An already expensive war in Afghanistan will cost American taxpayers between $5 billion and $10 billion just to pull a decade’s worth of weapons, vehicles and supplies out of the country, The Washington Examiner has learned.

The Pentagon has shipped more than $57 billion worth of equipment to Afghanistan, including 53,000 vehicles and nearly 100,000 giant cargo containers filled with all the materiel necessary to wage war in a remote country with limited infrastructure. Now, with U.S. involvement in the war slated to end by 2014, the massive job of pulling as much salvageable gear as possible back home has begun.