General Mark Milley, the top officer in the US military, downplayed reports that the Pentagon lost track of nearly 2,000 weapons in the 2010s – some later used in crimes – insisting the true figure is “significantly” lower.
Testifying at a Senate committee hearing on Thursday, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was asked about a recent Associated Press investigation, which claimed that at least 1,900 small arms had gone missing from military facilities during the previous decade. The weapons included rifles, shotguns, pistols, machine guns and even grenade…
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