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[Pete]

Originally Posted by Mosby Raider

Pete, I know you remember when we had to move out of the barracks on Smoke Bomb Hill and into the WWII era barracks in the old COSCOM area in 1977. Those old squad bay barracks were in terrible condition.

Ah, our time period of Musical Barracks. One floor per company in the wooden ones. In about 5 years we lived in 4 barracks. The original one by the big parking lot first and last with a short stay in the one across from the JFK Chapel and the COSCOM area in between.

I've looked through my old pictures before and only found one picture of the wood barracks we stayed in. It was a picture of Rodney D with the barracks in the background. I'd say the wood barracks was easier to keep clean and maintain - not that we spent much time in any of them.

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by Mosby Raider

Pete, I know you remember when we had to move out of the barracks on Smoke Bomb Hill and into the WWII era barracks in the old COSCOM area in 1977. Those old squad bay barracks were in terrible condition.

I started my SF career in those wooden barracks on Smoke Bomb Hill, it was 1983 and if I recall correctly we spent a few a few more years in them...A-1-5.

[Pete]

The COSCOM area barracks we, the barracks rats, stayed in during the 77/78 time period were one "big block" north of the Training Group area of the late 80s early 90s.

5th Gp and 7th Gp each had a couple of rows. We, as 3/5th, had the last row and right behind us was an MP Company. They would line up their jeeps on the street between our buildings. The was a little bit of friction between the two groups of barracks rats.

DUIs? They knew who drove which car and could just hide near the entrance to the parking lot. Turn in and they would hit the Blue Light. We used DDs before DDs were cool.

Sullivan, a commo guy, Mr Survival, had a Black Dodge Van and he didn't drink. A little money for gas and buy him all the Coke he could drink and he was happy to drive all of us downtown for the evening. He got stopped a few times and it was a riot listening to the interplay between him and the MPs.

[brewmonkey]

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.

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!

[BMT (RIP)]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/...e/bad_barracks

BMT

[BMT (RIP)]

Guess the bitch can't remember what Slick did for 8 years.

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=292719

BMT

[SF_BHT]

She will say anything right now to get a sound bite.

Just what we need is another Hearing. Wonder how much that will cost?

[Pete]

About the only question they could ask in a hearing is "Why are you not building faster?"

They are planning on tearing down and replacing all the old barracks. This is underway. According to the outgoing 37th Eng Brigade CSM even the stuff put up in the early 80s on Smoke Bomb Hill is scheduled to be replaced - after the older stuff.

The new barracks are more like condos than "Barracks" like us old farts think of them.

[Guy]

Originally Posted by BMT

Guess the bitch can't remember what Slick did for 8 years.

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=292719

BMT

Leave her alone...I need her too beat Obama.

Stay safe.

[Pete]

Another update.

http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=292811

[Ret10Echo]

Great, more "studies" and "hearings"...that will cost more than the repairs themselves.