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The U.S. military failed to “maintain complete inventory records for an estimated 87,000 weapons — or about 36 percent — of the 242,000 weapons that the United States procured and shipped to Afghanistan from December 2004 through June 2008,” a U.S. Government Accountability Office report states.
“Accountability lapses occurred throughout the supply chain,” it says.
The Defense Department spent roughly $120 million during that period to acquire a range of small arms and light weapons for the Afghan National Security Forces, including rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
The military also failed to properly account for an additional 135,000 weapons it obtained for the Afghan forces from 21 other countries.
“What if we had to tell families [of U.S. soldiers] not only why we are in Afghanistan but why their son or daughter died at the hands of an insurgent using a weapon purchased by the United States taxpayers? But that’s what we risk if we were to have tens of thousands of weapons we provided washing around Afghanistan, off the books,” Rep. John Tierney, D-Massachusetts, chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs.
The military is unable to provide serial numbers for 46,000 of the missing 87,000 weapons, the report concludes. No records have been maintained for the location or disposition for the other 41,000 weapons.
So, the nutballs turn out to be incompetent and incapable of overseeing a record of hardware distributed in a part of the world half of them can’t spell or find on a map – when they were in charge of the ship of state. And no one is really surprised.
Are you?
Let’s see. We give these iron age tribal guys guns, and they are now missing? Surprised?
Any time I was around Uncle Sugar’s Patriotic Army you had to sign your life away for a new pair of shoes. I guess the Republikans turned it into a 3rd World charity.
No receipts required.
I’m not surprised. From what I hear the US shipped pallets of $100 bills over to Iraq for their economy and a lot turned up missing.
Surprise you doofusses what the hell did you think was going to happen.
We buy them guns and ship them over and I’m not allowed to buy one of those models (new) at any price. (Well, maybe if it is stolen.)
I have several. Got them cheap. Thanks, Obama.
Reminds me of one of my situation with a Mitsubishi dealership. I asked them what was included in the $750 charge of my coated wheels and got the reply “I don’t know. I don’t everything to tell you why it cost $750.” Well, fuck, so you charge customer whatever the hell you want and you call that fair? Or is it like that post like JCD posted a while back $.001=.001c?
This is coming from the best salesperson/manager at the dealership with the best reputation around southern california.
I’m not even the least bit surprise this happen with the guns.
dulfo…dude, this was during W’s watch…So thank GW for your cheap weapons.
First its laptops now its guns. I suppose F22 Raptor fighters will be next! Who side are these people on!!!
There are a lot of good guys in the military that protect our ass but unfortunately the nutballs have caused a lot of damage.
If our soldiers get killed by one of our weapons it would be the fault of incompetent bastards in the military, you know like the ones who loaded a live nuclear weapon on a bomber that flew over the U.S. without authorization. We need to drum these incompetent bastards out of the military or put them in Leavenworth.
Also, what about the ammo? A gun’s useless without ammo. Where the fuck is the ammo?
Hey, c’mon, Lets not politicize this. It could have happened to anyone.
Isn’t the military in the habit of charging wounded veterans for material lost in battle?
They’re all being sent back here to protect the masses against ObamaMania.
#11 Hey! Watch it. Omama was named gun salesman of the year.
Since we are there until the pipeline is built, used and abandoned, we might as well make sure everyone has weapons. This is why no one is surprised.
#13, No one is surprised because this all happened on Bush’s watch. His handling of the war. The same crap happened in Iraq.
# 14 Mr. Fusion said, “#13, No one is surprised because this all happened on Bush’s watch. His handling of the war. The same crap happened in Iraq.”
Bingo.
Oli’ North, was unavailable for comment.
Guns don’t kill people do
Why the worry?
If we don’t have the numbers from them do we know if we even got them or they even worked?
They may well be in the hands of people who will use them to kill our soldiers.
Very bad business practices.
Guns from US Army are will not go missing by accident, at least that many. Everything is kept counted and logged. But then there are those unmarked airplanes, mysterious vans with brown envelope destinations, semisecret ammunition and weapon depots. To fight war both sides also need weapons.
deja-vu? tip of the iceberg?…i’d quadrupal any numbers reported for more accurate numbers..
we still never got an answer for the pentagon’s missing $2.3t reported on sept 10, 2001 by rumsfeld. (now over $3t)
in 2005-2006, alot (13-14k i iirc) of weapons (mostly small arm and rpg type) went missing.
back then i think the DoD had only “registered” around 3%-4% of the weapons serial numbers -out of 250k-350k total
weapons. (i forget the exact numbers)
-add to that reports of spare parts for iraqi troops went missing in 2005-6, with some reports saying they were showing up in south America and it’s quite obvious someone is building or funding private Ops or armies..
dig around, it goes on alot more than one could imagine.