Who Hasn’t Been Doing Their PMCS?

According to the Chosun Ilbo, a lot of the prepositioned war stocks here in South Korea have fallen into a state of disrepair:

The majority of U.S. military hardware in South Korea fell into such a state of disrepair that it would have caused serious delays had any hostilities erupted, the Washington Post said Tuesday quoting classified internal audit reports.
The Post said the Pentagon and U.S. Congress continued to be misled by reports that readiness levels were high, even after an internal investigation in October last year found that 50-80 percent of heavy artillery and other weaponry were not “fully mission capable.”

The problem was aggravated during Washington’s large-scale shifting of arms and supplies from caches scattered around the world toward battle zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The important thing to remember is that this report covers the war stocks here in Korea. If the actual Army equipment being used here fell into this kind of disrepair then it would be time to really worry. The equipment in the war stocks just sit there down south and do not have people conducting regular maintenance on them, so it shouldn’t be to much of a surprise that they are not in great operational condition. Military equipment needs regular maintenance, the prepositioned stocks don’t get that thus leading to some of the problems cited.