Hamas Pier: It’s a Wrap
Vice Adm. Brad Cooper: The pier has done exactly what we intended it to do
What did the US military’s Gaza aid pier actually accomplish?
By Noah Robertson and Geoff Ziezulewicz
When President Joe Biden announced the mission to build a humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza this March, he framed it as a symbol of what the U.S. military can do.
Palestinian civilians were dying five months into the Israel-Hamas war. Most of the territory was struggling to get food or near famine. And Israel wasn’t opening more land routes for assistance to flow in.
So the U.S. would make a route of its own.
“This temporary pier would enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day,” Biden said during his State of the Union speech.
Instead, four months later, the pier’s mission is over and its clearest legacy is what wasn’t possible.
Despite the work of 1,000 U.S. soldiers and sailors using the Joint-Logistics-Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS, capability, the pier couldn’t stay afloat for long due to choppy seas. And while it got aid into the Gaza Strip, it couldn’t fix another intractable problem: actually getting it to the Palestinian people..
If the entire effort was to showcase the current administration’s stunning lack of anything resembling a foreign policy and its inability to effectively use the military, well done Admiral. Have another star for your LOM.
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Yeah, those damn Isrealis. If only they wouldn’t have kicked off a war with a surprise invasion that specifically and deliberately targeted non-combatants for murder and abduction, none of this would be happening.
Oh, wait….
(/sarc for those who need it)
It was cheap entertainment too, it only cost us $1 each to watch them f*** everything up. I’m mostly happy because Harris was not a charge of it. If she had been they would have taken over the pier and sailed it back to the United States loaded down with gazans.
Any idea how many millions of dollars it cost per truck load of aid?
We will never really know the answer to that. If we use the April cost which was $320 million so far, divide that by 20 million pounds, we come up with $16 a pound for aid delivered. Which doesn’t actually include the cost of the aid. I’m thinking Uber Eats would have been cheaper, They spam me with discounts all the time.
None of the math really adds up. The Navy says that they were delivering half a million pounds a day, but they were only working for 20 days out of the 60 that the pier was actually supposed to be functioning, which means that it was only 10 million pounds. But even if it ain’t been a hundred million pounds it was all laying rotting on beach, so there you go.
Thank you for putting the math to that shit show.
Tell you what, I am legitimately no-shit-surprised that some sort of Gazan resettlement program didn’t grow out of this shit show.
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Do they have to have a mailbox door as well?
At least it didn’t cost us any American lives. All things considered with this current administration, that makes this a stunning success.
Pretty sad that that is how low the bar is, but you’re not wrong..
It a-piers that the press will ignore this boondoggle and waste of money and time, just like everything this administration does.
Sitting on the dock of the bay
Watching America’s credibility float away
“Vice Adm. Brad Cooper: The pier has done exactly what we intended it to do”
I don’t understand the problem…that’s an entirely true statement.
The “pier” was intended to virtue signal to the Democratic base how much the Biden Administration cares about those poor downtrodden terrorists.
Mission Accomplished.
Sorry Sailorcurt, I had not read your post until I had posted mine.
Great minds and all that…
I was hoping for a benefit concert.
Could have called it “Live Pier”
The hot wash for this duster luck should be a Pier Review.
Good thing the Royal Navy didn’t build a nearby quay.
That could have led to a Pier or Near Pier conflict.
Bravo Zulu to the contractor companies that provided critical support in this successful humanitarian operation. Let’s give it up to All Points Logistics for their critical support in keeping the supply chain functioning, and of course, on site security provided by Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency.
Made me laugh Hack! I needed that today.
Well, looking forward to not hearing about this shitshow ever again, at least.
LOM? More like DDSM. This will continue to be pitched as a great success, and any GO/FO involved will likely get at least a DSSM. At those levels, LOMs are like trinkets to be passed out to their Chiefs of Staff and Senior Enlisted Advisors at retirement.
The pier has proven as successful as Biden’s bid for reelection, at least, and it didn’t cost the lives that his botched Afghanistan withdrawal did.
At least it didn’t cost the lives that his botched Afghanistan withdrawal did, as far as we know.
FIFY
I picked a prize from the second shelf for Brad’s rack on purpose.
*grin*
“Vice Adm. Brad Cooper: The pier has done exactly what we intended it to do”
Yes, prove how fucking incompetent the administration is.
What would Piers Morgan have to say about this?
I see what you did there.
Tox is many things. Subtle isn’t one of them.
Yep. I’m from the Marx Brothers school of comedy. Always loved them boys.
Epic fail. So yeah…in that aspect… the mission was successful.
Currently being purchased by the same scrap metal dealer that bought the unconstructed parts of the border fence.
Totally makes sense. He can then repurpose it and use it as a bridge to cross the Rio Grande. That way nobody has to get wet.
Maybe if Kamala wins in November she’ll make it a priority.
“The pier has done exactly what we intended it to do.” I think the good Admiral was watching another channel. It was nothing more than virtue signaling from FJB and company, to make it look like we were doing something. Mind you, not doing anything to help Israel, but to help the terrorists. Why? Because…the children. I am trying to hold back tears thinking of the innocent, yet fucked up Palestinians who voted these ass clowns into power. Screw them and they get what’s coming to them.
Oh well
I just hope (a bad battle plan, I know) that they look closely at this and figure out how to fix the issues.
Being able to set up a pier (or 6) on any shoreline is a major logistical advantage.
This provided valuable information.