Logistician: CENTCOM lacks 'munitions sufficient to execute the fight'

By Courtney McBride / June 6, 2016 at 11:13 AM
U.S. Central Command is "short" on munitions and is struggling to adequately resource the fight, according to its chief logistician. Maj. Gen. Aundre Piggee, speaking at an Association of the United States Army event on June 2, said, "I could talk ad nauseam about munitions. But we're short." "We don't have the munitions sufficient to execute the fight, and we're challenged to get it to the local places that we need to," Piggee said. "Prepositioned stocks continue to be important,...

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