Large stockpile of ICBM missile parts worth $53M erroneously marked as 'not working' at Hill AFB

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — A recently completed audit on the U.S. military discovered a large cache of pricey intercontinental ballistic missile parts stored at Hill Air Force Base were inaccurately invoiced as not working.

The recently released audit, which is the first agency-wide financial audit in the history of the Department of Defense, found that about $53 million worth of stockpiled missile motors were catalogued as inoperative.

“(A) redesigned process for validating the condition of assets in property systems resulted in the accurate capture of approximately $53 million in assets that would have otherwise been misstated,” the audit reads.

In an email sent to the Standard-Examiner Friday, Leah Bryant, chief of public affairs with the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, said the oversight could be attributed to training failures.

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