#lost weapons

$1 Billion of Military Equipment Go Missing from Assistance Packages in Iraq

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“ARMY TIMES”

“Defense Department Inspector General report, reveals more than $1 billion in rifles, vehicles and ammunition were not properly tracked and accounted for.

Equipment transfers included tens of thousands of assault rifles, hundreds of mortar rounds and hundreds of armored Humvees destined for the Iraqi army and Kurdish peshmerga forces.

“This audit provides a worrying…