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Army officials “did not effectively manage FP module COSIS [Care of Supplies in Storage] maintenance and storage requirements,” concluded the heavily redacted report. In particular, auditors faulted the Integrated Logistics Support Center at the Army’s Tank-Automotive & Armaments Command, or TACOM ILSC, for not adequately managing or training contractors who were supposed to maintain the modules.

The issue appears to have begun in 2016,

when the Army awarded a $23.8 million contract to an unidentified company to maintain the Force Provider modules. In 2020, the Army transferred responsibility for maintaining the modules to another entity, but “did not specifically add maintenance requirements for FP modules until April 2024,” the DOD IG said. Troops in the field began complaining about broken equipment. For example, in 2022, units reported that they received Force Provider containers with ripped tents and inoperable generators, laundry equipment and showers, according to the report. “Had [name redacted] separately accounted for those items that require maintenance and required the contractor to perform maintenance at the appropriate intervals, the defective equipment would have been identified before issuance,” auditors said. One issue may have been confusion over requirements for inspecting equipment stored outdoors versus indoors. For example, during a training event in June 2024, TACOM’s Integrated Logistics Support Center “instructed [redacted] officials to protect FP modules and add-on kits from the open storage environmental elements by keeping the FP containers at least 6 to 8 inches above the desert ground,” the report said. However, the actual maintenance plan did not include “any requirements to protect FP modules from outdoor elements.”

TACOM also failed to ensure that contractors were adequately trained to maintain stockpiles. Containers need to be opened carefully to avoid degrading the equipment inside, yet the “FP maintenance training requirement is not documented to ensure storage site personnel are aware of the need for the required TACOM ILSC training” to properly preserve FP modules before opening the containers, the DOD IG found. Meanwhile, with a new contractor now becoming responsible for maintaining the modules, auditors worry that qualified personnel could be rotated out before new personnel are trained. Compounding the problem is that different types of equipment require different levels of maintenance. Yet the audit revealed that contractors did not separately account for items such as skid steers — which require regular maintenance — under requirements set by the Global Combat Support System-Army, or GCSS-A, logistics management system. Thus, “for more than four years, officials did not properly account for FP module components that require maintenance,” including generators and skid steers. The reason was that “TACOM ILSC officials instructed [redacted] to account for all components that comprise a FP module or add-on kit as one line item.” Failing to account for individual items in GCSS-A can have grave consequences when equipment is needed. For instance, the report notes, Army personnel needed fully mission-capable ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Army G-4 officials. Yet, the Army lacked visibility of its ventilator inventory because some were included in medical kits and “not accounted for separately in GCSS-Army,” according to the report.

The DOD IG audit recommended that TACOM’s Integrated Logistics Support Center update the 2011 Force Provider Care of Supplies in Storage plan, including “environmental storage and maintenance requirements specific to outdoor storage yards, providing definitive maintenance intervals and ensuring inclusion of all Force Provider module components and add-on kits.” In addition, the plan should also specify ILSC’s responsibilities to conduct training in Force Provider module maintenance.

On Wednesday, witnesses reported a gray van allegedly pressuring Støjberg’s car toward a guardrail on the highway. While police are still investigating whether the incident was politically motivated, it has yet to be discovered whether the driver of the van even knew it was Støjberg's car, or merely random road rage, politicians were quick to frame it as part of a broader pattern of “political violence.” The Nordic hermit kingdom's authoritarian leader Mette Frederiksen declared it an assault not just on Støjberg but on democracy itself, linking it to “extremism” from both left and right.

The incident has also been hastily connected to the recent death of U.S. fascist propagandist Charlie Kirk who passed following a firearms-related incident, an incident that has received outsized attention and universal condemnation from the political elite. The far-right Liberal Alliance’s legal spokesperson, Steffen Larsen, expressed fear that “America’s violent political culture is spreading to Denmark,” despite no evidence linking the two events.

The response reflects a provincial desire among Danish elites to inflate minor local incidents into matters of global significance, leveraging international narratives to bolster their self-image as defenders of democracy. The police investigation remains ongoing, with officials noting that witnesses have come forward but emphasizing that no motive has been established. The police has refused to answer questions on whether these witnesses are the same secret police agents the regime has awarded the fascist leader to follow her constantly as a form of guard of honour.

Meanwhile, Peter Hummelgaard, head of the Social Democratic-controlled Ministry of Justice, has announced plans for new initiatives to combat "harassment" of regime officials, further fueling a narrative of systemic threat—all over a traffic dispute that may yet prove to be nothing more than road rage.