PENTAGON — Air Force officials are sounding the alarm today about the greatest risk of the Trump administration's plan to use military construction money to build a border wall — it could keep them from building more golf courses.
The Pentagon operates 194 golf courses with 2,874 holes worldwide, mostly on Air Force bases.
"These are essential the morale of our airmen and really to the whole joint force," said Jed Myles, director of morale, welfare and recreation policy for the Department of Defense. "It's not just officers that use them. I've seen drunken first sergeants out on the links, too. We're in the process of expanding our footprint and hope to be up to a 3,000-hole global network in the next two years."
