[Digg]Wars wearing down military gear at cost of about $2 billion a month

[Newsguy]

About $2 billion worth of Army and Marine Corps equipment — from rifles to tanks — is wearing out or being destroyed every month in Iraq and Afghanistan, military leaders and outside experts say. That's equal to about a quarter of the $8 billion per month in military war costs.

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