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Assessment of arms, ammunition, and explosives accountability and control, security assistance, and sustainment for the Afghan National Security Forces.

Article Excerpt
[The following are excerpts from the Executive Summary of the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General Report No. SPO-2009-001, Project No. D2008-D000IG-0141.001, October 24, 2008. The entire report is available at: www.dodig.osd.mil/Audit/reports/.]

Who Should Read This Report?

Personnel within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) and its subordinate Commands in Afghanistan, the Military Departments, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-International Security Assistance Force (NATO-ISAF) who are responsible for property accountability and control, the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program supporting Afghanistan, and the development of the logistics and medical sustainment bases within the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) should read this report.

Background

The DoD Office of Inspector General (DoD IG) performed an assessment of the control and accountability of arms, ammunition, and explosives (we did not include an evaluation of explosives in our assessment) in Iraq in September and October 2007. The results of that assessment and recommendations for corrective actions were published in DoD IG Report No. SPO-2008-001, Assessment of the Accountability of Arms and Ammunition Provided to the Security Forces of Iraq, July 3, 2008.

The IG assembled an assessment team in February 2008 to determine the status of the corrective actions being implemented for the accountability and control of arms, ammunition, and explosives being transferred to the Iraq Security Forces. Before returning to Iraq, the assessment team...

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