Army-wide barracks inspection ordered

[unhappycamper]

This picture, taken by the father of an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper on April 14, is said to show a dilapidated shower at a Fort Bragg barracks.


Army-wide barracks inspection ordered
By Matthew Cox - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Apr 30, 2008 5:59:55 EDT

The Army’s senior leadership recently ordered a service-wide barracks inspection to make sure its billets are in better shape than the dilapidated quarters 82nd Airborne Division soldiers just came home to from Afghanistan, Army installation heads said today.

The impromptu walk-through carried out by all major commands occurred this past weekend in response to a video posted recently on YouTube that shows peeling paint, mold and a bathroom drain plugged with what appears to be sewage in the barracks that paratroopers from the Fort Bragg, N.C., unit were housed in after returning from a 15-month combat deployment.

“Folks, we let our soldiers down; that is not like us,” Brig. Gen. Dennis Rogers, the deputy director of Operations & Facilities of Army Installation Command, told reporters. “There is no good excuse for what happened.”

While the walk-through is not yet complete, Rogers said that garrison commanders have reported so far that “soldiers are being housed to the Army’s standard,” but stopped short of describing the poor barracks conditions some soldiers are living in at Fort Bragg as an isolated incident.

“I would hope that it is an isolated condition, and we will figure that out,” Rogers said. “If there are issues; we’ll fix them. That’s what we are going to do, we are going to fix them,” Rogers said. “We are still going through the data, and we will know by the end of the week.”


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/army_barracks_roundtable_042908w/

[glowing]

1. Yeah, right.. isolated my ass. Base housing has sucked for a while.. some

bases much worse than others... They're just sorry that they were caught.

[rakeeb]

3. mold, peeling paint, leaky pipes, dripping sewage.....

Sounds like every building I lived or worked in for 15 years in the Army (except, oddly enough, one year in Panama)...
After a walk-through of our buildings at Ft Campbell in 1999, (which included a general and a Senator), they said with all the sincerity they could muster that the peeling paint, mold, leaking water pipes and sewage dripping into buckets in first flooor offices were "not the standard"....but we were "slated to move into new buildings by 2008, so things are looking up!"

[w8liftinglady]

4. I remember the decrepid condition of the Barracks at Ft Meade...in the 70's!

I bet they still use those barrack..coal heat and all...

[soothsayer]

2. They've assigned three soldiers to inspect all the bases worldwide.