About 10% Of Imported Military Uniforms And Military Shoes In Afghanistan Will Be Lost, Sold Or Stolen.

Recent exposure of Afghan troops

Such problems as poor quality and insufficient quantity can not be handed out to the soldiers in time, causing criticism about the serious corruption and poor management of the procurement system.

The United States led coalition forces in Afghanistan have resumed their duties for the Afghan security forces and the police purchasing army shoes.

[poor quality]

Reported in Afghanistan last Monday, the new recruits queue, many of the recruits were wearing military shoes, poor quality, "thin as paper, as long as a fall will be able to break the exposed heels or big toe."

Abdul Ali, a 21 year old Afghan soldier, pointed to the broken shoes on his feet and said, "if these shoes are tread on water, they will be very uncomfortable."

Parr, director of the police in Wan Province, said Mohamed Zaman Meza's condition is also not optimistic. "I have encountered several cases of new shoes that all shoes are cracked, so I have to send these new shoes to the shoemaker to repair them."

People familiar with the matter say that there are many new shoes that are not as big as two.

In addition, the Afghan men's feet rarely exceed 10 yards, but there are a lot of 12 yards in the new shoes purchased by the army.

Colonel Christian Walker, German adviser to the 209 Afghan army, said: "we have just received 2000 pairs of shoes, half of which are 12 yards."

Ken Watson, head of procurement at the security pition command of the coalition forces in Afghanistan, said that this could mean that officials had "blocked" the new shoes purchased and supplied by the coalition forces instead of selling them.

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As far as Watson is concerned, the coalition forces did not purchase 12 yards of shoes when they purchased military shoes for the Afghan army.

[quantity deficiency]

At the moment, coalition forces are pporting more than 1 million pairs of shoes to Afghanistan by air and sea pportation, some of which can be traced back to 2014.

The price of each pair of shoes is between $75 and $90, and is expected to cost about $100 million in the fiscal year ending September 30th this year.

In addition, in the 2017 fiscal year, the coalition also planned to invest $215 million for the purchase of military shoes, military uniform and other equipment for the Afghan army.

However, as of earlier this month, only 23% and 29% of the approximately 389 thousand pairs of military shoes and about 572 thousand pairs of Police shoes ordered by the Allied forces in 2014 and 2015 were successfully delivered.

John F Thorpe Thorpe, a special inspector of Afghanistan's reconstruction operations, found that tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers had not yet received the "cold clothing" of the past year, for example.

And gloves.

Afghan Colonel atti atura, who is training new recruits, said: "when the recruits arrive, they only receive uniforms, and nothing else.

They didn't even have a pair of slippers when they wanted to wash their feet.

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The Afghan security force has about 200 thousand people and the police force has about 151 thousand people.

In 2012, with the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, the coalition forces pferred the responsibility of purchasing new shoes for the Afghan army and police to the Afghan government.

However, the Afghan government subsequently exposed corruption, mismanagement, buying cheap shoes but ignoring quality problems, so that the soldiers could not wear decent shoes for a long time.

According to Watson, coalition forces later took over the responsibilities of purchasing new shoes from the Afghan government.

However, after the new shoes purchased by the United States from the United States arrived in Afghanistan, they were handed over to the Afghan army and police for storage and distribution.

According to Watson, "about 10% of imported military uniform and military shoes will be lost, sold or stolen".