Senior Airman Daniel Stehley, of the 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron munitions flight, spray paints build codes on inert guided bomb units after helping assemble each weapon at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., on Feb. 27, 2012. Senior Airman Kenny Holston, U.S. Air Force
U.S. News and World Report: U.S. Raiding Worldwide Weapons Stockpiles for ISIS War
The intensity of the ISIS campaign has required the Pentagon to draw from its stores around the globe.
Shortages of bombs and other munitions have forced the U.S. military to pull weapons from headquarters in other parts of the world to sustain its 2 1/2-year-old air campaign against the Islamic State group, despite billions of dollars invested in increasing the stockpiles.
"We are concerned, worldwide, when looking at ammunition needs," Deborah James, the former head of the Air Force, said in an interview shortly before stepping down from her position last month. "We've been expending so many in the Middle East we've had to borrow in some cases from other areas."
"What we want to do is replenish," James says.
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WNU Editor: Oh oh. I guess I was right when I explained this .... U.S. A-10s Used Depleted Uranium Rounds On Two Airstrikes In Syria In 2015 (February 16, 2017).
