Mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles are staged at an Army pre-positioned stocks site in 2018, at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. (Courtesy of the U.S. Army)
Defense One: Misfiring Cannons, Rotted Tires Among US Army Gear Pulled for Ukraine, Watchdog Finds
It’s not the first time the unit and its contractor have been faulted for poorly maintained equipment by the service's inspector general. When technicians got a look at one U.S. Army howitzer set to ship to Ukraine, it wasn’t pretty.
The M777 cannon, which an Army contractor was presenting for inspection, “would have killed somebody” if it were fired, the technicians said, according to a recent report by the Defense Department’s inspector general.
The investigation details numerous failures by an Army unit and a contractor that could have endangered the lives of Ukrainian or U.S. troops if the faulty equipment had been fielded. The report also exposes problems with a program designed to help soldiers deploy quickly across the world.
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Update: Equipment for Ukraine drawn from Kuwait wasn’t combat-ready, IG says (Defense News)
WNU Editor: For the past few months I have been reading reports from Ukraine that there are problems with US military equipment. My gut tells me that the above inspector general report is just the tip of the iceberg.