The US Defense Department is giving 21 small, excess military facilities back to six European nations and will save about USD 60 million a year. The sites include housing, a golf course, a hotel and a skeet shooting range.
The moves do not involve a reduction in US forces in Europe. They mostly affect unneeded property in Germany and Italy, along with a handful of sites in the Britain, Belgium, Greece and Denmark.
The golf course, skeet range, General Abrams Hotel and a number of other facilities are at three US installations in Germany.
The Pentagon has been cutting the number US troops in Europe. Currently there are 67,000 US troops across Europe, including about 30,000 each for the Army and Air Force and about 7,000 Navy and Marine Corps forces.
