DOD officials identify error in shipment to Taiwan

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Error? I'll say.... read this one.

The Department of Defense announced today that four non-nuclear ballistic missile nose-cone ***embly components were mistakenly shipped to Taiwan in August 2006.

Taiwanese authorities notified the U.S. they had received four nose-cones instead of the four helicopter batteries they initially ordered through the Foreign Military Sales program in August 2006.

The items were originally shipped in March 2005 from F.E. Warren Air Force Base (Wyo.), to the Defense Logistics Agency warehouse at Hill AFB, Utah, said Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne in a press conference held March 25 at the Pentagon in conjunction with Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ryan Henry and Army Lt. Gen. Carter S. Ham, Joint Staff.

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