Jay9928 (August 5, 2008 at 12:29 am)

I know how it is... I was in 1/5 Cav 95-96

shortmunkybeast (July 10, 2008 at 2:02 am)

so we have no ac and its fort hood tx. its freaking hot.

stewartx5 (June 30, 2008 at 10:09 pm)

Soldiers in the past, with no more home repair skills than soldiers today, once routinely did those tasks (during wartime and peacetime). Therefore, I see absolutely no reason why soldiers today cannot do the same.

stewartx5 (June 30, 2008 at 10:08 pm)

I didn't see "major problems," jumpcherry. Looking at the video, I see a stairs needing paint, walls needing scrapped & painted, a missing water fountain, a broken toilet seat, stopped up drains, a dirty shower, bathroom mold, and so on.In other words, nothing the average homeowner couldn't or wouldn't fix themselves. Even the missing water fountain requires no more skills than replacing a broken washing machine (a water hookup, a drain hose, and plugging it in).

jumpcherry (June 30, 2008 at 9:39 pm)

I had to reply to this one. A hero is who you call a hero. Why take that away from anyone. If you called your father or your mother a hero I would not rebuke you, even though all they probably did was to work 2 meaningless jobs to put food on your table, that is fine with me. Volunteering during a time of war knowing that you are going to spend countless days and nights away from everything you have ever loved an known, perhaps never coming back is not easy. There are easier ways to live...

jumpcherry (June 30, 2008 at 9:32 pm)

Take a stroll down ardennes st and you can see how much construction is going on. With all of that construction and millions of dollars being used by hundreds of contractors you would think that they could send over a couple guys to actually fix these major problems. These barracks have been shitholes from the time we moved in 4 years ago and I am sure that they were not much prettier before that. It is a blatant mismanagment of resources and an oversight that will finally be fixed.

jumpcherry (June 30, 2008 at 9:24 pm)

While I was a medic living in those exact same barracks before and after our deployment to Iraq in 2004, I never once went to pipefitting school nor was certified in black mold inspection or removal. I never apprenticed as a plumber or a carpenter. You can clearly see how we remedied the open gas pipes, stuffing rags in them. I am sure if OSHA or the EPA were to happen upon a civilian job site like this it would be shut down and fined for the numerous environmental and safety violations.

stewartx5 (June 25, 2008 at 7:26 pm)

And perhaps you failed to notice, jumpcherry, the Army was already building these soldiers brand new barracks, not yet ready when these soldiers rotated back from Afghanistan ahead of schedule. In the meantime, these soldiers, as said several times, could have performed the maintenance necessary to make these barracks liveable for the few short months they'll be there. These several hundred persons, working together, could have accomplished that task in only a few days.

jumpcherry (June 25, 2008 at 3:04 pm)

Perhaps you failed to notice that the soldiers that came home to these barracks were in afghanistan for the last 15 months before coming home to this filth. Should they rotate infantry soldiers home during deployment to upkeep the barracks? Or perhaps we should let the fighters fight and come home as the heroes they are to decent living quarters? Just a thought

t43p54 (June 6, 2008 at 7:02 am)

ltfightthank you and your buddys for your service to this country.