How culpable was Kimmel with inadequate resources?

How culpable could Kimmel be when Pearl Harbor lacked the equipment and supplies he had requested?

He is considered essentially not culpable for those shortages, especially the aircraft gap that limited proper search coverage to about sixty degrees.

Kimmel had complained from the start about Pearl Harbor's equipment and supply shortages. He is assigned no responsibility for resources that were never supplied. The clearest example is patrol aviation: Kimmel had enough aircraft to cover only about sixty degrees properly. Holding him responsible for an all-around search would require treating unavailable aircraft and crews as if they already existed.