Army has P132M worth of old ammo in storage, COA finds via Inquirer.Net The Philippine Army (PA) still has 137,264 rounds of decades-old high explosives valued at P131.77 million which are too old and unstable for use in the field by soldiers and are dangerous to keep, according to the Commission on Audit (COA). In its 2012 audit report on one of the three service branches of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the COA said that many pieces of the ammunition were released to field units in the 1980s but were turned over only recently to the command’s custody. Members of the audit team inspected 11 warehouses holding the cache of explosives from a distance and noted that many were contained in open boxes while others were just lying on the floor. “We were not able to validate the accuracy of the quantity of the reported unserviceable ammunition since we were advised by the PA personnel present that any wrong movement/dropping could trigger an explosion or cause an accident due to the abnormality of their condition,” the COA report said. More Here: newsinfo.inquirer.net/493681/army-has-p132m-worth-of-old-ammo-in-storage-coa-finds#ixzz2foVquYSL #ArmedForcesofthePhilippines #PhilippineArmy #PA #ammunition #ammo #COA #Philippines Like us on Facebook: https://facebook/PhilippineDefenseToday
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:36:40 +0000
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