<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&#8217;s pullout from the country have sustained hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage.</p>
<p>The report comes 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 over a period of several days back in August 2021 to staging bases in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, Italy, Bahrain, and Germany.</p>
<p>The evacuees were then sent to temporary housing facilities at eight DoD installations — 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>
<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> that 11 of the installations submitted estimates to reset facilities, equipment, and consumables to pre-Operation Allies Welcome conditions.</p>
<p>The costs were broken down into two categories: Facilities and Equipment/Consumables.</p>
<p>The report said that there was an estimated $257.48 million in damage to the facilities, including $174.9 million for Army bases, $3.21 million for Navy bases, $63 million for Air Force bases, and $16.37 million for Marine Corps bases.</p>
<p>A group of DoD restoration reviewers said that $238.04 million in damages were eligible to be paid for through Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid (OHDACA) funds.</p>
<p>The report said that the remainder in damages to facilities and damages to equipment/consumables — more than $100 million — would need to paid for through the operation and maintenance or military construction appropriations allocated to each involved DoD Component.</p>
<p>For example, Air Force officials said that the damage caused by the Afghan nationals was unrepairable as officials described &#8220;tables, chairs, and cots broken by guests and tents and cots ruined by spray paint, human biological matter, and holes.&#8221;</p>
<p>The high costs to U.S. taxpayers resulted in damaging the U.S. military&#8217;s preparedness for military operations, the report said.</p>
<p>&#8220;DoD installations reported that facilities and equipment were overused, damaged, and remained in various degrees of disrepair, resulting in a costly maintenance effort,&#8221; the inspector general found. &#8220;DoD 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.&#8221;</p>

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