Posted on 05/09/2025 5:06:27 AM PDT by texas booster
Joe Biden’s floating aid pier in Gaza, which was only operational for 20 days in the summer of 2024, was a much bigger failure than initially reported, according to a new Pentagon Inspector General report.
More than 60 service members were injured and one died during non-combat duties on the mission, according to the Pentagon IG, although the manner of the injuries was not clear.
“Based on the information provided, we were not able to determine which of these 62 injuries occurred during the performance of duties or resulted off duty or from pre-existing medical conditions,” the report said.
Army Sgt. Quandarius Stanley was “critically injured in May when high winds and heavy seas damaged the pier, causing four Army vessels to become beached,” The Air Force Times reported. Stanley died from the injuries he sustained months later.
The Navy reported damage to 27 boats and Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS) equipment totaling about $31 million, according to the Times. The Army’s damage assessment is redacted.
Plagued by bad weather, the 1,200-foot-long floating pier reportedly had to be removed multiple times due to high winds and sea.
The Pentagon IG found that mission planners failed to identify such environmental factors, and that Army and Navy equipment malfunctioned because it was “not interoperable.” Lack of training and resources also reportedly hindered the operation’s success.
The Inspector General said that the U.S. military under Biden failed to “organize, train, and equip their forces to meet common joint standards.”
The pier debacle became a major embarrassment to the Biden administration, with congressional Republicans branding it a political stunt to placate the Democrats’ pro-Hamas base during an election year.
The link to the report, as mentioned in the article.
SMH.
Biden and his handlers proved stunningly capable when targeting fellow Americans.
<><>managing to stop the congressionally approved border wall,
<><>subverting federal immigration law,
<><>emasculating the border patrol,
<><>ensuring global millions could waltz into the US, unaudited with complete impunity.
<><>10-12 million were paraded into the US by the Biden administration.
Alas, Biden flopped bigtime wrt the Afghanistan debacle:
<><>13 Marines needlessly killed
<><>abandoning to the terrorist Taliban $50 billion in advanced US munitions,
<><>a billion-dollar embassy,
<><>and a $300 million retrofitted huge US airbase.
Now that Biden is safely out of office and it doesn’t matter, all these “new” reports can come out to reveal the extent of his incompetence.
“The Pentagon IG found that mission planners failed to identify such environmental factors, and that Army and Navy equipment malfunctioned because it was “not interoperable.” Lack of training and resources also reportedly hindered the operation’s success.”
Classic DEI results. It should be noted that this is the military that the Zeepers want us to go to war with.
“Biden’s Floating Pier Debacle in Gaza Was Even Worse Than We Thought; IG Report”
Like everything done by that treasonous administration.
Let’s face it. This was not Biden’s failure. It was a military failure under his command. Thank God for Pete Hedgpeth!! He is taking out the trash.
A common finding that is repeated throughout the report is the Army and Navy did not meet common training standards. I cry BS! They both had DEI and CRT training and that was the most important training of all.
EC
The only purpose for that pier that was ever realized, was as target practice for Hamas militants. Even if unintended, nothing else ever came of it.
Cut loose, left to drift out into the Mediterranean to sink. Was ANYTHING ever salvaged from the wreckage?
Could have spent the money a lot better in Baltimore, after the Francis Scott Key bridge was demolished.
Should have employed Sea Bees.
Can Do
DEI on the docks?
I think they were smuggling arms in there with that project. Would they? You bet they would...
The floating pier was designed to handle class three waves. The Mediterranean Sea has class four waves. A high schooler could have told you that this would not work.
Embarrassed? Liberals are incapable of introspection. They wear there stupidity like it’s a badge of honor.
I feel sorry for all the sailors and soldiers that had to work every day on a project that was doomed before it started. Talk about a morale crushing job “ Build an unsustainable dock on a shore where you can’t build defenses against people who celebrate death and are holding your fellow citizens hostage. I’d like to read how the Joint Chiefs framed that mission statement.
[snip] ...was only operational for 20 days in the summer of 2024... More than 60 service members were injured and one died during non-combat duties on the mission... "Based on the information provided, we were not able to determine which of these 62 injuries occurred during the performance of duties or resulted off duty or from pre-existing medical conditions,| the report said. [/snip]
I told everyone back then that this would cost us over 1 billion dollars before it was over and it looks like I was right.
Too busy trying to meet discriminatory DEI quotas to pay attention to common joint standards to hold the pier together.
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