DC:
The Marine Corps’ service-wide inspection that ended March 15 found that many Marines are living in “uninhabitable” conditions, but the path to fixing a decades-old problem will not be easy, according to Marines who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
In February, Marine Corps acting Commandant Gen. Christopher Mahoney issued guidance for installation commanders to conduct “wall-to-wall” inspections of conditions at all housing facilities for single Marines by March 15. While a final assessment of the barracks is not yet ready, initial results of the investigation, which spanned 60,000 rooms at 25 installations across the globe, show that some Marines are living in filthy, cramped quarters, often with broken appliances and lack of privacy — “consistent” with the findings of a watchdog report released in September, the service confirmed to the DCNF. more
I also heard there was a dangerously short supply of red Crayons. 😉
In all seriousness, Marines deserve better.
“but the path to fixing a decades-old problem will not be easy”
I call BS. It would be easy if the government actually gave a rat’s behind. When you have a corrupt administration that shells out billions to a country that wants us destroyed (Iran), billions to a corrupt country (Ukraine), and welcomes military-aged males across our uncontrolled borders you know where the priorities lie, and it isn’t with those who have volunteered to protect this country.
but illegals get all their shit for free? fuck you Biden and the U.S. government. it’s coming!
THIS WAS THE SAME SHAMEFUL BULLSHIT UNDER CARTER, CLINTON, OBAMA…AND NOW OUR CINC IS A FECKLESS, CORRUPT FOOL WHOSE PRIORITY LIST HAS DEFENSE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TOTEM POLE….AFTER ALL THE DEI/SOCIAL JUSTICE/WOKE PUSSY CRAPOLA
FUCK YOU DEMOCRATS, WHERE WILL YOU HIDE WHEN THE BALLOON GOES UP???
Flip the script. Force US Senators to live in those conditions and lavish the Senators’ luxuries on the real public servants.
I left the Marine Corps 42 years ago … I guess some things never change.
I spent 4 years at Lejeune in the early 90s in French Creek, right along the river. 2nd FSSG. The barracks conditions were not horrible, not great. Thursday evenings were spent cleaning them (and drinking a lot). Basically a small dorm room.
You walk out,say fuck you.
Then see what happens.
The new WOKE Corp must not have field day cleaning every week.
If living conditions are filthy, it must be sh!ty Marines or their leadership.
Let me guess, the “White Glove” was deemed racist.
That used to suck, when the OD pulled out his white gloves.
I was Police Sargent for the barracks with 2 “Noteworthys” on command IG inspections. I know how to clean.
In every war zone in which the Marines fought, they lived in uninhabitable conditions.
Thr maggots infestong our government couldnt care less.
Thr maggots infesting our government couldnt care less.
broken air conditioning?
broken door locks, broken elevators?
overcrowded barracks?
What do they think? It’s not the Air Force.
I spent 22 1/2 months living in tents with cots.
6 months in a tent with pallets as the floor to stay out of the mud. 2 months in a tent with a sand floor. The rest of the time it was a tent with wood floors. Air conditioning was rolling up the tent sides. No doors, no locks, no elevators, no privacy, all the C-Rations you could eat, $2.00 per carton for cigarettes and all the sandbags you could fill.
The rest of my enlistment was in quonset huts or barracks built in the ’40s and early ’50s. Some with doors, no locks, no air conditioning, no elevators, no privacy, with an open squad bay with Marine’s racks 3 feet apart.
That was my Rose Garden, with plenty of cards, ample supply of Scarlet and Gold crayons, all the ammo we could shoot and all the bullshit work details to waste away the hours of garrison duty.
Don’t misunderstand me, my generation (I think we are referred to as Boomers) had it much better that WWII and Korean vets. But still, air conditioning?
I got this from an old retired SgtMaj buddy that lives in Okinawa about three weeks ago. And when I heard the term MARINE CORPS HOUSING my mind automatically envisioned a QUONSET HUT! Not that I was ever housed in one just from images stuck in my mind.
When I was “housed with Marines” it was in a big ass tent on cots back at the fire base, otherwise we lived in the hole in the ground we just dug for the night (or how ever long we stayed in that location).
I do know that military families (mainly enlisted) living on base and off are living below the poverty level, and that’s nothing new.
BUT AT LEAST CONGRESS CAN STILL GIVE THEMSELVES A RAISE FOR DOING NOTHING!
I was assigned to a Joint Unit at MacDill AFB back in the 80’s. I was Air Force living on base in housing that the Air Force considered sub-standard so I got a Sub-standard Housing Allotment. The Marines, Army, and Navy did not get that pay. It did not matter much since we were deployed more than we were there.
It’s a small price to pay while “we” have saved government pensions in Ukraine, right Joe?
Hey, in the 70s I was in a Combat Comm Group in the Air Force, when we were deployed we lived in 12 man tents and ate C rations. 12 hour shifts and no days off. When we were on base it was a different story – early afternoon the shop supervisor would pick one person to man the phones and everyone else left early.
I had a friend who joined the Air Force in the late 60’s and the recruiter was cool the talked about camping, fishing, and all sorts of fun stuff. He told him how cool it would be days on the beach, lots of girls…”SIGN ME UP!”
He ended up in Vietnam in a SAR unit (Search And Rescue) that would jump in to recover downed aviators! Three Purple Hearts later he told me he thinks the recruiter screwed him!
When I got to NAS Miramar (now MCAS Miramar) just N. of San Diego in Jan. 1973 I was in an open barracks with cubicles separating our sleeping quarters. On board the Kitty Hawk we slept in racks stacked 3 high with 6 guys in a small cubicle and all the enlisted guys about 80 or so of us in a long narrow berthing quarter. My particular quarters were directly underneath the aft end of the flight deck and under the arresting gear cables. Needless to say, it was very noisy especially when our jets were landing practically right over our quarters. I could get up to the flight deck in a matter of seconds since we very close to the catwalk on the starboard side of the ship, although out line shack was far towards the bow thru a long narrow passageway with many a hatch to duck your head under on the way to the line shack. I once ran the whole distance thru that narrow passageway in about a minute or so during a general quarters drill. After a while we got used to it but that first time the jets started landing right over the top of us it startled the hell out of me. In 1974 we got a brand new and barracks with individual rooms for 4 guys with our own shower and toilets and laundry facilities. The chow hall was a short walk away from our barracks. It was a nice barracks when I was there. After the 74 WestPac cruise I moved off base with 2 other guys from my squadron into N. San Diego about 8 to 10 miles away. And I used to ride my bike back and forth to Miramar until I got my 56 Ford F100 P/U from home and would drive to work. Overall, we had it far better than the Army or the Marines and I have no complaints. The military needs to do better in how they treat their enlisted personnel on or off base. It’s a shame that it’s come to this, they deserve better.
Not be easy fixing it? BS. Zero to the Ukes and billions to the Marines and other services.
Their living quarters don’t need AC or elevators. Fix the basic stuff like toilets, showers, walls, and eliminate pests. There must be lots and lots of contractors who will be able and willing to do the work and get well paid for it. They should be able to do it in 2-3 years. Hire not just one contractor which will stretch the contract out to 2040. Hire lots of them wherever the Marine Units are located and get it done.
There are no excuses for housing our servicepeople in decrepit stateside structures. They will have plenty of uncomfortable living situations in war zones.
Spending the money on keeping Admiral Levine Pretty & Female in the Shitpants administration instead of paying the troops.
When we were out at sea, we worked 12 on 12 off 7 days a week and during full balls to the walls flight ops 16 to 20 hrs. a day with an occasional nap in between sorties. We also ate 3 times a day and if I was working nights which I mostly did there was a 4th meal with midrats in the middle of the night. I never knew what day it was since it didn’t matter and besides when you’re in the middle of the Pacific or Indian oceans or the S China Sea there’s nowhere else to go. The only way that I knew it was Sunday was when the Chaplain would come over the ship’s PA and announce religious services on the poopdeck up toward the bow of the Kitty Hawk.
geoff The only ship I was ever aboard while in the Navy was the Kitty Hawk when she came in to Yokosuka, a friend from home contacted me and said he would give us a tour. It was the day of his Division’s party and him being a Mormon didn’t drink, so that meant he got the duty!
That’s as close as I ever got to being a “Sailor”.
My niece’s husband was a snipe, a boiler room tech on the Kitty Hawk when it was the forward positioned aircraft carrier at Yokusaka in Japan. He worked deep down below inside the bowels of the ship working on the boilers. It gave him a very marketable trade when he got out of the Navy, and he has worked for the Tillamook cheese factory and various breweries on the west coast including Rainier beer maintaining their boilers and other equipment. The last that I heard from him, and my niece was that he eventually wants to open his own microbrewery. I got to work up on the flight deck while he toiled deep down inside the guts of the Kitty Hawk keeping it going out on the oceans. I kid him about that, but you need both in order to man a giant aircraft carrier and keep it afloat. I got to see the sun and the dark black nights and the immense vast expanses of the Pacific and Indian oceans while he was very rarely was up on the flight deck except for inspections and other special occasions.
You can’t call some illegals “animals”, but it’s okay for our soldiers to live like animals. Have I got it right?
And it’s not just the Marines; the Army is guilty of the same shameful treatment. I bet if anyone looked, they’d find some nasty ghettos in the Navy and Air Force. And then there’s the forced habs.No wonder the services can’t recruit anybody. It’s ironic that when we have black men at the top in the Pentagon, our soldiers are treated like slaves.
forced jabs
Marine Corps Commodant Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler tried to warn America in the early 30s, but nobody bothered to listen, and millions continued to volunteer.
While in the USAF, I was forced to stay in a 4-Star hotel where the room service took forever to deliver. I’m still clutching my pearls over that. OK, maybe not! I was sent to RAF Alconbury in the UK in 1974 and the enlisted barracks were left over from WWII. The walls were two sheets of plywood with crumbly asbestos between them. There were holes around the windows that you could see the outside from. I didn’t have to stay there long as I was married and moved off base into a 400-year-old cottage with coal fireplaces. Good times!
If the military can’t provide decent on-base housing they should be required to pay BAQ and BAR. As has been noted, Washington has enough money to send billions to Ukraine and spend billions more on ‘newcomers’. Both Clinton and 0bama really screwed our military. Clinton closed over a hundred bases and pink slipped half a million soldier, the jug eared community agitator purged almost 200 flag officers deemed disloyal to his regime.
Austin says it’s Jab or Jail,
AUSTIN SAYS IT’S JAB OR JAIL
I refuse, there ain’t no bail,
I REFUSE, THERE AIN’T NO BAIL
Pentagon plantation said,
PENTAGON PLANTATION SAID
I don’t jab, I’ll soon be dead.
I DON’T JAB, I’LL SOON BE DEAD
Sound off,
ONE-TWO
Sound off,
THREE-FOUR
Sound off,
ONE-TWO…THREE-FOUR!
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The Commandant serves a term of 4 years, so when he says it will be a decade to fix, he’s kicking the can down the road and saying it’s not my problem.
Active duty, USN, Coronado Is. CA.
Barracks were pre WWII, horrible but we kept them clean.
Then to Treasure Is. San Fransisco, now we are talkin’, new, like a HoJo with communal bathrooms.
We even had beer gedunk, quarter a can, life was good.
Went down hill from there.