Trapped Air Force

Senator William Proxmire's "Golden Fleece of the Month" awards often go to the armed forces for such maneuvers as landscaping a Marine general's home, junketing Navy officers to a private reunion in Las Vegas, or providing free firewood for some Air Force officers. Proxmire had a perfect opportunity to award one of them to the Air Force last week, when he discovered it had allocated $18,799 in Government money for filling the sand traps in the golf course at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The Pentagon's retort: "We report shamefacedly that the military indeed provides some recreational facilities for its people." Proxmire, no foe of phys. ed., in turn said that he had no objection to the Air Force's maintaining golf courses "as long as it is accomplished with nonappropriated funds, and that means not with taxpayers' money." But isn't that par for the course?

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