{"id":47777,"date":"2024-08-20T17:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T17:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/08\/20\/pentagon-watchdog-to-review-jlots-system-used-for-gaza-aid-pier\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:33:49","slug":"pentagon-watchdog-to-review-jlots-system-used-for-gaza-aid-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2024\/08\/20\/pentagon-watchdog-to-review-jlots-system-used-for-gaza-aid-pier\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon watchdog to review JLOTS system used for Gaza aid pier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just weeks after the U.S. military dismantled its aid pier off the Gaza Strip, ending its mission there, the Pentagon\u2019s internal watchdog has launched an investigation into the capability used to build the pier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a memo this month, the Defense Department\u2019s Office of the Inspector General announced plans<\/a> to assess how the military uses and fields joint logistics over-the-shore, or JLOTS<\/a>, a system in which soldiers and sailors build a pier off the shore with sections they can reconfigure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Troops then prepare a landing zone and \u201cstab\u201d the beach with the pier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IG\u2019s probe will complement another review of the Defense Department\u2019s overall work to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza via the pier, which began operating in May, but which was only active for about 20 days before ending its work in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before President Joe Biden announced the mission in his March State of the Union address, JLOTS was a little-known area of military engineering.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t