The total damage to the Marine Corps installations was estimated at $3.5 billion. The Corps had been self-funding the recovery efforts.
U.S. service members and their families living in and working among shattered buildings on military installations left damaged by Hurricanes Florence and Michael will receive financial aid to support recovery efforts, Marine Commandant General Robert Neller announced Friday.
The news comes some two months after Neller wrote letters to Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan and Navy Secretary Richard Spencer in February and March of this year. The memos requested funds for the current fiscal year to supplement repairs of damaged property left in the wake of 2018 hurricanes that inflicted damage across three Marine Corps bases in North Carolina and one in Albany, Georgia.
The financial hardships left the Marine Commandant with the hard choice to cancel or significantly drawback planned military training exercises at the expense of combat readiness. The total damage to the Marine Corps installations was estimated at $3.5 billion, with $1.3 billion needed for building repairs and $1.7 billion required for building replacements. The other $500 million would be allocated to operations and maintenance costs and the replacement of information infrastructure and end items. An additional $47 million would go to Marine Corps Base Albany.
Above Threshold Reprogramming requests and funds, known as ATRs, is an internal Defense Department practice overseen by Congress and infused within the Pentagon’s Appropriations Act. The policy allows for shifting available budget funds from one military account to another within the Defense Department.
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