https://www.foxnews.com/us/troops-plagued-filthy-conditions-squatter-military-barracks

CW: suicide

In one extreme case, officials at one installation told GAO investigators that “service members are responsible for cleaning biological waste that may remain in a barracks room after a suicide.”

45 points

Critical support to the US military contract grift for bankrupting the nation while also providing absolutely nothing of value to any human being part of the US military industrial complex. Truly printing money and dumping it straight into a bonfire would be less wasteful.

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When I was stationed in San Diego back in the 90s there was a barracks I lived in temporarily that we were told was supposed to be condemned for various reasons but was left open for years, as overflow. I don"t know if that was true, but I know you could tell when someone would flush a toilet in the building because a massive wave of cockroaches would emerge from the manhole cover behind the building, only to recede back in a few minutes later. We tried not to think of the physics of how many roaches must’ve been in there for that to be necessary.

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32 points

That is an incredible detail I am stealing the fuck out of for a story

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Lol, go wild with it.

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19 points

I’m both horrified and curious about the roach-waste wave physics.

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Like it’d have to be a lot, right?!

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25 points

Oh hey the wallpaper has peeled far enough you can see the rot underneath cool

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Last, DOD needs to reexamine its policies about which service members are required to live in barracks, both because this problem will not be fixed overnight and because existing policies have led to a perception of inequity among junior enlisted service members

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existing policies have led to a perception of inequity among junior enlisted

Lmao, that’s a material fact, not a fucking “perception”

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I remember going to a Bernie rally where some boot was convinced that North Korea chemtrailing their base in S. Korea was the reason he had a stroke.

pessimism

Still kind of bugs me that Bernie made absolutely no mention of lgbt issues at that rally.

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