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Deputy Inspector General for Special Plans and Operations Ambassador Kenneth Moorefield testified before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Armed Services Committee on "Afghan National Security Forces and Security Lead Transition: The Assessment Process, Metrics and Efforts to Build Capability."

Moorefield discussed command and control processes and procedures in the development of the Afghan National Security Force. He detailed challenges in building a sustainable personnel system within the Afghan National Security Forces to include promotions and assignments, literacy rates and the career-long professional education and training. Moorefield also discussed the importance of a sustainable medical operation to the combat effectiveness. The National Military Hospital faces many challenges to include personnel shortages within the pharmacy and nursing departments, an insufficient level of security and accountability of controlled pharmaceutical substances and a lack of administrative process to track and transfer equipment.

Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies; retired Army Col. Joseph Felter, senior research scholar with the Center for International Security and Cooperation; and Charles M. Johnson, Jr., director of international affairs and trade, U.S. Government Accountability Office, testified on the panel with Moorefield.

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Deputy Inspector General for Auditing Daniel Blair testified today before the Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at a hearing titled "Dawood National Military Hospital, Afghanistan: What Happened and What Went Wrong?"

Blair discussed a report on improving pharmaceutical distribution in the Afghan National Army (ANA), issued by the Department of Defense Inspector General in May. He noted that while there has been some progress in the pharmaceutical distribution process, the ANA will be unable to develop reliable pharmaceutical requirements, and the pharmaceutical distribution process is at risk of mismanagement, theft and waste of U.S.-funded pharmaceuticals until ANA officials and the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan make additional improvements.

Retired Air Force Col. Schuyler K. Geller, Army Col. Mark F. Fassl, Army Col. Gerald N. Carozza Jr., and Coast Guard Capt. Steven Anderson also testified on the panel with Blair.

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Deputy Inspector General for Special Plans and Operations Ambassador Kenneth Moorefield testified today before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Armed Services Committee on “Accountability and Reform Efforts at the Afghan National Military Hospital.”

Moorefield discussed notable progress in the development of the Afghan National Security Force health care system. However, he also stressed that the building process is incomplete and that significant challenges remain. U.S. military and coalition efforts must address personnel shortages in pharmacy and nursing departments; a lack of administrative procedures to transfer equipment from clinical areas to areas in need; tighter security of controlled pharmaceutical substances; and a refined plan for the medical mentoring mission beyond 2013.

Moorefield concluded by stating that the Department of Defense Inspector General will continue to provide oversight of U.S. military and coalition efforts to support further improvements in the health care system.

David S. Sedney, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia, testified on the panel with Moorefield.

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