*** I have been at a business conference all week that has consumed my attention. ***

The IG Report (May 2025) appended below reveals many shortfalls in the Gaza pier disaster from 2024. Trillions spent on so many toys and then we they receive the items and systems from the lowest bidder, the US Army can’t even be bothered to appoint responsible leadership, conduct the necessary training and bother to rehearse the utility of these Rube Goldberg contraptions.

The pier was only operational for about 20 days and cost about $230 million.

While there were no deaths or known direct attacks on the pier, the Pentagon had said three U.S. troops suffered non-combat injuries in support of the pier in May 2024, with one medically evacuated in critical condition. The new report by the Pentagon Inspector General said that the number was actually 62.

While embarrassing and revealing at the same time, it is yet another cog in the giant Pentagon machine that generates calvacades of calamities on a daily basis as almost a middle finger to the hundred of billions drained from living taxpayers and their unborn children burdened with the avalanche flow of deficit and debt incursion that characterizes the imperial American enterprise.

While DOD had run 11 JLOTS exercises in the decade prior to the Gaza operation, the 84-page report found, neither the Army nor the Navy JLOTS packages met service standards for mission readiness, including equipment mission-capable rates. The actual readiness rates and unit manning shortages are redacted in the report, but it does note that the lack of resourcing had clear consequences.

https://media.defense.gov/2025/May/06/2003704499/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2025-091_FINAL.PDF

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