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| US Resupplies Israel With Munitions As Gaza Op Continues |
| 2014-07-31 |
| [Ynet] American defense official says Israel received access to strategic reserves of grenades and mortar rounds. The United States has allowed Israel to tap a local US arms stockpile in the past week to resupply it with grenades and mortar rounds, a US defense official said on Thursday. The munitions were located inside Israel as part of a program managed by the US military and called War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I), which stores munitions locally for US use that Israel can also access in emergency situations. Israel, however, did not cite an emergency when it made its latest request about 10 days ago, the defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... The United States allowed Israel to access the strategic stockpile anyway to resupply itself with 40mm grenades and 120mm mortar rounds to deplete older stocks that would eventually need to be refreshed. "They didn't ask for it from there but we gave it to them so we could rotate our stocks," the official said. Additional Israeli requests for US-manufactured ammunition were also being processed in the United States, the official said. The official did not offer further details on quantities or costs of ammunition already supplied or requested. Israel's embassy in Washington declined comment about the resupply request, including whether it asked for the ammunition because of its operations in Gazoo. Separately, US politicians were working in Congress to provide millions of dollars in additional funding for the Iron Dome missile shield. The US Senate Appropriations Committee added $225 million for Iron Dome to a spending bill intended mainly to provide money to handle an influx of thousands of Central American children across the US-Mexico border. According to the Gazoo Health Ministry, 1,346 Paleostinians, mostly civilians, have been killed since Israel began its offensive on July 8 with the declared aim of halting cross-border rocket fire and destroying the tunnel network of the Islamist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. On the Israeli side, 56 soldiers and three civilians have been killed. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 They didn't ask for it from there but we gave it to them so we could rotate our stocks First in, First out. very basic inventory control. Also removes the dreaded 'best if used by' shelf life thingy.... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2014-07-31 20:56 |
| #3 Champ is a spokesperson for Jarrett. |
| Posted by: TopRev 2014-07-31 13:00 |
| #2 He does now, or at least when he gets in from the back nine. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-31 09:01 |
| #1 I wonder if Champ knows? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-07-31 08:15 |