No. British. And as ever it's the ones hiding behind the lines who are the most hopeless. The fella we used to deal with had to wait four months to get a new battery for his mobile phone from the ministry of defence.
The military is the most f'd up andclosed system on the planet. The incentive structure is skewed toward incompetence. You're rewarded for shutting up and not causing a fuss. And since there is no consequences in normal times, it's never any reason to challenge this system. Whenever there's a major scandal everything about it is kept under lid.
We recently had an accident in Norway where the tower that was used to watch over a fighter pilot exercise, a tower with 4 officers in it, was gunned down by an F16. This was odd, because the same tower had been gunned down 10 years ago and nothing had been done to address the issue. So journalists then asked what the massive accident report from 10 years ago concluded, but this was of course confidential. Fortunately nobody was killed in either incident, but it's sad that someone 10-15 years from now will have to die before they address the issue.