The U.S. military’s effort to establish a pier in the Mediterranean Sea to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza failed to meet “service-level standards for equipment and unit readiness,” according to the department’s inspector general’s office.

In March 2024, then-President Joe Biden ordered the creation of the pier, which was intended to provide a maritime theater to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza without putting U.S. troops in the besieged enclave or at risk. But it was hampered by a series of hiccups, including bad weather and poor logistics.