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| U.S. troops describe living in military barracks as 'continuous misery' |
| 2023-09-21 |
| [Center Square] Sewage backups and inoperable fire systems are among the safety hazards that U.S. service members living in barracks face, according to a new report on how such conditions undermine quality of life and military readiness. A U.S. Government Accountability Office report found that the Pentagon's assessments of conditions at barracks "are unreliable" and "observed barracks that pose potentially serious health and safety risks — such as broken windows and inoperable fire systems — and that do not meet minimum [U.S. Department of Defense] standards for privacy and configuration." "Thousands of service members live in barracks below standards," according to the report, which was published Tuesday. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Has it ever been otherwise? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2023-09-21 18:51 |
| #12 ^Will there be Iranian caviar? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-21 16:56 |
| #11 #1 Grom the Reflective: Translation: "I'll have to have a much bigger budget and a much bigger staff to churn out some PowerPoint presentations for presenting over lunch at some fancy-schmancy hotel." |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-09-21 16:53 |
| #10 Ae the residents able to quietly make repairs, so long as they source the materials themselves? Surely that would be preparation for life in the field as well. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-09-21 15:34 |
| #9 Austere living conditions. Preparation for the field. Motivational for those upwardly mobile. Offbase hooches with dirt floors, hot and cold running rats and charcoal stoves were preferred. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-21 14:17 |
| #8 Nothing is too good for the soldier, and that's generally what he gets. ~ Unk |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-09-21 10:52 |
| #7 "clogged showers, broken door locks, broken elevators, and apparent mold growth." But they've got unlimited money for Ukraine. With which Ukraine buys weapons, and that money goes into the pockets of the military industrial complex. Note their priorities. They don't include us. |
| Posted by: Otto Gurly-Brown9938 2023-09-21 10:03 |
| #6 How the troops live is not a large concern to the ranking officers in the military. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2023-09-21 09:40 |
| #5 Oh, the stories that I could tell about the barracks where I lived at Misawa AB, Japan. No AC, of course; a heating system that wouldn't be turned on in the fall, until there had been a difference between the high and low for thirty days in a row. The barracks where I lived wasn't too bad, aside from being overrun by cockroaches. The barracks building across the street was in such bad condition that a guy walked into the upstairs latrine, and the floor under him gave way and dropped him down into the ground floor latrine. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2023-09-21 08:57 |
| #4 #2:-) |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-21 08:56 |
| #3 Barracks are about on the bottom of all priorities. We were living with old WW2 temporary wood facilities well into the 80s. Still doing 'fire watch' at night in which those living in them had to do as you have very little time to evacuate before it would become an inferno. We had junior rank bachelor officer quarters that made Motel 6 look like a three star hotel. Hey, but we have billions for the Ukraine. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-09-21 08:30 |
| #2 סגנית עוזרת מזכירת ההגנה לשיכון, פטרישיה קורי אמרה בתגובה לדו"ח כי "תכניות פעולה מתקנות לכל המלצה יפותחו על ידי משרדי עם מידע מהמחלקות הצבאיות". |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-09-21 04:19 |
| #1 Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Housing Patricia Coury said in a response to the report that "Corrective Action Plans for each recommendation will be developed by my office with input from the Military Departments." Translation? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-09-21 01:11 |