{"id":1789367,"date":"2022-12-29T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789367"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T13:03:27","slug":"u-s-military-bases-that-took-in-afghan-evacuees-suffered-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-damage-pentagon-ig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-military-bases-that-took-in-afghan-evacuees-suffered-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-damage-pentagon-ig\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.\u00a0Military Bases That Took In Afghan Evacuees Suffered Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Damage: Pentagon IG"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fu-s-military-bases-that-took-in-afghan-evacuees-suffered-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-damage-pentagon-ig%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=1789367&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-->\n<p>A newly released Pentagon report has concluded that U.S. military bases used to house Afghan nationals that were evacuated from Afghanistan amid President Joe Biden\u2019s pullout from the country have sustained hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage.<\/p>\n<p>This report is available after approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/25\/numbers-behind-afghan-evacuation-come-into-focus\/\">76,000<\/a> Afghan nationals were evacuated in a few days to staging areas in Qatar, Spain, Italy and Bahrain in August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The evacuees were then sent to temporary housing facilities at eight DoD installations \u2014 Fort Bliss, Texas; Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL), New Jersey; Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Fort Pickett, Virginia; Fort Lee, Virginia; Marine Corps Base (MCB) Quantico, Virginia; and Holloman Air Force Base (AFB), New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Defense Inspector general <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2022\/Dec\/21\/2003136137\/-1\/-1\/1\/DODIG-2023-040.PDF\">said<\/a> 11 installations submitted estimates for equipment and consumables reset to pre-Operation Allies Welcome Conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The costs were broken down into two categories: Facilities and Equipment\/Consumables.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report there was $257.48 Million in damage to facilities.<\/p>\n<p>DoD restoration experts determined that $238.04 Million in damages could be covered by Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid funds.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that the remainder in damages to facilities and damages to equipment\/consumables \u2014 more than $100 million \u2014 would need to paid for through the operation and maintenance or military construction appropriations allocated to each involved DoD Component.<\/p>\n<p>Air Force officials stated, for example, that the damage done to Afghan nationals could not be repaired as described by officials \u201ctables, chairs, and cots broken by guests and tents and cots ruined by spray paint, human biological matter, and holes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The high costs to U.S. taxpayers resulted in damaging the U.S. military\u2019s preparedness for military operations, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoD installations reported that facilities and equipment were overused, damaged, and remained in various degrees of disrepair, resulting in a costly maintenance effort,\u201d The inspector general was satisfied. \u201cDoD installations need to restore their facilities and equipment to a condition that enables them to conduct trainings, prepare for future events, and return to normal base operations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly released Pentagon report has concluded that U.S. military bases used to house Afghan nationals that were evacuated from Afghanistan amid President Joe Biden\u2019s pullout from the country have sustained hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage. 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