Posted on Mar 27, 2019
US Air Force: We Need $5 Billion To Fix Weather-Damaged Bases
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Even $2.5 billion per base seems high - unfortunately the article did not mention the type and extent of the damage to either, so hard to tell if it is straight repairs or is the Air Force slipping in some normal maintenance.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
I know there wasn't any building on base at Tyndall that had not been impacted. We housed a lot of families who had no housing here at MacDill for many months, so what's the cost of totally rebuilding a base? Your guess is as good as mine. I'd guess costs at Offutt are significantly less, flood damage repair is a pretty straight forward thing but if components of high tech systems got flooded that price tag can escalate real fast.
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They could use these already approved funds that are unobligated.
“If the president opts to declare a national emergency, he likely would use 10 U.S.C. Sec. 2808, which gives the defense secretary the authority to undertake construction projects “not otherwise authorized by law” to support any troops deployed in a national emergency requiring the use of the armed forces. The statute would allow DOD to repurpose unobligated funds allocated for milcon or family housing projects. The department has about $10 billion left in unobligated funds for construction in the fiscal 2019 budget, in addition to about $13 billion that has rolled over from previous years, a congressional aide told the Washington Post. Defense officials would need to divert funds for the border wall from the milcon projects to which they were originally allocated.”
“If the president opts to declare a national emergency, he likely would use 10 U.S.C. Sec. 2808, which gives the defense secretary the authority to undertake construction projects “not otherwise authorized by law” to support any troops deployed in a national emergency requiring the use of the armed forces. The statute would allow DOD to repurpose unobligated funds allocated for milcon or family housing projects. The department has about $10 billion left in unobligated funds for construction in the fiscal 2019 budget, in addition to about $13 billion that has rolled over from previous years, a congressional aide told the Washington Post. Defense officials would need to divert funds for the border wall from the milcon projects to which they were originally allocated.”
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