Military Housing Woes Continue
Five Sided Wind Tunnel
Lawmakers demand answers from Army over squalid barracks conditions, scant progress since damning report
Lawmakers are concerned with a lack of progress following a probe into ‘hazardous’ living conditions
By Charles Creitz Fox News
As Americans celebrate freedom nationwide on July 4, some of those charged with preserving that liberty are still living in squalor months after a damning Government Accountability Office report exposed some of the worst conditions, several lawmakers said in a letter to Army brass.
A dozen lawmakers demanded the military branch take swifter action at its stateside bases, including North Carolina’s sprawling Fort Liberty; formerly Fort Bragg.
Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., whose district includes the 250-square-mile installation, led a recent letter calling on Army Secretary Christine Wormuth to fix “completely unacceptable” conditions, while acknowledging some, however insufficient, progress has been made.
“We need to know whether the Army is doing all it can to quickly implement effective solutions to improve housing conditions like we’ve seen at Fort Liberty/Fort Bragg,” Hudson separately told Fox News Digital.
“Not only is better quality housing key to help meet recruitment and retention goals, it is critical to ensuring our military’s readiness.”
Army Family Awarded $10.3 Million After Living in Mold-Infested Home at Texas’ Fort Cavazos
By Steve Beynon
An Army family at Fort Cavazos in Texas was awarded $10.3 million Monday after living in a mold-infested home run by a private Army housing company and repeated hospitalizations of their newborn infant for respiratory difficulties.
Sgt. Jason Kiernan’s wife Sarah was having constant health problems, including respiratory issues, during her pregnancy while living in the house, according to the lawsuit. Two months later, their newborn was hospitalized for 20 days. The family eventually discovered black mold behind the walls.
The arbitration award is among the most significant in recent military history as mold has become a top issue that service leaders have struggled to remedy. Meanwhile, private military housing providers operate with relatively little oversight from the Army despite years of outcry from service members and lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
The house the Kiernans lived in and its subsequent maintenance was managed by Cavalry Family Housing, which has some 5,000 homes around Fort Cavazos in its portfolio. The housing company did not return a request for comment.
How’s that enlistment and retention going, Pentagon? This is what happens when “Senior Leadership” abrogates its responsibilities to the troops, and it isn’t just an Army issue. Thanks to Mick for the head’s up.
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$200 billion to the Ukraine and we have soldiers living in squalor.
There is no 10% to the big guy in decent military housing.
Changes coming in November…
Trump won’t have as many DC Swamp creatures in his cabinet/admin ranks though its impossible to flush them all out. No more Bush #43 RINOs as DJT learned his lesson. This Russia-Ukraine War ends shortly as they see Trump winning and shutting off the cash spigot.
Hopefully he kicks the Milleys and the likes to the retirement line. What were they thinking when they admitted they circumvented the sitting President and did what they wanted. That opened alot of eyes.
A lot of the housing at Cavazos has masonry walls that create mold inside. They just paint over it
Fort Sh*thole
I wish that I was compensated for the mold and asbestos in the barracks. Different rules?
Find the officer responsible for base housing, audit him and if irregularities are found court martial his a@@ for bribery. If they”re not found court martial him for dereliction of duty. Easy Peasy.
Five-Sided Sphincter.
Inexcusable. Put Flag/GOs in basic quarters, along with Kongress Kritters and this problem will be fixed. While you’re at it, have Kongress Kritters report to the VA for Health Care. That’ll get fixed too.
As others have pointed out here before, myself included, the $s we are laundering on overseas grift would go a long way to fixing problems we have here.
The thanks of a grateful nation ring somewhat hollow when your base housing puts your baby in the hospital for 20 days…at an age where that could have killed the child…
Meanwhile, ILLEGAL LAIENS are housed in much cleaner places.
The Army is far more interested in pronouns than in soldiers’ welfare, it seems.
Get All-Points Logistics off the contract.