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Citing a report last month from the Department of Defense’s Office of the Inspector General, Ernst demanded answers regarding the shipment of “substandard equipment” to Taiwan between November 2023 and March 2024, including “moldy” body armor and other water-damaged equipment.Defense failed to follow established guidelines for delivering military assistance to Taiwan,” she wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Aside from reputational damage to the United States, the report found that it cost taxpayers $730,000 in attempts to clean and salvage the damaged body armor. She said the failure also threatened to have wider strategic implications at a time when tensions with China were rising.
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