{"id":18547,"date":"2010-03-15T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u-s-_regains_huge_arms_cache_lost_by_afghans-2\/"},"modified":"2010-03-15T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:00:56","slug":"u-s-_regains_huge_arms_cache_lost_by_afghans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18547","title":{"rendered":"U.S. regains huge arms cache lost by Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. forces have recovered a huge cache of weapons that was given to Afghan security forces but wound up in the hands of the Taliban, a U.S. military review has found.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan army and national police have lost 13,000 weapons, 200,000 rounds of ammunition, 80 vehicles and one pair of night vision goggles, members of a U.S. task force told USA TODAY.<\/p>\n<p>All the gear was bought for the Afghans by Americans, part of $330 million in weapons purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the weapons have been seized from the Taliban or other insurgent forces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20100315\/1aafghanweapondry15_st.art.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. forces have recovered a huge cache of weapons that was given to Afghan security forces but wound up in the hands of the Taliban, a U.S. military review has found. The Afghan army and national police have lost 13,000<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18547\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}