Technical failures and maintenance problems have been discovered in military equipment issued to US forces stationed in Europe immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine about a year ago. This is what the Pentagon’s inspector general stated in a recently published report.
The inspector general assessed how the Army Sustainment Command and the Army’s 405th Sustainment Support Brigade maintained the stockpile of equipment pre-positioned in Europe, according to the report. When the war broke out last February, the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division deployed to Eastern Europe and received thousands of Equipment items from a warehouse in Germany.
“The 405th AFSB, the logistics unit stationed in Germany, quickly issued equipment to the 1st Armored Division’s combat team,” the report said.[אתר הצבא המוצב מראש בגרמניה] was not ready for the task. We found that the 405 AFSB could improve equipment maintenance processes.”
The day after the Russian invasion, the Pentagon pledged to deploy 7,000 troops to Eastern Europe. As part of that deployment, the Army for the first time in history issued equipment from the German inventory site to soldiers deployed to the eastern flank of Europe. According to a report by militarytimes.
The report also revealed that the equipment’s maintenance requirement during storage did not meet the army’s maintenance standard. The logistics unit was not ready for the deployment of the soldiers. There were no coordinated procedures and schedules for preparing and issuing equipment.