More on Fort Bragg

This, from Brandon Friedman at Vet Voice. From the comments, it appears that the private contractors who are responsible for actual maintenance work are even less efficient than the government as a whole -- and cost a lot more.

Those barracks were fucked up a long time ago, and this SNAFU isn't half as bad as what happened when we returned from Afghanistan the first time. While we deployed, they activated the Puerto Rican National Guard to cover down on our homeland security tasks. Needing a place to put them, the post leadership ordered our Rear-D to pack up all of our troopers' personal stuff from their banded and sealed rooms. Movers came in and packaged it all up, with one Rear-D bubba per hallway. You can imagine how many credit cards, CDs and other personal items disappeared in the course of that unplanned move. Platoon CPs were jammed into closets. It was thoroughly fucked up and was really icing on the cake after an extended deployment and a stop-loss.

The real question should really go to the contractors building the new barracks - why weren't those ready yet? Those new units should have all been prepared by now (having started almost 10 years ago), which is the real reason these barracks have been maintained on the cheap for so long.

Y'know, these people -- our troops -- should be treated like royalty for what they've offered the rest of us. (OK -- a bit of over-the-top emotionalism there, but on the whole, I think, justified.) Something like this is just beyond the pale.