Evacuee Transportation Backhaul. Incremental costs related to the movement of personnel (American citizens and other third country nationals) from identified point(s) of evacuation to designated turnover point(s). For DOD, this represents costs incurred when an asset that is owned or leased by DOD is in use for the designated purpose of moving evacuees from the point of departure to the time until the evacuees am returned to the control of Department of State or some other designated entity. Examples of such costs are: flying hours from designated departure zone(s) to designated safe haven(s) whether fixed or rotary wing aircraft (to include round trip return); steaming days (overseas movement) from designated port/area of operation to designated safehaven; over land conveyance of evacuees (trucks, buses, trains, etc.). In cases where TRANSCOM assets/leasing are used, all costs incurred charged are incremental as this activity operates as a business fund and receives its nonsubsidy revenue through customers. In cases where non-TRANSCOM assets am used incremental costs may be more difficult to identify. For ship steaming costs, international costs will be assessed against evacuation criteria as the ship(s) are also likely involved in protection activities which will be borne by DOD. For flying hours that originate from shipboard and return (when for evacuation purposes only), will be considered incremental as these tasks are mission related and a training environment does not exist nor is training being performed. There are instances where U.S. forces may be transporting into the theater supplies, equipment, personnel, subsistence items, etc. which are necessary to support the protection portion of the evacuation. Often, the transporting asset is returning empty/less than full to its place of origin having delivered its cargo. When this occurs, that asset may also be able to evacuate personnel. Because the cost of that asset returning to its place of origin is allocable to the protection portion of an evacuation, the incremental costs of transporting evacuees are usually negligible (this is commonly referred to as evacuation on a "space available" basis). Generally, DOS will request this support on a reimbursable basis under the Economy Act. This is commonly referred to as “reimbursable, no cost" due to the cost of the flight being covered for other primary purposes and there happens to be space available on that asset to evacuate personnel. When available, use of protection intended asset...
