Pentagon miscounted troops deployed for Harvey relief: report
By Ellen Mitchell - 09/01/17 03:12 PM EDT
The Pentagon accidentally miscounted the number of active-duty troops that were deployed to help in Texas and Louisiana following Hurricane Harvey, CNN reported.
U.S. Northern Command said Thursday that the U.S. military had deployed more than 6,300 active duty troops, but had actually only deployed 1,638 as of 7 a.m. Friday.
Pentagon spokesman Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis told CNN that “an accounting error” caused the miscalculation. Some National Guard forces were double-counted as active duty troops, he said.
“In a fast-moving response such as this, some people were inadvertently double-counted on a spreadsheet,” Davis said in a statement. “We have corrected our process to ensure this doesn't happen again.”
Davis insisted that “an accounting error doesn't lessen the impact of our response.”
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