Pentagon inspecting all barracks since the youtube video

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Just saw on CNN a guy from the pentagon and they apparently are

inspecing all barracks in the US. Guess the video caught their

attention. We should gather our photos and made something similar. I

don't have equipment but I have photos. Just a suggestion. Pictures are

worth a thousand words as they say.

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That is fabulous. I have whatever needed to make videos If this is a project

anyone would like to begin I am willing to take it on. Not to promote anything

of my own, you are all welcome to see some of the projects I have done for my

kids at www.youtube.com/tazinround I have done video editing for many friends

etc. although ideas are always used and accepted. Keep in mind though the limit

is 100meg for youtube. I can mix video with pictures as well. I am very open to

the idea.

ldelp84227 <ldelp84227@...> wrote: Just saw on CNN a guy from the

pentagon and they apparently are

inspecing all barracks in the US. Guess the video caught their

attention. We should gather our photos and made something similar. I

don't have equipment but I have photos. Just a suggestion. Pictures are

worth a thousand words as they say.

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Want to mention when I called Sen. Dole's office concerning the

barracks for Charlie Co. 2/508 82nd airbourne, I was told that Senator Dole had

made an appeal to the Army Secretary concerning this matter. I did not inquire

about the time she had done this so I have no timetable. Just to think that the

pentagon is now involved, is very hopeful. God Bless everyone for taking the

time to care and get involved. Chrissy Mann Just saw on CNN a guy from

the pentagon and they apparently are inspecing all barracks in the US. Guess the

video caught their attention. We should gather our photos and made something

similar. I don't have equipment but I have photos. Just a suggestion. Pictures

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To bad my brother does not talk to the family much anymore. He is a Major on his

way to be stationed at the Pentogon. I can only wonder where and what kind of

influence he might have or be able to help with. Hmmm

chrissy <microbes4u@...> wrote: Want to mention when I called

Sen. Dole's office concerning the barracks for Charlie Co. 2/508 82nd

airbourne, I was told that Senator Dole had made an appeal to the Army Secretary

concerning this matter. I did not inquire about the time she had done this so I

have no timetable. Just to think that the pentagon is now involved, is very

hopeful. God Bless everyone for taking the time to care and get involved.

Chrissy Mann Just saw on CNN a guy from

the pentagon and they apparently are inspecing all barracks in the US. Guess the

video caught their attention. We should gather our photos and made something

similar. I don't have equipment but I have photos. Just a suggestion. Pictures

are worth a thousand words as they say. ---------------------------------Be

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You might want to email this news story to your brother. Now that the

Pentagon has acknowledged that they have a mold problem at Fort

Bragg, you might help your brother score some points with his

superiors, by bringing this mold problem at Fort Bliss, Texas. to

their attention. Who knows, it might even bring the two of you closer

together.

Joe

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Family Complains About Fort Bliss Housing

Novick-KFOX News Reporter

POSTED: 6:07 pm MDT April 18, 2008

UPDATED: 6:57 pm MDT April 18, 2008

EL PASO, Texas -- The Spires family, who live on Fort Bliss, said

their first government home was infested with termites, mice and

mold, and the military moved them out of that home immediately. When

the Spires got to their second home on post, it also had a mold

problem, and they said the military did nothing to fix it.

" We lived in the house for seven months and with that level of high

toxic molds, I mean they had flu-like conditions, my son has a huge

skin rash, my daughter missed 13 days of school, " said

Spires. " They said they would get a mold inspector out, but then they

told me that mold doesn't exist in El Paso. "

Spires went to the doctor's office, and came back with

notes " recommending alternate living quarters. "

" I had doctor's notes, I took them to the manager and the assistant

manager, and they said doctor's notes don't matter to them, " said

Spires.

So Spires took matters into her own hands.

" We hired our own mold inspector and it came back that we had the

highest level of molds, every kind of mold including the toxic black

mold, " said Spires.

She had to go through her husband's chain of command to finally move

out, into a new home on post in February.

" It's very difficult, with two kids and they're always sick, you

know, and I've run out of people to turn to, nobody wants to help, "

Spires told KFOX. " We shouldn't be treated like second-class

citizens, especially when our husbands are fighting for their

freedom. "

Fort Bliss officials said they have opened an investigation into what

happened with Spires' old house, and that they should have a response

by Monday.

Spires said the most difficult part has been having to do all of this

on her own, because her husband is in training preparing to go to

Iraq.

Link to story online:

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/15928295/detail.html?rss=elp & psp=news

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Want to mention when I

called Sen. Dole's office concerning the barracks for

Charlie Co. 2/508 82nd airbourne, I was told that Senator Dole had

made an appeal to the Army Secretary concerning this matter. I did

not inquire about the time she had done this so I have no timetable.

Just to think that the pentagon is now involved, is very hopeful. God

Bless everyone for taking the time to care and get involved. Chrissy

Mann

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Army widens probe after finding bad conditions at Fort Bragg Army to inspect

every barracks building worldwide after finding bad conditions at Fort Bragg By

ROBERT BURNS The Associated Press WASHINGTON

Army officials said Tuesday they are inspecting every barracks building

worldwide to see whether plumbing and other problems revealed at Fort Bragg,

N.C., last week are widespread.

Brig. Gen. Dennis , who is responsible for maintaining barracks

throughout the Army, told reporters at the Pentagon that most inspections were

done last weekend but he had not seen final results.

While not providing specifics about problems discovered during the weekend

inspections, indicated some deficiencies were corrected. In cases where

extensive repairs are deemed necessary, the soldiers in that housing would be

moved elsewhere until the fixes are completed, he added.

said it was too soon to know whether the Fort Bragg problem was an

isolated incident. He acknowledged the revelations from a video shot by the

father of an 82nd Airborne Division soldier showing poor conditions such as mold

inside the barracks, peeling interior paint and a bathroom drain plugged with

sewage.

The soldier's father, Ed Frawley, said he was disgusted by the conditions that

greeted his son and the rest of his 82nd Airborne unit that returned on April

7-8 after a 15-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.

" We let our soldiers down, and that's not like us, " told reporters. " We

let our soldiers down. That's not how we want America's sons and daughters to

live. There's no good excuse for what happened. "

He said the problems in that building have been fixed and that a final paint

job is in the works. It is one of 24 barracks at Fort Bragg that were built in

the 1950s and are scheduled for demolition by 2013. The barracks singled out by

Frawley had been remodeled in April 2006, said.

said the Army's standard procedure is to inspect a barracks building to

verify that it meets Army standards before it is occupied by soldiers returning

from an overseas deployment. For reasons he was unable to explain, that

apparently did not happen in the Fort Bragg incident.

A spokesman for Fort Bragg, Tom McCollum, told the same group of reporters

that the post, which is one of the Army's largest with a population of 51,000

soldiers — including more than 12,000 who live on the post — is saddled with

1950s-vintage housing that is not popular with soldiers.

Of the more than 12,000 in barracks at Fort Bragg, about 2,500 are in those

built in the 1950s, Army spokesman Boyce said.

" Are soldiers happy with living in the Korean War-era barracks? No, " McCollum

said. They do not meet the expectations of today's troops, although the Army has

done what it can to improve living conditions, McCollum said, speaking by

telephone from Fort Bragg.

" Today, no matter how hard we try, we can't put enough lipstick on this pig to

make it more pretty, " the spokesman said. " So are there soldiers complaining?

Yeah. " He said they've been complaining for decades.

Some lawmakers are calling for Congress to investigate.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who is seeking the Democratic

presidential nomination, told The Fayetteville Observer that she has asked the

Senate Armed Services Committee to hold a hearing on Fort Bragg and the broader

issue of living conditions for returning troops, the paper said on its Web site

Tuesday night.

North Carolina holds its presidential primary next Tuesday.