Two Never-Finished Navy Ships Cost U.S. Taxpayers $300 Million; Head to Scrap Heap
July 19th, 2011This amount represents a little over 5 days worth of air conditioning for U.S. military tents in Afghanistan… No biggy. *sigh*
Via: Pilot Online:
They are the two ships no one wanted, almost constantly embroiled in one dispute or another for the past 25 years. The two Navy behemoths have never gone on a mission, were never even completed, yet they cost taxpayers at least $300 million.
Now the vessels, the Benjamin Isherwood and the Henry Eckford, are destined to leave Virginia waters for good and be scrapped at a Texas salvage yard, with no money coming back to the U.S. Treasury.
