A spokeswoman for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole said Dole’s staff is contacting Fort Bragg and Pentagon officials today in response to a just-posted YouTube video that depicts soldiers living in deplorable conditions in a base barracks.

The spokeswoman, Amy Auth, said Dole’s office was unaware of the video until The Fayetteville Observer asked for a response this morning.

“We are certainly looking into it,” Auth said, noting that Dole has called for accelerated funding for new Fort Bragg housing.

The YouTube video shows paint peeling and falling from exposed pipes in the barracks, mildewed ceilings and showers, a toilet seat torn in half and a soldier standing on a sink trying to unplug a bathroom drain. Sewage appears to cover the bathroom floor.

The video was made by Edward Frawley, the father of a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division who returned from Afghanistan on April 13 and is among the soldiers now living in the barracks.

“This is unbelievable,” Frawley says in the video. “It’s disgusting. It makes me mad as hell. If these buildings were in any city in America and were called apartments, dormitories, they would be condemned.”

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http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=292386

Guarantee you I'll be spreading the word about this one. This shouldn't be happening .

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

I wonder what happened to work detail and maintaining their own.Does the sand crabs clean a Military Barracks.

Sully I may be wrong but if this is what they walked back into then who did not take care of the billets while they were gone? We have rear detachments for that kind of thing. Someone's ass should be up the creek for this, this is discusting.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080429/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bad_barracks

That's what I thought I can understand about the plumbing and certain things that public works takes care of but mildew and the clean part bothers me people in Transit always took care of the Barracks while waiting for transfer at least non-coms.

As long as I was in the army we always sent advance parties to get us set up and always left a rear detachment with and OIC and NCOIC with enought troops to maintain the rear area including the dependents.

http://www.army.mil/-news/2008/04/30/8869-problems-corr...at-fort-bragg-dorms/
This is the real story

It made the TV news media this morning and the problem is being fixed.

Harry it begs the question, why was this allowed to happen if as the goverment states we have the best and most modern military in the world?

I can tell you fellows...


With today's 'Army Of One'...that 'one' soldier just can't get around to fix everything!

i do understand your disgust at all this

the sme thing has happened in the uk

its all about 'saving' money and to hell with

the boys who have to live there. wonder if the

powers that be would live in those conditions

hope your campaign to highlight this goes well

regards