For a moment, leave aside the question of missing property. The September 2007 State Department inspector general report provides a blueprint for how lax department rules let contractors in Afghanistan shoehorn all manner of purchases into their conctract costs — regardless of whether the contract required those specific purchases. As they say on the streets, DynCorp, essentially, got to charge it to the game.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179100