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Screwed up living conditions for US troops
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04-08-2009, 04:55 PM
paulpratt
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Someone said to keep track of the work orders.
Now, as far as the A/C building unit being inoperational, the only thing we can do is make phone calls. I usually do my best to get names.
Whenever I have names, I write them down. Apparently, no one with the names I have is fully responsible for determining the activation of the heating/cooling. According to the people I speak with, it's in control of post command. Now, I highly doubt the post general here at "The Pit" has some big honkin' switch for heat and air FOR THE WHOLE BASE.
I have addressed this to my chain of command, of course. I seem to hit a brick wall of lectures about how hard they used to have it back in the old days (these are soldiers who deploy and get barracks rooms, as a Marine I lived in a tent and bathed with a baby wipe). I seem to hear all about how shitty this "new army" is, and how we should be thankful we aren't in squad bays, or that we don't have white glove inspections, and blah blah blah. Even the post SMAJ got wind of it, and was told "they're just griping, all it takes is a phone call and the company will fix it". Well, that phone call isn't very useful when it takes DAYS to fix in the bitter cold or blazing summer heat. It's also a problem whenever a storm hits- it knocks out the power and the A/C or heat goes kaput.
The allowance for housing is deducted from the soldier's paycheck for living in the barracks. That amount of money is somewhere around $800 a month for someone like myself. Now, I don't know about you- but for $800 a month I could have a decent one-bedroom apartment with actual privacy.
I've collected photos and videos and stored them on a separate hard drive. I also have recordings of the conversations over the phone with these people from "Extensive Enterprises". I'm tempted to jeopardize my own career by just putting this stuff on you tube or give it to local news media.
You do get that 800 bucks a month in BAH correct? That is part of the contractual housing arrangement. You give the full BAH to the contractors in exchange for the apartment. It's the same at the post my wife and I are PCS-ing to.
Being in the marines, you will hit a hell of a lot more brick walls than you would in either the army or the air force. It's just the mentality, but i don't have to tell you about that.
If you are E-4 or above you can apply to live off base and put that BAH to good use. If you can work it, sometimes you can actually make money on the deal, but that depends greatly on where you live.
You can go as far as to write a formal letter to your congressman. It sounds cheesy but my wife has done it and got traction. It depends on the subject matter though. Anything is better than nothing at this point though.
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