After details of a classified report were revealed by a lawmaker, Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch stated that the United States has tracked 60% of what it has sent to Ukraine.
The aid includes weapons designed to target Russia's unnamed systems, as well as electronic warfare detection equipment, mine-clearing devices, drones, and technology to secure lines of communication.
The House Oversight Committee demanded on Wednesday that the Pentagon, State Department and US Agency for International Development prove that the $113 billion in military and economic aid allocated to Ukraine isn’t being lost to “waste, fraud, and abuse.”
An unsecured government cloud email server that contained approximately three terabytes of internal U.S. military emails, including a completed SF-86 questionnaire with sensitive personnel information, was connected to the internet without a password for two weeks, potentially exposing this sensitive data to anyone who knew its IP address.
The US military has reported more than 15,000 service members overdosing on illicit drugs in the past five years, with 332 deaths, as Fentanyl overdose deaths have doubled since 2017, particularly among white male soldiers under 33 years old, and military bases hosting elite soldiers bore higher concentrations of overdoses, with the need for greater attention and resources to address the overdose crisis in the military becoming more pressing.
