Supply chains gone awry in Iraq...Thanks NY Times

“This was the craziest thing in the world,” said John Tisdale, a retired
Air Force master sergeant who managed an adjacent warehouse. “They were taking
weapons away by the truckload.”
Activities at that armory and other
warehouses help explain how the American military lost track of some 190,000
pistols and automatic rifles supplied by the United States to Iraq’s security
forces in 2004 and 2005, as auditors discovered in the past year.