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The Pentagon did not provide an estimate of the total worth of its golf courses, but The Intercept found, using recent Pentagon property data, that the costs to replace just the facilities (buildings and other structures) on five golf courses — two in Germany and one each in Japan, Korea, and Massachusetts — total more than $200 million. Add in the structures on another 140 military golf courses and factor in the cost of the land, and the value must be astronomical.

“You don’t need to be a military strategist to understand that Pentagon-operated golf courses are not essential to national security. The Pentagon should be looking at all of its infrastructure and proposing reductions to address excess capacity, which it has said rests at about 19 percent,” Murphy told The Intercept by email. “A new Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process could save taxpayers billions of dollars per year by shedding excess infrastructure, and closing the Pentagon’s golf courses should be part of that process.”