The agency's executive director was found to have used her position to get one of her partners promoted. A Defense Department IG report recommends the civilian employee be reinstated with backpay. Officials have no plans to try and recoup the money, noting that no laws appear to have been violated by the doubled stipend payments. A Pentagon watchdog found "severe and systemic" problems with the unit’s internal controls on medication, among other issues. In one instance, funds were spent to investigate a sinkhole, according to a recent Defense Department Inspector General report. A Pentagon Inspector General report found that the Defense Department has not complied with enhanced tracking requirements for $1 billion in Ukraine aid. The Pentagon’s internal watchdog says he will review the secrecy surrounding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization. By Tara Copp, AP
4 months ago A lack of timely access to military health care plagues each of the services, according to a new Pentagon inspector general report. An inspector general report said frequent procedural mistakes are adding months to elderly veterans' wait for military records. The accuracy rate of the data was supposed to be at least 90 percent, but the IG found errors in 24 of the 25 registry records they reviewed. Load More