armytimes.com — 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.
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elwood19k20Apr 30, 2008
In this picture, the walls look good and so does the tile, just the paint is badly needed to be stripped and repainted. The barracks are the responsibility of the soldiers. If they are in that poor of shape then it is the soldiers faults as well as thier first line supervisors for not inspecting on a regular basis. I was deployed multiple times and the paint sure didnt peel off the walls while I was away on my tours. I painted my own walls, unclogged my own sinks and submitted work orders for anything major like broken wall lockers, damaged furniture, etc. In Macedonia I lived in a condemned building that was in worse shape than this and we fixed them up nice and made them liveable. If this article is correct and the barracks look this bad, it is at least partially the soldiers fault if not fully. I would have gotten an article 15 for allowing my barracks to become this uncared for. My first line supervisor would have recieved the same punishment for not doing his duty to regularly inspect my quarters. This just doesnt make any sense. Something has to be missing from this article.