Meaning they didn’t count each and every weapon fired and record exactly which Russian it hit.
That’s peanuts compared to what they “lost” in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Hmmmm… where have I heard this before? 🤔
Oh! Right!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1
"The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.
. . .
In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover."
It’s almost like the people in charge of this kind of thing REALLY should not be in charge of this kind of thing…
This is dumb. Most likely they just weren’t catalogued correctly because they were rushing stuff to the front lines. Doubtful anything went missing it’s just paperwork errors.
Or - and this is heavily documented - the US Military has never passed any audit since they began being audited. This is just part of that.
Doesn’t mean we don’t support Ukraine. Just means we need to hold the military accountable for the funds provided.
the US Military has never passed any audit since they began being audited. This is just part of that.
That’s mainly because there’s a shit ton of agencies in the DOD, and they send money between themselves and non DOD agencies constantly.
If I pay you $100, but we lose the reciept, there’s no missing money. Just a missing receipt.
However for those government audits, if we both were part of it then we’d each be off by $100. And rather than cancel those, they add them together and say combined we’re “missing” $200
So the public hears about these huge numbers that probably don’t matter, and hardly anyone hears the actual number of missing money to know if we really should be mad.
I’ve seen dod finance. The amount of paperwork to move money within an agency is ridiculous. Between is even more. If they don’t have a receipt, it’s deliberate or gross negligence.
I’ve seen dod finance
If you had “seen” it, you’d know not to say that randomly on a public social media website.
You’d also know what you’re talking about…
Til being a low level bureaucrat or military member is unheard of and absolutely never talked about online.
