The army of the United States will continue to build installations for the newly emerging Afghan National Army (ANA), commander of the US Army Corps of Engineering in Afghanistan said Monday.

"Our primary focus has been the Central Corps here in Kabul. Weused US military bases as the blueprint when designing the ANA installations and to date we have completed three facilities to house 15,000 soldiers," John O' Dowd told reporters.

To implement the projects, the US army awarded 500 million US dollars worth of work in 2004 to many companies that employ and train local Afghan workers, he added.

"Our Corps in conjunction with the office of Military Cooperation Afghanistan has overseen the construction of more than302 major structures including 186 barrack buildings, 22 administrative buildings, four dinning facilities and 89 support facilities," said the commander.

He, however, did not disclose how much fund would be allocated in the coming year of 2005 for rebuilding the Afghan army.

"We are also building a military entrance processing center and a soldier's hospital besides installing independent power plants and waste water treatment stations at each installation to ensure there will be power and running water," noted the ranking officer.

The US military since its deployment in the post-Taliban Afghanistan nearly three years ago, began rebuilding Afghan army with an idea to form a brand new 70,000 force within three years, of these around 20,000 have already been put on the payroll.

Source: Xinhua