Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense
The Center Square: U.S. troops describe living in military barracks as ‘continuous misery’
Sewage backups and inoperable fire systems are among the safety hazards that U.S. service members living in barracks face, according to a new report on how such conditions undermine quality of life and military readiness.
A U.S. Government Accountability Office report found that the Pentagon’s assessments of conditions at barracks “are unreliable” and “observed barracks that pose potentially serious health and safety risks – such as broken windows and inoperable fire systems – and that do not meet minimum [U.S. Department of Defense] standards for privacy and configuration.”
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WNU Editor: And the Pentagon wonders why they have a recruitment problem.