Pentagon Diverts $1 Billion from Army Barracks to Fund Border Mission

Paratroopers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division march in formation

The Pentagon is shifting $1 billion meant for maintaining and renovating Army barracks to instead fund its surge of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that coincides with the service’s gradual deprioritization of quality-of-life initiatives for soldiers. Redirecting the barracks funding erodes much of the additional money the Army started pouring into living quarters […]