{"id":1785553,"date":"2022-12-24T06:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T11:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785553"},"modified":"2022-12-24T07:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T12:33:43","slug":"afghan-refugees-leave-dod-with-270m-repair-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/afghan-refugees-leave-dod-with-270m-repair-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Refugees Leave DoD With $270M Repair Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafghan-refugees-leave-dod-with-270m-repair-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785553&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A $270 million repair bill has been left with the Defense Department after it hosted refugees\u00a0that landed on U.S. soil following President Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Broken tables, chairs, and cots used by guests alongside tents and cots ruined by spray paint, human biological matter, and holes, are just some of the repair requirements\u00a0the Defense Department listed in estimates\u00a0contained in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2022\/Dec\/21\/2003136137\/-1\/-1\/1\/DODIG-2023-040.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report released Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Afghans, airlifted out of Kabul in the final weeks before the U.S. left Afghanistan for good, spent weeks to months on one of 11 installations, where they received housing, medical care and resettlement assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoD Components dedicated significant resources and infrastructure to support the OAW mission,\u201d Lorin Venable, the assistant inspector general for audit financial management and reporting, said in an advisory attached to the report, UPI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2022\/12\/22\/defense-department-270-million-repair-bases-afghan-refugees\/6131671747199\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cHowever, DoD Components encountered challenges in obtaining funds to restore damaged facilities, equipment, and resupply consumables.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_22892798\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/12\/AP21273685908216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-22892798\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/AP21273685908216-1024x699-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"676\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>File\/U.S. Military Police pass Afghan refugees at the Village at the Ft. McCoy U.S. Army base on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Ft. McCoy, Wis. The fort is one of eight military installations across the country housing the tens of thousands of Afghans who fled their homeland in August after the U.S. withdrew its forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban took control. (Barbara Davidson\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The report comes after Biden in July 2021 announced Operation Allies Refuge to airlift and support the relocation of Afghan evacuees and their families who previously helped the U.S. Government as the White House initiated the rushed plan to pull troops out of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Allies Welcome followed in August 2021 to resettle Afghans in the United States who had worked with U.S. and coalition forces since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Both operations utilized military personnel, equipment and supplies \u2014 as well as facilities in which more than 80,000 refugees were housed temporarily \u2014 as America\u2019s longest war came to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The FBI reportedly launched a probe into an alleged attack of a female soldier at the hands of several male Afghan evacuees housed at Fort Bliss, officials from the agency and the U.S. Army post confirmed Friday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F1LE7U30hT\">https:\/\/t.co\/F1LE7U30hT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1441948613475815425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">In March 2022, the Defense Department initially estimated the cost to \u201creset facilities, equipment, and consumables to pre-OAW conditions\u201d were $326.6 million though those figures were later reduced by May, the UPI report sets out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The auditors identified costs not allowable under rules for reimbursement including $25 million requested by Ramstein Air Base in Germany for damage to the airfield. However, $2.2 million was approved for equipment and consumable items for Ramstein Air Base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAir Force officials described tables, chairs, and cots broken by guests and tents and cots ruined by spray paint, human biological matter, and holes,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17737322\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1234899317-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17737322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1234899317-1.jpg\" alt=\"Afghan refugees arrive at Dulles International Airport on August 27, 2021 in Dulles, Virginia, after being evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. - The Pentagon said on Friday the ongoing evacuation from Afghanistan faces more threats of attack a day after a suicide bomber and possible associated gunmen killed scores at a Kabul airport gate. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY \/ AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Afghan refugees arrive at Dulles International Airport on August 27, 2021 in Dulles, Virginia, after being evacuated from Kabul after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. (Olivier Douliery\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Air Force initially requested $150 million in repairs, reporting that at Joint Base McGuide-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, \u201cguests damaged facility water systems by forcing large items into pipes, causing clogs,\u201d the report found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAir Force officials stated these clogged water systems were so excessive that the facility managers could not repair the clogs with conventional plumbing tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Elsewhere the costs to repair Fort McCoy, estimated at $145.6 million, represented more than 56.1 percent of all restoration costs at the 11 sites that housed refugees.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fort McCoy housed 12,706 Afghan refugees, or 17.2 percent of the total amount of Afghan refugees housed on military bases amid the operations.<\/p>\n<p>That facility reported all of the barracks, which were built during World War II, needed repairs or replacement of walls, ceilings, floors, doors, bathrooms, plumbing, electrical systems, heating, ventilation, air conditioning systems and exterior siding.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Around 95,000 Afghan refugees could be settled around the U.S., including in Ohio, following President Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aezb00rmsI\">https:\/\/t.co\/aezb00rmsI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1436896050611118089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDue to the high costs of the Fort McCoy estimate, we have concerns over whether the reported damages to the barracks and other structures at Fort McCoy were a result of the OAW mission or were pre-existing to OAW,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy sought $3.3 million to restore facilities in Spain, but the auditors approved just $810,000.<\/p>\n<p>The report also requests the Pentagon\u2019s comptroller come up with a plan to cover the remaining needed repairs at the 11 military bases not eligible for reimbursement through humanitarian disaster funding.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $270 million repair bill has been left with the Defense Department after it hosted refugees\u00a0that landed on U.S. soil following President Joe Biden\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. 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