What are US troops smuggling back from Afghanistan these days?
Question by Jack P: What are US troops smuggling back from Afghanistan these days?
From WWII until now US troops have always managed to ship home valuable ‘war trophies’. When I was a kid there was a man in town had a large barn chock-full of WWII weaponry, silk rising star belly-flags taken off dead Japanese, a jar full of Japanese gold teeth taken from the dead at Guadalcanal. My step-dad had a foot-locker full of similar items taken in North Africa. So did every other veteran, most likely, though I only knew of a dozen or so.
When I was in Korea during the Kennedy reign it was gold. The US forbade ownership of gold currency etc, driving the price of gold upward. In Korea anyone with the money could buy solid 18 carat gold heavy jewelry-like items and ship it home in whatever quantity they could afford. Many did, selling it by weight back home for a lot more than they paid for it in US script overseas. In Japan it was ivory at that time.
Nobody can even guess how many thousands of tons of forbidden war loot, contraband, drugs and drug paraphanelia were sent by toops serving in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.
Given the long tradition and the blind eye that’s always been turned to it by authorities, both military and civilian, it’s probably still going on.
What are US troops smuggling home from Afghanistan to assist their financial recovery when they return? Particularly the National Guardsmen and Army Reserves, they’ve left their jobs a goodly while and lost money doing it. Mightn’t even have jobs when they go inactive.
Surely there’s an underground wink and nod blackmarket syphon in place to keep them Patriotic.
What’s in Afghanistan for them to ship home?
but I love you: That goes with the territory. So long as the bodycounts coming back are lower than the ones left behind it’s considered a win.
No other way to tell who is winning.
But in Vietnam era they actually caught a whole stateside/Vietnam bodybag shipping unit bringing home heroin with the dead. Zipped it in there, recovered it stateside.
Win/win. But they got greedy and exceeded the allowable limits evidently.
Best answer:
Answer by but i love you
dead soldiers bodies,lots of them
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