious thing in the middle east..

[Bypah]

Also remember that a couple of convoys have been attacked in the Khyber Pass land route between Pakistan and Afhganistan so there may be a posibility that some of thos items might have been stolen from those supply convoys before they were burnt...

[Cracker]

They burn it on the shooting range beside the camp

[Bypah]

That's why during Desert Storm the order was to dig trenches and throw there any surplus rations etc. and burn it.....