US ready to begin major drawdown of troops, equipment from Afghanistan

US ready to begin major drawdown of troops, equipment from Afghanistan

By Jay Price
McClatchy Foreign Staff

September 21, 2013

KABUL, Afghanistan — As the United States begins the major phase of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, military officials say equipment and vehicles are moving out of the country briskly but that planning the final details has been complicated because negotiations with the Afghan government have stalled over how many American troops might remain.

The complex push to get the equipment and vehicles out of land-locked Afghanistan and back to the U.S. is expected to cost up to $7 billion.http://www.stripes.com/news/us/us-ready-to-begin-major-drawdown-of-troops-equipment-from-afghanistan-1.242752