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Inventory Management: Handheld Missiles Are Vulnerable to Theft and Undetected Losses

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 16, 1994
Report No. NSIAD-94-100
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Summary:

Among other discrepancies, 40 deadly Stinger missiles shipped to the Middle East during the Persian Gulf War could not be accounted for when GAO visited military storage sites to check the inventory of handheld missiles--the Stinger, Redeye, and Dragon. In all, inventory records differed from GAO's physical count by thousands of missiles. The military services do not know how many of these missiles they have in their possession because they have not established systems to track the missiles produced, fired, destroyed, sold, and transferred by serial number. Lax military oversight and recordkeeping have left these missiles, which are in demand by terrorists and drug dealers, vulnerable to theft.

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