DoD Office of Inspector General Report On Military Readiness

      Listed below is a short reminder of how much that group on the Republican side of the isle cares about our military. I am posting bits and pieces of this report from the  Department of Defense Office of Inspector General so the next time that some un-educated Fox News viewer tells you that the Democrats do not support the U.S. troops in Iraq, you can show them just how much their beloved Bush Crime Family members care.

    The Democrats, by making sure that our troops have the proper equipment and training to go into Iraq is the only way of showing that anyone cares about OUR people! That asshole in the White House certainly isn't doing it! Hell! He won't even take care of the troops that we have here in the United States in our military hospitals!

                                    

Department of Defense Office of Inspector General                                The Entire Report (PDF)      January 25,2007

We performed this audit to determine whether units deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan were equipped in accordance with mission requirements. Based on responses from approximately 1,100 Service members, they experienced shortages of force-protection equipment, such as up-armored vehicles, electronic countermeasure devices, crew-served weapons, and communications equipment. As a result, Service
members were not always equipped to effectively complete their missions.

We also recommend that the Commander, U.S. Central Command enforce policy requiring units rotating into theater to conduct a review of
current theater requirements for up-armored vehicles, individual body armor, and electronic countermeasure devices within 60 days of arrival in their area of responsibility; obtain those updated requirements in a timely manner; confirm the validity of current theater requirements for sourcing; and provide the updated requirements to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Headquarters, Department of the Army so that the validated theater requirements can be satisfied (finding A).

The Request for Forces process did not always ensure that Service members who performed missions that they do not traditionally perform --such as training, provincial reconstruction, detainee operations, and explosive ordnance disposal --received the equipment necessary to perform their wartime mission. As a result, Service members
performed missions without the proper equipment, used informal procedures to obtain equipment and sustainment support, and canceled or postponed missions while waiting to receive equipment. We recommend that the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness develop and implement policy that addresses inter-Service responsibilities for funding, equipping, and sustaining forces performing nontraditional missions. We also recommend that the Commander, U.S. Central Command enforce existing policies

Scope Limitations. The Multi-National Corps-Iraq and the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan command staff limited the locations we visited, the units we reviewed, and the number of Service members who participated in sensing sessions because of scheduled operational missions, safety concerns, and availability of transportation. As a result, we interviewed available Service members.

                    * * * *

   Our warmongering president likes to send people into gunfights with the equivalent of knives for weapons.  

   I will be posting more of this report on Friday.

 

Technorati tags: DoD, Inspector General Report, Iraq war, Afghanistan, Military Readiness