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Originally Posted by 11Ber
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.
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I just watched that video on another site and am appalled at the state of affairs for our soldiers, especially after returning from a 15 month deployment. I realize a grungy barracks with overflowing toilets is probably better the being shot at on a daily basis, but because of what those soldiers have been doing they deserve so much better.
Worse is that new barracks are under construction but most will not be done until most of those soldiers in those run down hovels have long since ETS'd or PCS'd. They need to get the ball rolling and bring in more construction crews!
Back in 89 at Irwin they built 6 new sets of barracks for the Infantry and Armor battalion on post as we were living in pre-Korean war era buildings that were falling apart and had 4-5 men per room that had been designed for 2. Instead though they decided to give the new barracks to the FSB so they could have 1 man rooms, even though all their barracks were 20 or more years newer then ours at the time. Thankfully they worked out a compromise and we got to move into the new place. Of course they did not realize that they moved an Infantry company into the same building that housed the MI Company, females and all. LOL!