How Greece Helped America's Special Operations Command

Photo: Bill Walter, right, led the hunt for the half-century old gun parts. Air Force photo

Greece Is Bailing Us Out? -- Time

Greece is on the verge of default. So who better to come to the aid of the U.S. Special Operations Command?

Battleland regularly gets reports from the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan over caches of Taliban weapons it has captured and destroyed.

But this Air Force release speaks of a different kind of weapons cache that definitely wasn’t destroyed:

A tip…led…to a valuable supply of modified 40 mm M2 A1 gun parts used on the AC-130 gunship, which netted an Air Force savings of more than $14 million.

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My Comment: On the one hand the tax payer should appreciate that at least Greece did not throw this weaponry aside .... but I cannot help but feel that the military is now looking behind the "couch cushions" for equipment and parts that they sorely need but cannot afford.