Yeah, this is exactly why this is so surprising to me. The US Military is, by the standards of NATO forces, not generally considered especially competent. Sorry, just the way it is. The general opinion of American training and professionalism is very low. But the one thing everyone agrees they absolutely rock is logistics. As a machine for delivering materiel to warzones the US Military has always been terrifyingly competent. That’s kind of the secret sauce that solves all the other problems; you don’t need to be well trained when you can afford to be inefficient.

When the US Military can’t do logistics right, a lot of things have gone very, very wrong.