Nine more Air Force inns are shutting down, and there may be more, ahead as the service struggles to sustain its network of dozens of worldwide lodges without taxpayer funding. All the inns in the latest closure are in the U.S., the AF announced Nov. 3. They include Fort MacArthur Inn at Los Angeles AFB, Calif.; Wingo Inn at Arnold AFB, Tenn.; Hanscom Inn at Hanscom AFB, Mass.; Indian Hills Inn at Tinker AFB and Cherokee Lodge at Vance AFB in Oklahoma.; Warrior Inn at Grand Forks AFB, N.D.; Offutt Inns at Offutt AFB, Neb.; Homestead Inn, Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla.; and the Hospitality Inn at Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station, Pa. The Wingo Inn will no longer be run by AF Inns but will transfer 20 rooms to the base outdoor recreation department. The goal is to phase out reservations at the lodges by the end of November and close all those locations by spring, the AF said in a statement. In June, the AF announced it was shutting down the Air Force Inn at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., and the North Star Inn at Greenland’s Thule Air Base. The latest closures are necessary “to meet a Defense Department requirement that all lodging is self-sustaining without taxpayer funding,” the statement said. (Stars & Stripes 11/03/22)
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