[Milsurplus] Short Career of the Afghan G-222

[Hubert Miller]

I went to look up the "G-222 medium-lift cargo plane" after reading that it had been provided by the U.S. to the Afghan Air Force.
Wiki sez about this fleet's short career:

"Afghan Air Force has received several former Italian Air Force G.222s under a USAF contract... Following upgrades by Alenia, deliveries began in 2009. By December 2012, 16 aircraft had been delivered; the USAF canceled the contract then because of lack of maintenance support from Alenia and scrapped them in summer of 2014."