More than 60 service members were injured as a part of former President Joe Biden’s floating aid pier in Gaza, a Pentagon Inspector General report published on Tuesday said, a number significantly higher than had been previously disclosed.
The pier, announced by Biden during a televised address to Congress in March 2024, was a massive endeavor that took about 1,000 U.S. forces to execute.
Video here.
“The pier was only operational for about 20 days ”
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This is incorrect. The pier was operational for a grand total of about 8.5 days. Within the span that they totaled 20 days were three separate shut downs for repairs. The cumulative accurate total was 8 1/2 days.
Short answer: this was an election year performance with little to no substantive purpose other than to appease the democrat base.
In other words the hallmark of Democrats…..all at the expense of taxpayers of course.
This is called democrat pier review.
Trust the silence.
Good lord. We built a floating pier that didn’t even extend past the breakwater!? If THIS is the best and the brightest the US Armed Forces can muster … We’ll get wiped out by the ChiComs. Does our Navy even UNDERSTAND how the ocean works?
I bet their pronouns, which was the focus of Milley were fabulous.
Kenji, the US military probably thought it was building the pier in the Sea of Tranquility.
They were building it for the “peaceful” Hamas-supporting Muslims … so yeah … they were sure to confuse rough seas with tranquility
Yes, a complete and utter failure, but the way those port-a-johns withstand those waves without tipping is quite impressive! U.S. ACOE for the win!
Other people’s money.
Other people’s kids.
Eggs/omelets. And it was a US Army operation. Ships, assemblers, all of it.
Not dragging on the forces involved in this clusterfvck. There is simply no good place to put something like this along the Gaza coast. It was a quarter billion dollar photo op. SloJoe may have mouthed the words but his owner/operators wrote them.
Reuters is white-washing President Biden’s virtue-signaling response to the Gaza “crisis”. The pier was never designed to be functional in the Med, particularly at that time of year. But the Biden admin pushed on, regardless of cost, ability to actually be functional, and the risk to US personnel.
Actually, when one looks at President Biden’s term in office, ignorance of those three parameters is actually the norm for his administration.
Aid Evil and reap the results.
The Port of Gauze
For $230 million you’d think they could have built a concrete one. Looking at that thing, I’m surprised nobody drowned.