Pentagon shifts $200 million from barracks, schools, facilities to border wall

The Pentagon is shifting $200 million in funds previously appropriated to Marine Corps barracks, military-run schools, a jet pilot training site, facilities in Guam and more to pay for 20 miles of a partial border wall at a service testing range on the border, according to official documents.

The repurposed funds would pay to replace a 12-foot-tall mesh barrier with a 30-foot-tall permanent protective barrier at the Barry M. Goldwater Range, a training site in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, according to a Pentagon letter sent to Senate appropriators on May 28.

The eastern part of the range is managed by the Air Force, and the western section, where the barriers would be built, is managed by Marine Corps Air Station Yuma and used for ground, live fire and non-live fire military training. The letter indicates that the roughly 20-mile-long barrier would extend between the International Boundary and Water Commission’s border monuments #192 to #197 which run along the Southwestern Arizona-Mexico border. The commission maintains and demarcates land and water boundaries between the U.S. and Mexico.

The Pentagon notified Congress that $200 million allotted to programs in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Department of Defense as far back as fiscal year 2021, would instead be rerouted to pay for the permanent barrier at the test range.

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