DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

Quantity and Cost of Ten Largest Categories of Military Real Property

in the United States

2/ Excludes liquid fuel, ammunition, and cold storage.

Dwellings only (excludes trailers and detached facilities).

3/ Includes operating plants and distribution lines.

4 Piers and wharves; excludes seawalls, bulkheads and other waterfront facilities. 5 Feet of berthing.

Air Force annual rentals paid for property used throughout the world on the basis of leases in effect on 30 June 1968 amounted to $15.8 million as compared with $13.9 million for the preceding year end. Of the $15.8 million, 58 percent was for properties in foreign countries and 42 percent for properties in the United States. Of the $1.9 million increase during FY 1968 in rentals paid by the Air Force $1 million was in foreign countries and $0.9 million in the United

States.

Returns to the Air Force on the basis of leases in effect on

30 June 1968 for Air Force properties used by others amounted to $1.44 million. This was a 14 percent increase over the $1.26 million reported

for the previous year.

Land controlled by the Air Force throughout the world totaled 10.85 million acres on 30 June 1968, a decrease of 37 thousand acres from the 10.89 million acres reported a year earlier.

Decreases of

38 thousand acres in the United States and 18 thousand in foreign

countries were partly offset by an increase of 19 thousand acres for the United States possessions. The 1968 world-wide amount is

the lowest reported during the past 15 years and is 8.30 million acres less than the 19.15 million acres reported by the Air Force on

30 June 1957.

The data in Table 26 show that military real property controlled by the Air Force within the United States represented a cost to the Government of $13.5 billion. Of the total world-wide Air Force investment, 83 percent represented installations within the United States, 2 percent in U. S. possessions and 15 percent in foreign

countries.

Table 26 Cost and Rentals of Military Real Property Controlled in
by Status and Type of Installation
as of 30 June 1968

the United States