NY Times Magazine Analysis: US Lost 700K Weapons in Middle East
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PFC Kevin Carrin with the U.S. Army's 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division keeps watch during patrol across barren foothills outside of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Shank to look for positions the enemy has used to send rockets onto the FOB on March 30, 2014 near Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
By Cathy Burke | Wednesday, 24 Aug 2016 12:04 PM
The Pentagon has provided 1.45 million firearms to security forces in Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11, but has records for only about 700,000 — and what guns the military lost track of often found their way onto black market arms bazaars, according to a New York Times Magazine analysis.
According to the Times, the bungled military accounting of its own weaponry was discovered in a a tally of 14 years' worth of Pentagon contract data on small arms for U.S. troops and their related partners by Iain Overton, a former BBC journalist who heads an anti-weapons proliferation group in London called Action on Armed Violence.
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