Biden’s Gaza Pier Doomed to Fail
Operation Neptune Solace Fiasco
A new, scathing Pentagon report reveals the temporary pier the US military deployed to Gaza was more dangerous than previously known.
The Pentagon’s inspector general’s office released a report that said a total of 62 people were injured during the deployment.
The pier, called Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS), was ordered to be sent to Gaza by the White House in March of 2024 to help deliver humanitarian aid.
From the beginning, it was obvious this was a bad choice.
Biden Gaza pier fiasco left 62 US forces injured, one dead and caused $31M in damages: report
By Caitlin Doornbos
WASHINGTON — Former President Joe Biden’s failed floating Gaza pier plan left 62 US personnel injured, one service member dead and caused at least $31 million in damage to military equipment, according to a scathing Pentagon watchdog report that found the Army and Navy failed to properly plan, train for, prepare for and coordinate the mission.
The project, which Biden announced during his 2024 State of the Union address amid mounting protests on the left over Israel’s war against Hamas, sought to deliver humanitarian aid to the terrorist-controlled enclave — but ultimately was functional for just 20 days before being abandoned.
The Defense Department Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) report, released late Tuesday, found that the military services were not adequately prepped for the mission — dubbed Operation Neptune Solace — but the project moved ahead despite the Army and Navy facing “low equipment mission-capable rates and low manning and training levels.”
“The Army and Navy did not allocate sufficient maintenance, manning, [or] training,” according to the report, which also found that the services “did not organize, train, and equip to a common joint standard” for the so-called “joint logistics over-the-shore” (JLOTS) operation.
The disjointed nature of the effort contributed to 27 watercraft and other paraphernalia suffering damage costing $31 million to repair, the report found, as “Army- and Navy-specific equipment, including watercraft, piers, and causeways, as well as command, control, and communications systems was not interoperable.”
This week’s report follows a similar review by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of the Inspector General from August 2024 — which found Biden charged ahead with the $230 million pier despite the urgings of multiple federal aid workers.
According to sources most of the humanitarian aid brought ashore via the pier was stolen enroute to UN warehouses anyway. Well done, Joe.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Gaza 2023, Good Idea Fairy
The footage of the theft of the “aid” by hamas and other bandits was rather telling. Like pretty much everything else biden touched, it all went to crap.
King Midas In Reverse, as the Hollies presciently called him in 1967.
Or the Taliban and others that most normal people would consider not friendly.
Afghanistan withdrawal, Gaza pier, recruiting numbers that fell off a cliff, and not a single person has been held accountable. Our military couldn’t afford any more Biden years.
Or Harris or “donkey-faced” AOC years for that matter.
That was a classic military boondoggle. The media really missed a chance to call it that.
I guess the only thing we can be thankful for is that it was used for a “humanitarian operation,” and not a real war fighting mission.
We haven’t had any military in a combat zone for like a really long time according to the next Governor of California
I work with a few people who would beg to differ.
Some of us were forced to execute the “Boon-Doggle” mission despite continuous staff advisory that the weather and sea conditions would not support the exercise. We got handed our coloring books, and told to “Shut up and color”… despite the Marines stealing all the crayons!
Us Marines gotta eat.
Yes but do you have to put the crayon in your nose first? That is gross.
Hey, snot is an important source of protein. 😉
Bet you can’t eat just one.
Boogers or crayons?
Seeing how the media is staffed by our ruling class (and other sycophants), they’d never call out the Brandon admin, even when most of the general US populace saw how bad of an idea it was beforehand. But, the dems will likely memory hole this disaster. Pretend like it never happened and claim they never failed on foreign policy. Nothin’ to see here. Carry on.
New collective training task just dropped:
Task: Deliver highly pilferable aid to terrorists.
Conditions: given insufficient planning, inoperable equipment, no training, an opposing force who 1) hates us and 2) has no regard for their own citizenry, and an inept civil governance
Standards: None
You left out “All service members participating in this operation must be 100% compliant with DEI Training Standards.”
File under “Things even Stevie Wonder could see.”
I’d support legislation requiring those who are responsible for such blatant blue falcons to have their bank accounts seized to pay costs and reparations.
And despite DoD claims of severe storms and high winds.
The weather was fairly calm. Easy to verify.
Stolen weather valor.
😆
What a shit show.
Haiti-surplus crap.
There was no Haiti-surplus crap. It was all sold to shore up the Clinton fund.
And not a single flag or field grade office spoke up and said “Sir, this is a colossally bad idea”.
Maybe some of those flag and field grade officers Hegseth is firing are being shown the door for just that reason.
They can go cry with the asshats that planned the Afghanistan “withdrawal”.
True that.
Let’s hope so.
Come to think of it, what of anything Biden touched or did that DIDN’T turn to complete shit?
I wonder (by comparison, out of curiosity) how many— if any— allied servicemen died setting up the Mulberry Harbor off Normandy or the breakwaters and pontoon bridges leading to the beaches? How many died in the storms that tore them apart in the days after D-Day?
This seemed straightforward compared to that.
Fuck…
