US Army lost track of $1 billion worth of arms & equipment in Iraq, Kuwait

 

A newly released declassified audit from the US Department of Defense shows that negligent accounting by the military has resulted in the Pentagon not knowing what happened to more than $1 billion in arms and equipment meant for the Iraqi Army.

 

The Office of Inspector General for the Pentagon’s findings from September 2016 was made public Wednesday as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from human rights group Amnesty International.

Over $1 billion worth of arms and military equipment designated under the Iraq Train and Equip Fund (ITEF) and meant to assist the Iraqi government in combatting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), was not accounted for, the DOD audit found.

https://www.rt.com/usa/389643-amnesty-army-lost-billion-arms-iraq/

US army pays out £567,000 to woman sacked for reporting sexual harassment

The United States army has paid £567,000 in damages to a female former trainee who said she was sacked after reporting a superior officer for sexual harassment.

 

Lyudmila Starkey sued the army claiming that she lost her job after alleging that Sergeant Wayne Lord, a supervising officer, had sent her hundreds of sexually explicit text messages and nude photos of himself when they worked together at Presidio of Monterey, an army base in California.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12152875/US-army-pays-out-567000-to-woman-sacked-for-reporting-sexual-harassment.html