Posted on 01/12/2024 9:13:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
According to a report by the Pentagon inspector general, more than 40,000 weapons worth more than $1 billion were shipped to Ukraine but never made it to the battlefield.
Many of the weapons were sent to a U.S. military logistics hub in Poland, while others were shipped directly to Ukraine. The equipment includes shoulder-fired missiles, kamikaze drones, and night-vision goggles.
Alexandra "Sasha" Baker, the acting undersecretary of defense for policy, said last November, when a draft of the report was leaked, that required accounting procedures “are not practical in a dynamic and hostile wartime environment."
The IG report found that "American defense officials and diplomats in Washington and Europe had failed to quickly or fully account for many of the nearly 40,000 weapons that by law should have been closely monitored because of their battlefield impact, sensitive technology, and relatively small size," according to the New York Times.
I guess they were too busy, or something.
“These are identified as the items — that because of their sensitivity, their vulnerability to diversion or misuse or the consequences of that — it’s particularly important to have this additional tracking and accountability in place,” said Robert Storch, the Pentagon’s inspector general. Storch is the primary watchdog for American aid sent to Ukraine’s war effort.
The report was sent to Congress on Wednesday and a copy of it was provided to The New York Times. The Pentagon’s inspector general released a redacted version of it on Thursday. It did not investigate whether any weapons had been diverted for illicit use, which “was beyond the scope of our evaluation to determine,” it noted.
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Sure. They were sold to Iran, who distributed them to various terrorist entities.
Nice to see FedGov’s buddies are making money from selling all the free stuff.
You wouldn’t want their buddies to not get money, now would you?
They ended up in Gaza.
Perhaps they weren’t shipped to Ukraine. Perhaps they’re stashed here and there around our own country, ready to be picked up by the army coming across the border. How can we believe ANYTHING coming out of our government?
I could do a better job by myself keeping track with a pad of paper and a pen and a chartered flight.
The government is clueless as to what it’s doing.
Jeopardy
I’ll take ‘Government Accountability’ for $500 Alex.
Answer: 40,000 weapons sent to Ukraine have gone missing according to the pentagon IG.
Question: What is...the government is too big?
You win!
“Boating Accident”
Along with all the stuff that was bought by the Post Office, etc.
Pure evil.
“Storch is the primary watchdog for American aid sent to Ukraine’s war effort.”
Good thing the watchdog is on duty. Nothing gets by Bowser. Just imagine if we did not have a watchdog on station.
“That’s not my job!”
In the real world, you get fired for that. In government, you get kicked upstairs.
Nope. They never left the country. They’re in the same place those millions of rounds of ammunition wound up a couple years back, just waiting to be handed out on the corner of MLK Blvd and Main St in Everycity, USA...
Two things here:
1. Were these weapons really delivered to Ukraine or were they diverted elsewhere?
2. If they were delivered to Ukraine then that’s their destination. Expecting a nation at war to stop and fill out reams of paperwork every time they use a weapon is idiocy as the US found out during World War Two. Captain Arleigh Burke responded to complaints from supply and procurement bureaucrats that combat troops were not completing paperwork which the bureaucrats considered to be important and he responded:
“If it will help kill Japs—it’s important; if it does not help kill Japs—it’s not important.”
- Captain Arleigh Burke
I want to know who got the $$$ when they were sold on the world arms market. I’m guessing 75% of the cash came back to our DC masters.
Yes, the army and the weapons are already here with more on the way.
90% military age men
And France. And Mexico. Lots of other interesting places too.
But all the checks cleared.
Probably even get the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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