Welcome Home Soldier
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46vYZFU1Dew

Video bad enough to GAG a MAGGOT on a GUT WAGON!!!

BMT

That is just Criminal. I I was the 1SG they would have the tents set up and refuse to have my company in it..

I don't know
 

I don't know the rest of the story as to "why" in that case.

But I do know that section of Gruber Road is under reconstruction. The contractors started up by Longsteet and are working their way through the old Division Block by Block headed to the Smoke Bomb Hill area and the old red brick barracks over there.

The buildings are stripped down and then all the hazardous stuff and recyclables are removed and then the building torn down, site prep and the new one put up.

Tents? Yeap, then cleaned up the troops and then sent them off on leave until the stiuation was resolved.

Clean up, inventory and Leave. Best thing for all involved.

If you think the video is bad you should see it in person.

When a certain NGSF company Mob'd last September the MUIC tried to house us in these same barracks (there was actually an army Reserve Tranpo Co and a NG engineer Co being housed in the adjacent barracks bldg.) Everyone in my company decided to stay out on the economy on their own dime of course.

I understand construction sometimes gets delayed for one reason or another and as such projects arent always get completed on time. This however is no excuse for what is being allowed.

Sad, truly sad.

Crip

Someone needs to take a "close" look at the general contractors.

Since the housing market took a dive, alot of residential construction contractors are jumping into the commercial "construction" market!:mad:

Stay safe.

Where are they going to live when their leave is over?

BMT

Musical Barracks
 

Somebody who just deployed?

Where are they going to put the 2d Bdge when they return from Iraq??

BMT

What about all the NG and AR folks?

Stay safe.

Saturday AM
 

I'll go for a drive down Gruber and Ardennes and give an update on the overall progress.

I'll take a couple of pictures. Anybody who spent time in Division will remember where the theater, chapel, shopette, museum and pool were.

I'll see if I can downsize them off the giiganto size I use for work and post them here.

See my post above Guy.

When 3/20th Mob'd for Iraq, they stayed in the old Division area. It is not any better.

Crip

Backyard ARFAB
 

Hey Crip;

When you get back you can put an ARFAB up in my back yard. Might have to fight Millie, the Golden Retriever, for the cot:D.

Pete

That is just f-ing sad. Not to start a pissing contest, but I guarantee that the support batts that spent deployment in BAF, Salerno, etc are in nice, new, shiny barracks. They always stick it to the grunt cause come on, he is just going to mess something nice up. Same thing happened to my old unit at Ft Drum. Now it was nowhere near as deplorable as this. However, after 16 months on a company FOB and being promised new barracks by BC and Brigade Command, we arrived to the same style old barracks we left from, just smaller. This is so ate up and no one outside of the community cares.

The Rest of the story
 

The story was just on WRAL. 'Ol Gilbert as doing the story. They just got back.

The rest of the story is they got back a month early - the contractors who were to finish the repairs (so they could tear them down? WTF) didn't get a chance to finish. They had like 72 hours notice the troops were moving in.

At the end of the clip the camera pans to the other side of the street and shows one of the brand new buildings.

http://www.wral.com/news/