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General Pledges Fixes For Fort Bragg Barracks
by Gerry J. Gilmore, American Forces Press Service04/30/2008
“It is my responsibility for maintaining barracks throughout the Army,” Brig. Gen. Dennis E. Rogers, deputy director of operations and facilities for U.S. Army Installation Management Command, in Arlington, Va., said today during a roundtable discussion with Pentagon reporters.
“Folks, we let our soldiers down, and that’s not like us,”
Earlier this month, the father of one of the Fort Bragg-based soldiers uploaded a video onto an Internet Web site that depicted a clogged bathroom drain and profuse peeling paint inside a 1950s-vintage barracks that housed his son and some other 82nd Airborne Division soldiers who recently redeployed to Fort Bragg after a duty tour in Afghanistan.
However, work orders had already been submitted to correct the barrack’s discrepancies that were identified in the video,
“The flaking paint condition was, in fact, ugly… We have scraped that paint off, and the surfaces are being repainted,”
The clogged and flooded drain in the bathroom floor was reported and repaired immediately, he said.
Twenty-three other 1950s-style barracks are in use on
There is a process in place at Army posts worldwide in which older barracks in use are maintained until they are torn down,
The older barracks used to house soldiers “are looking worse and worse, so we’re getting the new barracks on line as soon as possible,”
Senior Army leaders directed garrison commanders worldwide to walk through and inspect their barracks April 26-27,
“We got most of those barracks looked at,” Rogers said, noting some rooms were unavailable for inspection until residents had returned from four-day passes.
Meanwhile, Army garrison commanders and command sergeants major have made an assessment that soldiers are housed in accordance with Army standards,
Installation Management Command’s top enlisted person, Command Sgt. Major Debra L. Strickland, accompanied
Taking care of soldiers, including ensuring their living quarters meet Army standards, is an NCO’s primary task, Strickland told reporters.
“The noncommissioned corps has the basic responsibility for the welfare of our soldiers,” Strickland pointed out.
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