DoD fails audit, sees Ukraine as ‘teachable moment’ in accountability
We can learn a lot from Ukraine. Apparently the current lesson to learn is that we need to stop wasting so much money. No, not like that, like in the way that we got a lot of shit and don’t know where it is.
From Defense News;
As the Pentagon racked up its fifth comprehensive audit failure, its chief financial officer on Tuesday said Ukraine’s fight against Russia offers a “teachable moment” for the U.S. military to accurately tally its weapons and property.
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The audit, which covered the department’s $3.5 trillion in assets and $3.7 trillion in liabilities, involved 1,600 auditors conducting 220 in-person site visits and 750 virtual site visits. The Pentagon inspector general and independent public accounting firms performed the audit, which was expected to cost $218 million this year.
The 27 individual audits that comprise the effort yielded nine clean opinions, one modified opinion and disclaimers for the rest, which McCord said was on par with last year’s results. The number of the DoD’s material weaknesses also stayed steady at 28.
“I would say we failed to get an ‘A,’ ” McCord said. “I would not say that we flunked. The process is important for us to do, and it is making us get better. It is not making us get better as fast as we want.”
Only in government work can you be such a failure over and over again and it’s just *shurg* “That’s the way it goes.”
Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Pentagon
Quote: “Only in government work can you be such a failure over and over again and it’s just *shurg* “That’s the way it goes.”
Yep. Sounds about right.
Also, do NOT fix that type. Shurg > Shrug. The gummint doesn’t shrug. It SHURGS. Srsly.
ISWYD, aka ‘eggs in the basket’.
If you’re a person of a certain level of morality, do not look any of this up.
LoL – being a person of a certain level of morality, I guess I made a joke I don’t fully understand. But I will take your advice and remain ignorant. 😅
So… what I hear them saying is that they’ve passed the event horizon of a malfeasance blackhole. (see image, sorry not sorry/IYKYK)
Looking forward to Lambo tactical vics with Louis XIII as a primary coolant.
I’m old enough to remember what happened to the Pent-a-gone last time trillions were missing, jussayin.
Only lesson that will be learned is how to better hide the thievery.
Wonder how many audits 87K new IRS (armed) agents can conduct?
NONE… on the Pentagon at least.. they’ll all be busy going after Trump voters.
IDK, but I like the way you think. Sending them all to the Ukraine is an idea for the ages.
We would need some embedded reporters to make it perfect!
I think back to the $hit hitting the fan when a floor buffer went missing.
I think I mentioned this before. SecDef Donald Rumsfeld testified to congress that $2 trillion simply could not be accounted for by DoD. That was on Sept 10, 2001. The whole matter was forgotten the next day.
Have they looked under the seat cushions of the couch in the Day Room. You never know what you’ll find there.
Discarded Gatorade spit bottles and empty Copenhagen cans?
Don’t forget used condoms.
No he didn’t, where do you guys come up with this bullshit? What he said was that Congress couldn’t track the Federal Budget from the Capitol Building. The Entire Federal Budget that year was $2.3 Trillion. He never said anything was missing.
The DOD budget that year was about $335B. How the fuk would they be missing $2.3T from a budget of $335B?
A ‘teachable momemt’. Man…..3/6’s leadership lost TWO rifles and got shitcanned. Austin’s DOD loses BILLIONS in assets and no one bats an eye.
This is my go-to comment for these types of fiscal threads:
Let’s see an E3/E4 shrug off a 31 day old, 91¢ delinquency, on their travel card.
Exactly!
It’s not just the Pentagon, apparently
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/state-dept-refuses-audit-1-billion-spent-taliban-afghanistan
I didn’t know you could just refuse. Next time the IRS calls to set up an audit, I can just say “Nope.”
So far NATO has sent 90K anti-tank weapons to the Ukraine. This enough to kill every single tank and armored vehicle in all of Russia at least 6X. I am willing to bet they can’t account for half of them.
In good news, there are certainly a lot of dead Russian armored vehicles.
Hmmm…may be able to pick up some good deals on that Dark Web thingie I hear so much about!🤣
How many do you think the ‘peaceful’ ‘refugees’ in West ETO have and what will be their first ‘expression of gratitude’?
If I had to guess, Nuremberg or Dresden Christmas Market or maybe a VIP on the tarmac at de Gaulle…
Accountability? Ukraine, the most corrupt sh*thole of all the former Soviet republics? Holy bejeezus balz, that’s funny! 🙂