Another couple of million down the drain.

Where else but in Afghanistan? Another building boondoggle - a new, single headquarters on Camp Brown in Kandahar. The contract was let to an Afghan company in 2012 to build a $5 million, two-story building with administrative space and a secure communications room for logistics, maintenance, personnel and operations management. Completion was scheduled for July 2013. (You may recall that our combat mission was scheduled to end at the end of 2014.)

Well, the contractor fell almost a year behind schedule, and in October 2013, the commanders whose troops had been assigned to occupy the building decided it was no longer needed. Six months later, the military cancelled the project. By this time, $2.2 million had already been spent. The building remains half constructed, with no stairs to the second floor, electrical wiring or plumbing. It has never been used.