Marines made to fix Busted Barracks!

[@AngryCops]

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[@johnsobery8386]

This calls for a special edition this old crackhouse barracks or military housing edition

[@charlie21gunner87]

Once while restricted to the barracks and on extra duty we were told to paint the company commanders office. They actually gave us a choice of 3 colors. Light pink, cream, and dark brown, needless to say the entire office was tri-tone, it looked like a giant neapolitan ice cream samich.

[@cowboyboots9901]

So how many UCMJ cases are going pop up because marines were unable to repair the damage and made it worse?

[@cojones8518]

I think the PTSD from This Old Crackhouse is catching up AC. Might want to sit down and have a beer, pet the dog, and watch some My Little Ponies.

[@derekwpennington1796]

WOW FIX THAT FUCKED UP PINKY FINGER😂😂😂😂😂 NASTIEST PHONE SIGN LANGUAGE EVER 😂😂😂😂

[@crcduster2047]

Soon there will be the barracks bunny quick escape hatches

[@williamhoppe7962]

Stripper poles anyone?

[@RockMountainYJ]

Improvised VC tunnels connecting rooms.

[@drewcagno]

Genius!!! And very quite likely already being built

[@ordo_draigo_assault_ham]

Basement harems incoming

[@spikymikie]

Or Barracks Bunnies safe rooms.

[@prestobizmal]

I love the look of fear in his eyes thinking about Marines with Power Tools. "I don't know what happened sir! I was safety squinting the whole time!"

[@terpman]

You can't shoot the enemy if you disable your own hand.

[@AmazingDisgrace911]

This old crack barracks would make a great series.

[@dennislosee]

Sir we gave him a drill, saw and a screwdriver. He returned 3 crayons…

[@johndecker9983]

​@dennislosee give that Marine the "personal restraint" Award. He did return 3 of them. 😂

[@Matthew-zu6tm]

I resemble that remark! Prior Marine and current Electrician with Prior experience in Pest Control and Construction. BobCat, Bulldozer, DitchWitch, Backhoe, Demo Saws. You need it destroyed with no overtime with precision. It's done and over with.

[@workingclassbear6523]

All the corrupt kickbacks are insane.

[@dustyking8851]

Is Boeing involved? Probably.

[@Herpetile]

Its not called the INDUSTRIAL militarty complexx for no reason

[@moosepasshippie]

I’m working on a base housing project. It is the most over the top BS I have ever seen. It is spend $10 and recoup 25 cents that I have ever seen. Then the red tape. FYI, the government doesn’t require licensed tradesmen to perform work, they say it discriminates.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Meanwhile, more and more functions for troops are privatized, making things WORSE for troops as private companies have a... PROFIT MOTIVE!

[@Dunkys1234]

The saws they're going to get to cut the drywall is probably going to cost the government like $2k for a dewalt oscillating saw you could get at lowes for $150

[@enoughofyourkoicarp]

Cut to a marine running around with a circular saw, Texas chainsaw massacre style, wearing nothing but a PT belt, screaming "I am invincible!" while, of course, absolutely hammered.

[@MuskMonkey]

This is exactly what will happen. When I was in the 1st sgt insisted that the catwalk wasn't white enough. My room mates and I got drunk unclothed put on gas masks and proceeded to mix all our cleaning liquids in a bucket and scrub the catwalk with it. I'm not sure what we made but the catwalk turned bone white, and we probably committed a war crime. We passed field day though, so mission accomplished.

[@kabob0077]

​@@MuskMonkeyHow long did it stay bone white?

[@MuskMonkey]

@@kabob0077 3rd deck 21 area camp Pendleton. Last I knew Intel company was on deck 1&2 but that was in the 90s... I was with the meu at the time. Could be still for all I know.

[@AChunkyDog]

"I don't want to be a Marine anymore, I want to be a handyman. I'm going to stop shaving so I'll get discharged."

[@TheGraffiti600rr]

Just say you're a woman. There's no regs for women shaving. Geez. 😂😂😂

[@randomaccount7815]

based.

[@kevbu4]

Sounds like now you can be a Marine and a Handyman at the same time.

[@AChunkyDog]

@@kevbu4 But you can't be a muhreendy man with a scruffy hobo beard

[@patricklawrence7483]

Think about the kids who had to help their handyman father's growing up, then joined the Marines to get away from that. Talk about dafuq?!

[@jackmehoff2363]

We for sure need a marine who does a home renovation channel and every single problem is fixed in the most marine grunt way.

[@monabale8263]

😎

[@karlsnod2784]

Military "home improvement" channel would be great

[@SalmonFiend69]

Look up isaac telford

[@NeviQAdnariM]

As a former connoisseur of crayons and construction worker I am uniquely qualified for this

[@raptorbadger69]

Would watch

[@therocinante3443]

Well if we'll have marines fixing their barracks, we should have contractors do beach landings.

[@supremejackazz8948]

Good one😂

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Biological remediators- charge the bunker! Drywallers - set suppressing fire! - edit: Oh, and the building code violations that will result from having all of these untrained contractors repairing and modifying things will be a fun 3,000 Congressional report.

[@maxscott3349]

What are we going to call them? How about "Construction battalions" or something like that

[@spartanhawk7637]

That’d make an amazing comedy sketch honestly.

[@dakoderii4221]

Only if they are a Transformer. The Decepticons deserve the job the most for being the most insane. It's diversity and tolerance or something.

[@HighLordComedian]

Why do we keep getting into these losing wars? Vietnam, Afghanistan, and now the war on black mold

[@shiTheadith]

Hey at least we have men dressing like women. That's a win, right?

[@zaynevanday142]

😂😂😂

[@cojones8518]

Emus

[@Johnny-j5n]

You forgot the war on drugs

[@SumDumFuku2]

Please don't let them make a war against poverty.

[@foad-esad]

In the late 1980’s, we had 2 engineer soldiers whose job was to fix everything that broke in the barracks. They loved their job, never had to do CQ or guard duty. Had their own shop and reported directly to the 1SG.

[@ShiningDarknes]

Yeah... maybe a survey of the personnel on base concerning if any have prior construction, home improvement, or contractor experience then assigning them to be their own special unit that handles the maintenance and repair work their apparently useless contractors are incapable of would speed up the process and generally make everyone's lives better that "fix it yourself" what's that, don't know how to use the tools and have never patched drywall? Figure it out, have fun costing us (and by proxy the taxpayers) more than if we just hired a qualified professional to do it in the first place. The crazy thing is they are testing this shit out with marines, the guys most known for coming up with stupid shit to solve problems. (and I mean that in the best possible way) What could possibly go wrong?

[@bakobuck]

Not only am I looking forward to reading about the repairs in the future, I am practically giddy at the prospect of seeing pictures of the innovative barrack upgrades on future episodes.

[@centurionflorian4906]

On the one hand, I hope it goes well. On the other, I feel like if the corporations running housing don’t get a pay cut for failing to do their jobs and essentially just forcing service members to do the work in their place, then we are just giving them exactly what they want: being paid to sit there and do nothing.

[@txdino6063]

After doing a stint as an S4, Angry cops rant about supply SGTs hoarding was spot on. It was a battle to break that mindset. A full supply room of unopened boxes is an indication of failure not success.

[@joshuafischer684]

I'm glad I'm an aircraft maintainer. Our supply system has so much materiel turnover that the personnel don't have time to get attached to any of the parts.

[@willwolf8436]

As a supply Marine I wanted my warehouse fucking empty when we got parts in. As soon as we got shit in, inventoried, and separated by sections, either one of my Marines or I were on the phone calling sections to come pick up their shit.

[@tankfixer59]

When I got sent down from Brigade to take over a supply room where the incumbent was being fired I found all sorts of gear. I figure if its in my supply room I have to count it.. but if I issue it.. its on a hand receipt not my problem..

[@TastyBadger]

Supply NCO frag clubs are there for valid reasons.

[@stevena.5381]

Former USMC Supply NCO. I issued that shit ASAP and had the RO come inventory and take their shit. That's shits going on a CMR and won't be my problem anymore, except for when inventory had to be done but my only job was to tell the RO to go make sure they still have their shit lmao

[@zaynevanday142]

Marine get rid of the mold Marine what are you doing with the company Flamethrower ? 😂😂😂

[@drd675]

are flamethrowers still in armories?

[@gokuusf]

​@@drd675That's classified 😂

[@ironclamp5325]

@@drd675 Nah, they just found some old flamethrower from good old WWII that was shoved in the back of the armory. My base still has like a dozen M16s from Vietnam. Why? I couldn’t tell you if I wanted to.

[@tetedur377]

@@ironclamp5325 Nobody wants to take responsibility for excessing them. Plus: more paperwork. Ain't nobody got time for that. We have grunts to f*ck with when they're trying to turn in weapons.

[@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556]

​@drd675 It's the new don't ask, don't tell...

[@KelticTim]

There’s an episode of MASH where a supply sgt won’t give a hospital an incubator cause he’s only got 3 brand new ones, and if he gives them one then he’d only have 2. That’s a real issue they dealt with in Korea. 75 yrs later, same issue exists

[@Ivanovitch2885]

I was about to post this but you beat me to it. But now it's a government contractor pulling the same shit while they're pulling down millions. Failure to provide services to the US government should be at least a blackball and at best an investigation for fraud.

[@Suzuki_Hiakura]

Same issue, though in far less critical situations it seems... I pity the soldiers in critical situations that are not given equipment due to lazy supply units.

[@k11500]

All they need is a little Radar to get the stuff they need then

[@KelticTim]

@@k11500 E-4 Mafia was def im effect. Radar could get anything, from a 3 day pass to a swimming pool, he got it all

[@BM-wc6bt]

“With all the kids that you had to hide the glue from” couldn’t have been more of a truer statement I’ve ever heard said about my beloved Corps 😂😂

[@shyjy6241]

Lost it when I heard this lmfaooo

[@dodgefire23]

Loved the explanation of Supply hoarding equipment. In 2003, we weren’t allowed to get our eye-pro issued out (in Iraq) because the supply NCO thought we would just get them scratched up.

[@wastelandsniper789]

Much better for the scratching to happen to a cornea. /supply logic

[@rexmasters1541]

I was in those barracks for years. Mold and giant size cockroaches are quite common in that neck of the woods. Mold we used spay bottles with bleach and water 50/50 and presto no mold likes bleach. If you want a clean barracks well you have to do everything yourself. What eats me is the companies that are being paid billions of dollars every year to keep these facilities in good condition. I never saw a single worker fixing a barrack in my 14 years in the Marines.

[@vercingetorix3839]

The Korean contractors respond fast when you file an ARMA report. Complain about a busted fridge, 3 days later see a 70 year old man carrying a brand new refrigerator on his back 4 stories upstairs like it’s his first day of school. Then again, I’ve also seen the Korean contractors paint over black mold, presumably with anti-mold paint. And that’s literally Army wide. I’ve never seen a contractor search for growth cavities or moisture sources, or treat the mold before painting over it. Military wide SOP seems to be to just coat black mold with anti-mold paint, and that’s probably why it’s a huge issue in damn near every barracks

[@500dollarjapanesetoaster8]

You want to actually get some action on it, you stop payment to these outside contractors. Time for some new contractors.

[@vyyr]

@@vercingetorix3839 well, the american problem with mold is using wood inside buildings, all it takes is one leak, one season with too much moisture inside a wall, and its game over since the source of the mold is deep inside your walls.

[@justinwebster7761]

Probably cause they aren't getting paid what they claim and that money is probably getting siphoned off just like every other government contract

[@juhokuusisto9339]

@@vyyr There is nothing wrong with using wood in buildings. There is mistakes, if you let the leaks happen. What should the buoldings be made of, concrete and metal?

[@bruzer75]

Back in 2010 my unit has one million dollars to spend in September. So, aside from a bunch of smaller crap, the unit bought four, FOUR, fully stocked Snap On stack boxes and the mechanics were told to never touch them. A year later, before I got out, those stacks were still shrink wrapped.

[@Token_Black_Guy]

Reeeeeee

[@DrJ8008]

30 trillion in debt and growing

[@ebinecksdee9872]

Shoulda reported their asses for fraud waste and abuse

[@mkm7251]

Money well spent. Tools so good they can get the job done just by staring at them.

[@1337penguinman]

"We just spent all this money on these tools so we don't want you screwing them up." I guarantee you this is exactly what happened.

[@thebigguy9454]

Dry wall? The barracks were made of cinderblocks when I was in.

[@ronaldmcfondle3674]

Still cinder blocks for a lot of them. The new ones are just concrete. No dry wall anywhere...

[@usernamunavailiable]

I think I've seen dry wall in 3 barracks.. Reception in boot camp (1985), Okinawa (1989) and in SEPS (1989) every one of those buildings were built in the 50s or earlier.

[@NicholasSnow-c4e]

(not the military, but still govt property) I watched guys have to install drywall over cinder, they literally used a caulk gun full of liquid nails and then mudded the shit out of it, it didn't look half bad.

[@SGT_Fon]

Wood GI barracks here

[@mgs85]

They're putting drywall over the cinderblocks to liven the place up.

[@icpfann]

My ex worked for a bunch of cleaning and restoration companies. One of them was contracted to fix navy housing water damage, which happened a lot. The base never approved the full fix. Supposed to cut and remove drywall, run dehumidifiers, replace wet insulation and drywall, etc. They never approved even the removal of drywall. Just wanted them to dry everything and spray some chemicals to 'prevent' mold. Company warned mold is inevitable if not repaired correctly, no consideration, just do as you're told.

[@kyle18934]

ah yes. don't make this budget cost more now... instead, make it a re occurring repair. perfection

[@benbouman3245]

Start "leaking" these documents.

[@ShiningDarknes]

@@kyle18934 It's called built-in job security by the client.

[@normduch]

That E6 / Officer bit about gear was SO REAL! AHHHHH. Ita makuh me ah so mad!

[@ThatMattWhite]

Angry: I'm getting flashbacks and PTSD VA: Sorry, not service related

[@beowulfsrevenge4369]

Dude, black mold is a discipline issue. Everyone knows that.

[@MILSPECMOM]

Since no one else said it... well played. o7

[@neekniggit3606]

10% bleach solution will take care of the mold issue in the barracks at least. Can't speak for base housing.

[@mikesdoneitagain4306]

finally. Someone who shaves more than once a day

[@velcrofishsticks6002]

It's a discipline issue, totally not an insulation and humidity issue with the HVAC

[@brad8077]

I hear it’s good on toast.

[@rezzerwrecked]

"You pause this video and you watch it, and then you come back..." Drills and making people re-do training, name a more iconic duo.

[@geocb]

A dude in my old unit caught an Article 15 for painting his own barracks walls because the previous tenant was an alcoholic and frequently threw up on the walls. He even got the paint matched to the exact color but once they caught wind of his actions he was "destroying government property". My biggest question is if this becomes a thing, how much BAH will the service member get back to maintain their own rooms (even if supplies are provided labor isn't)?

[@salt_factory7566]

Each enlisted Marine will be granted a hefty sum of “Figure it the f*** out” in compensation for maintaining their rooms.

[@whiskey_tango_foxtrot__]

I would have requested a court martial

[@barbaramatthews4735]

I would have contested an Art 15 and got a lawyer for Courts Martial. The command would have to explain it. It might have gotten dropped....but it could have been worse. That strategy can be a coin toss. If he had been directly ordered not to beforehand, he was f'ed. If he had documentation of repeated requests, he might have a defense. I'm glad I'm a veteran and don't have to worry about that shit anymore.

[@TheFallenLight44]

We aren’t getting any BAH for it.

[@Cyber_Viking_TX]

The results from this program will be glorious.

[@timcook6566]

In the mid 70’s we were stationed at K-Bay MCAS. Our on base housing was so bad we sometimes had to pour a bucket of feces into the gutter at the end of our driveway and wash it down with the hose. My mom was a nurse at one the local hospitals, and was telling a patient about it. We have no clue how he arranged it, but the next day a civilian plumber knocked on our door, and fixed the problem. He refused to take any money for it. Turns out that friends in low places are valuable assets…the patient was the head of the local mob

[@taylorlibby7642]

We actually got in serious trouble if we tried to fix anything in base housing ourselves.

[@panlukan1]

Same happens in corporate world as well

[@orppranator5230]

Like what?

[@elslick]

Yeah. I got my ass chewed once cause I put a new shower curtain rod up.

[@panlukan1]

@@orppranator5230 Let's say you work a in an office of a big company. There's a small issue you could easily fix yourself, like replace a bulb. Even though it's an easy fix, you have to submit a ticket to have someone come and fix it. After waiting for several months for someone else to fix it, you do it yourself and get yelled at for doing what you're not allowed to do.

[@tetedur377]

But that didn't mean Public Works wouldn't eventually get around to it...just not on your enlistment. They'll still be there, but you'll be 1st Civ Div.

[@tnwhiskey68]

I miss when the military had people that did everything. I was proud of the Army in 2003! Cooks were cooking, water purifiers were purifying, laundry specialists were laundering, then KBR came in and took billions!

[@dustyking8851]

Thanks Halliburton & Dick Cheney. They needed more billions for their 3rd houses & new yachts.

[@tomcoyle7365]

​@dustyking8851 To steal a slogan from V-tubing: "Sink the yacht!"

[@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556]

Yeah, but the bacon was all you can eat...

[@tomcoyle7365]

@@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556 burnt or soggy, it was so good.

[@SaanMigwell]

KBR made a killing on food alone. FOB falcon chow hall in 2005 was something like $35/breakfast, 50$/lunch dinner and like $19/midnight chow. I use to have my squad loot the fridges, and fresh fruit bars. We always had togo orders in for every meal. Everyone ate, and then we got back inline for the rest of the platoon that was out on combat patrols. Six months straight and one platoon makes them Millions in just hot chow, even better was when they charged us the same price for standard A rats and T rats.

[@kengunnett2017]

When I was an Army MP in Germany, we painted walls and repaired doors. You might be surprised by the range of civilian skills could be found within the units members.

[@rungfang27]

I noticed the German contractors were fairly decent, with getting things fixed. Moved stateside and noticed American contractors suck!

[@mattnsac]

Im sure that included mold and asbestos remediation?

[@jiminysnicket86]

You mean when you did handyman work below market for the Army?

[@cantmatchthethatch1472]

Your passion and love for growth and development and hatred of paperwork fills me with life.

[@JakeC-du2vc]

I can already hear "THERE IS SO MUCH ROOM FOR ACTIVITIES!"

[@ShiningDarknes]

I can already see them just tearing down the walls and accidentally collapsing the building because nobody explained to them what a load bearing wall is.

[@JakeC-du2vc]

@@ShiningDarknes 100%

[@papabadgers1555]

And the government wonders why no one is signing up.

[@Suzuki_Hiakura]

actually far more reasons, and I saw the Army making strides to change that, such as changing the drill sergeants style from the classic shark attack for draftees to a more compatible volunteer one. Of course, like I said, there are far more reasons they won't join.

[@NoleMercy]

-Yeah I'm here to get the roto zip. "I don't know what that is, Marine" There's an entire pallet of them behind you. "Negative. Those are: Tool, handheld, cutting, DC powered, 24 volt, rotational, high speed, precision. Your DD-BSOU812 form isn't filled out correctly. Next" -Yeah I'm here for a hammer. "I don't know what that is, Marine"

[@HexLabz]

You forgot that every item ended with a quantity. Usually 1ea. Military taxonomy is out of control. It's almost like all the hashtags on videos and other content. Some of those item descriptions were so stupid it was hilarious.

[@NoleMercy]

@@HexLabz Agree 100% 😂😂😂

[@AngryCops]

Most accurate representation of what’s to come

[@NoleMercy]

@@AngryCops The business model has been in place since before WWI for sure 😂

[@degenerategrappling6503]

"multi directional inertia generator". My father told me when he was in these were 450$ "parts", in reality being nothing more than generic hammers

[@theprussian4616]

I was stationed at Leavenworth, and I gotta say i saw maintenance almost every day working on problems in the barracks. It was a shock to me hearing about how poor these other bases are. I had a light go out, and the next day, it was fixed. An electrical socket died, and it was fixed the same day I put the request in.

[@rssvss]

That was the individuals in maintenance taking pride in their job.

[@stephenlane3099]

You were lucky to have that maintenance man.

[@mikesheber2205]

I can see it now, standing on the yellow footprints, "you have taken the first step to becoming a member of the world's finest carpentry force" this is helpful for lethality and combat readiness. Unbelievable.

[@dashhuber2901]

There was a time when construction and repairs were performed by the Corp of Engineers. On Ft. Riley, we lived in several different barracks over the years I was in. My favorite was one constructed between WW1, and WW2. The Joe's hated it because they had big nasty bays lol. But on every floor there were NCO, and Officer quarters, because back in the day they made the officers live in the same barracks as the enlisted. After my third tour I was the highest ranked man in the barracks, and I got an officers room. It was amazing. I had a living room/kitchenette, a separate bedroom, an office, and my own private bathroom. The biggest problem with mold is that at least in my experience in old barracks is that it tends to start in the walls. You can't get rid of mold like that without tearing walls down. Good luck to those Marines. A man should always be given the opportunity to improve his situation. I honestly wonder how many billions, possibly even trillions of dollars the military has lost by using contractors at this point.

[@jailbird1133]

My experience, the military never wants a proper fix. They just want it done quick and for as little money as possible.

[@joeweisenberger6516]

In 1/8, we had to clean all of our moldy barracks and empty out the command post, literally 3 days before the buildings got demolished

[@beowulfsrevenge4369]

That sounds about right. I went through boot camp in buildings that were "scheduled" for demolition a few weeks after we left because they were condemned. Of course, we had to clean them before we left.

[@DemocracyOfficer2485]

We did that in 2/6 back in 2018 as well lol

[@gokuusf]

So you had 💩bag leadership too huh? 😂

[@gregoryjarvis000]

Military logic at its best. 😂

[@RedTail1-1]

In 07 at my very first duty station I was kicked out of my first barracks because they were demolishing it due to black mold. It was a recently constructed building too. I also still had to pay the fee to forgo inspection despite the fact it was being demolished.

[@JRRob3wn]

I’m retired Coast Guard, we have a lot of very small units (less than 40 people) and we’ve almost always had to maintain our own facilities. Basically imagine being a firefighter or a cop and in between calls you are doing extensive renovations to your fire house or police station. You’re also responsible for painting and doing all mechanical work on your fire engine / police car.

[@darktemplardelta268]

Guess that explains the few times I've seen Coast Guard at my local Home Depot

[@KRoc]

Coast Guard has the highest ASVAB requirements, so ya'll don't have quite as many dummies as the rest of us, so I'm guessing it's easier to trust people to take care of maintaining things without as much supervision. I'm retired Army, and I cringe at the thought of some of our guys attempting these repairs on their own.

[@JRRob3wn]

@@KRoc We did pretty decent work, but what was really frustrating was being operational and having to do all this extra work on busy weekends in between SAR cases / boardings and sometimes being up all night on these cases. Meanwhile the people that are actually responsible for building maintenance literally never show their faces at all, don’t answer the phone or respond to emails, complaints to higher are ignored. On top of this, you are continuously screwed over by admin and supply and have to do their jobs as well. If you complain about any of this you are the problem. As an XPO, I raised hell with every level of the chain of command for years and literally nothing improved. Then they wonder why retention is a problem. I retired last year and everybody I know is getting out exactly at 20.

[@JRRob3wn]

@@darktemplardelta268 Yep, when I was an XPO we spent tens of thousands annually at Home Depot.

[@jamesmurray4193]

Not the point of this , when you have contractors sitting around and doing nothing while getting payed twenty times more than a service member who now has to do there job . There's issues and questions that need to be asked .

[@TheWhoFan4]

I went and bought a dehumidifier for my barracks room (navy). Never had a problem with mold. If they issued every room a dehumidifier, they wouldn't have this problem.

[@KensCounselingCouch]

Stop being unreasonable! Then the company that manages the housing won't make as much profit!

[@tiredman99]

Or if they just did proper ventilation it wouldn't be a problem

[@Baglimit-b5e]

We had those dehumidifiers . But we often leave for weeks on end doing field work. With 90-degree days plus the humidity that shit fills up in hours. We would come back to fur coats of mold on stuff.

[@jamesb2291]

They have those at Langley Air Force Base around 2004, didn't stop the mold.

[@samwister6373]

I was a (1371) Combat Engineer (87-91) mostly at Camp Lejeune and yes I drank and showered in the water. If we where allowed to "fix" our barracks it would have been epic. Hardwood floors in some rooms and linoleum in others. Then the paint jobs and drop ceilings (with disco balls) would have driven command crazier

[@zancrus9629]

lol I lived there in 1992-1993 in base housing with my family as a kid. I remember moving in and my parents recording with a camcorder the damage inside. Front door had a hole in the wall where the doorknob went. Wooden floors absolutely destroyed with scratches. Back porch screens had holes everywhere. Those were just the things that I remember since I was in 4th grade when we moved in. I'm 99% sure that they fixed everything on their own since I don't remember anyone coming in to even look at the damage.

[@fmvilla29]

It was still like that when I was there in 03-06

[@RealTubaBoy]

My job operates like this for a few people. It's such a cluster. Imagining a military full of mostly inexperienced kids (Marines no less) doing shit they weren't trained for to address sweeping health concerns is comforting to say the least

[@KimboKG14]

5:00 as an electrician this is what I was thinking about. some crafting does require a solid understanding of the physics the craft is based on. there are a lot of redundant safety mechanisms for a reason!

[@CorwinDJones]

Avionics, fire control and electrical on H-1 helicopters made me the electrician at the barracks. Luckily I had some prior service experience because nothing was ever labeled correctly. Live-dead-live was my friend. 😂

[@KimboKG14]

​@@CorwinDJones you propably made peace with your god more often than the average soldier. I kinda understand how some soldiers can't go back to the illusion of a safe living after facing death so often.

[@thornfalk]

Thank you for always being our voice big drill. Your shit helped make my infantry contract bearable, and now that I'm out I can finally support the creators who helped keep me sane.

[@AngryCops]

I'm glad you dig the shenanigans. I didn't know you could toss me $ in the comments. I feel like a Stripper... and I like it

[@thornfalk]

@@AngryCops 🤌 💰💰💰

[@paddyleather5434]

I remember talking to a Vietnam era Marine whose father and grandfather had been Marines . He told me his grandfather had to hike his own rack from place to place to have something to sleep on . Some things never change

[@willanderson6861]

You had me a kegerator. No bullshit, as a young enlisted soldier I put a kegerator in the front closet of my barracks room. Only problem was it was about 1.5 inches too big to shut the door. My solution: bought a new door, sawed off the bottom, and replaced the existing door, attaching it to the top two hinges and included a hasp to secure the top, which has the tap, along with whatever liquor bottles. Stored the original door to put back for when I'd move out of that room. Company Commander conducted a barracks inspection and I just left the kegerator installed. Nowhere else to put it. After explaining my logic, and my plan to leave things in their original state upon departure, the CO told me it was awesome.

[@josephholson8018]

I don't comment often, but this involves what I do for a living. I remodel apartments. KZbin is full of 5 ways to fix any given problem if you don't know how. With one Crack house in the books and the 2nd nearly done, some Angry Drill Sargent how to for basic stuff sounds like a logical step forward. Love the channel and content.

[@judgegriff8041]

"Oh so they are fixing it themselves now? Can we still bill them for the repairs right?" - Belfour Beatty 2024

[@twinphalanx4465]

If anything it sounds like really good seabees training, whenever a housing need repaired just call up the trainees

[@camostrike4395]

That genuinely sounds like a good thing to do

[@twinphalanx4465]

@@camostrike4395 it would just be cross training, might even build some comraudery between the units/companys, the seabees need the training anyway, why not just train em practically, and itll keep the military machine relatively self sufficient as even the walls are known inside and out

[@cameronhimes8670]

Lowest bidder. Contractors aren't held to hiring competent personnel then wrap that with an absurd amount of red tape

[@tetedur377]

Yeah, they're only required to bid on certain key positions, and very often, they use (with or without permission) the resumes of current contractor personnel, regardless of whether or not those personnel will take employment with the potential winner of the bid. Sometimes they even use personnel who are nowhere near the contract, or even the general vicinity. I dealt with services contracts for Program Offices for major weapons systems, but the general contracting principles are basically the same. All based on buying "stuff," not people. If you use a big enough crowbar, you can make it fit. Sort of.

[@LineupLARRY-69]

Lol, this is crazy. I was there when another Marine posted on Reddit the horrible conditions. We spent weeks fixing up the facilities and dealing with 1, 2, and 3-star generals inspecting the living areas. Great time, rah!

[@The_Assassin_of_The_Gray]

Yes . . . cuz this is the *_ENLISTED MAN'S_* responsibility

[@adarkwind4712]

"Fix it yourself" Sure sounded like they said burn it down to me boys.

[@michaelscott6022]

I mean, I'm all for the soldiers fixing it themselves (providing someone with actual construction knowledge is supervising). The Roman legionaries doubled as civil engineering corps. The soldiers know what's wrong, they are motivated to fix it, it keeps them occupied and out of trouble, builds teamwork, teaches them valuable trade skills, and pisses off the higher-ups and corpos who were paid to allow this issue to grow out of control. I see this as an absolute win!

[@dustyking8851]

Yes, but the aqueducts & Roman highways still exist, their level of construction seems to have sunk with Atlantis.

[@drd675]

Of course, but they better be supplied fully and should not be punished for mistakes since they have no training for these repairs.

[@michaelscott6022]

@@drd675 *ABSO-F@CKING-LUTELY!!* I just quit a job for a _multitude_ of reasons, among which were: no on-the-job training/proper operations, and being told off for trying to find fixes for things that was either outright impossible, the _exact opposite_ of what I had been told before, never informed of _in the first place,_ or usually all three at the same time. Never mind being paid less than minimum wage because wages are calculated _BEFORE_ TAXES ARE APPLIED WHO'S READY TO RIOT

[@dreadlindwyrm]

@@dustyking8851 A lot of Roman construction didn't make it. We're getting some survivor bias here when looking at the stuff that did. :D

[@alaricvis09]

How many Roman soldiers were wiring in electrical panels?

[@Joe-sh2tf]

Semper Fi! Looks like Nothing's changed in 40 the years that I've been out of the Marines. It is what it is.👍🇺🇸

[@ChristopherStaton-e5l]

My favorite was change of command inventory when we would inventory the instruction manuals including the ones in in Spanish, German, Mandarin ect. For tools that were still in the box.

[@michaelpheney2993]

I love the color changing wall frosting.

[@neekniggit3606]

8 years before Angry went to basic training I was the R&U person for my Battalion. This involved repairing, painting and even building most barracks related things. The only downside was Top let a bunch of my peers into my tools and equipment that I was signed for and they walked off with half of it while I was on 30 days leave. Yes there was a statement of charges! Thanks Top!

[@philipsmith7772]

This has been happening for yrs. I was stationed at an airforce base back in 85, and we had condemned barracks that we had to get back into service. And yes as a Marine

[@jonathanenglish9146]

We used the tub in our barracks room to wash our TA50 and also filled it with ice and beer on the weekend.

[@craigshred13]

Bro this has been the Marine Corp’s way of fixing things for ever it’s just now approved and tooling provided

[@Jaytube106]

Every Marine ordered to clean/fix their own barracks should go to their congressional rep about this.

[@spartanhawk7637]

That’ll just get gridlocked whenever said rep manages to shove something a lobbyist group wanted into the bill. It’s honestly probably easier to go full malicious compliance on this one. Ordered to paint the barracks? Get annoyingly picky about the exact shade.

[@V.B.Squire]

There's nothing wrong with servicemen fixing their own accommodation the real problem is the contractors getting paid for not doing their job.

[@davidr1676]

They should have fixed their barracks at Ft. Sill when they left the older buildings and moved into the then new "starships" back in the 89-90 time frame. My MOS school barracks were put into those older buildings where a mix of wear and tear and punched or kicked holes and plumbing was sad to see. Probably all leveled by now. Even the WW2 era barracks looked to be in better condition, though I don't remember If anyone lived in them anymore or if they were in the Gulf by then. Soooo long ago and I'd rather have lived in a log cabin than those crusty little buildings

[@YuckyMama]

My concern is that during barracks inspections, people are going to get in trouble because they didn’t get the repairs made. This is phrased as “if you don’t want to wait”, but my money has this turning into “no excuses, fix it yourself or you have CQ/NJP/BS”

[@SgtRudySmith31bRet]

This one hits home😂😂 After living in condemned barracks and working in BN hq with asbestos. This is great and i see no possible way this can go wrong😂

[@Cowboycomando54]

6:08 It is known fact on my ship that the supply department on my ship is one of the laziest on the entire ship. Trying to get parts is a hassle and the will find any reason they can to deny giving you hazmat (even though the hazmat you need isn't even hazardous), even if all the paperwork is good and all requirements are met. I can only imagine how much of a bureaucratic nightmare it will be to get spackle and paint from barracks supply.

[@willwolf8436]

Yeah I'm a Marine that was supply and tried working with my naval counterparts and man those dudes were lazy. They would give my ass attitude when I wanted access to storage areas that had our stuff in it.

[@adamsims3116]

As a Supply Sgt I can 100% attest to the hording equipment. But I always ordered more to be used

[@curtiscosta3306]

As a Marine O3, I can tell you that we were really only good at destroying things and not fixing them! Hahahaha Semper Gumby

[@saybrowt]

I have no idea whether Q3 means you are in command or anything, but anyway: Then break it all the way down, so the contractors *have* to come and build new shit

[@curtiscosta3306]

@@saybrowt well if you don’t know what it is, maybe you shouldn’t comment

[@saybrowt]

@@curtiscosta3306 I dont see how rank/pay scale has any relevance to this

[@curtiscosta3306]

@@saybrowt O3 is the MOS indicator for infantry Marines!

[@pntbll4me]

I find it amazing that things have degraded this much. I was in the Army from 87-93 and since my MOS didn't have a job in garrison, we all took the on-base housing course in repair in the barracks. While I didn't use it at my first duty station, I did use it at my second, where I did simple repairs, ordered and picked up supplies from the on post warehouse and also put in work order tickets for things that were beyond my scope of work or ability, then waked the repair technician through what I had already done and made sure the repair was done.

[@Zhoth91]

The marines will probably just repaint the walls with crayons, if they don’t eat them first

[@matthewb8229]

Was considering posting something of the same idea, but alas, I was beaten to the punch.

[@Joe-sh2tf]

Eat grape crayons all day! Baby!!!🇺🇸👍😝

[@cannedanchovies]

@@Joe-sh2tfmacaroni and cheese is the superior flavor of crayon

[@erichaynie2986]

I prefer the strawberry crayons myself.

[@bradh208]

Hands down the blue one is best

[@andreimordovskoi9192]

We did that shit in 99-03, they called it post-deployment 'Camp Assistance Program' where you got to learn things like carpentry, drywalling and plumbing. For us grunts this was actually a pretty skate 9-5 for a few months. Even got to build an officer's bar behind the PX (that we were not allowed into after completion). I remember the civilian contractor who acted as the shop foreman always pouring Early Times into his coffee in the morning..

[@hardcharging]

Dude you should've taken a leaf from Capt. Hawkeye from MASH on the officers bar. Promote yourself to Corporal Captain! When the questions happen you validate it by comparing it to Sergeant Major!

[@michaelnaretto3409]

I replaced a lightbulb in an outside stairwell to our barracks. They were icy and slippery, and I didn't want someone to accidentally slip and tumble down the stairs. Safety first! Anyway, the base contractor in charge of that sort of thing got wind of what I did, ratted me out to my commander who promptly ordered me to remove the lightbulb. I explained the safety thing, he understood but the contractor was really twisted so I removed the bulb and out in a work order. 6 months later when I left the base, that lightbulb still had not been replaced.

[@TeufelHunden927]

This is happening in Yuma, too. They’re also having us raise money to buy our own stove… to replace the one they took away from us a few years ago.

[@rodneycrosslin4405]

We were doing this at Camp Pendleton in the late 90s...I remember painting my room door and window after our company commander want the barracks a different color.

[@cplusmcretired]

I'm sure every boot is going to make quality repairs too, they should last at least a week or so.

[@SpookEOD]

Had to sort out black mold in my barracks room myself and then a few years later in a different room I had to sort out an ant infestation and then was threatened to be billed for when fluorescent light diffusers get broken when we had to clean them for inspections and they banned us from cleaning the diffusers. Clearly the Sgt Maj was more than happy to accept this when during an inspection there was still dead bugs in the diffusers 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔.

[@1johnmthompson]

I remember being told that we could not use self help in the barracks. That it was only for on base housing. I also remember purchasing paint, floor wax, brasso and other things to maintain my barracks. I also remember forced cup and flower fund and other such things. It goes in cycles.

[@linus11vf1j]

I would love to see what masterpieces the marines create if they can get their hands on tooks and DIY together as a unit.

[@CaptainMurika]

As the Field Officer of the Day at Fort Carson, they required you to visit rando neighborhoods and poll the dependents for their issues. First time, I took the notes and put them in at the end of shift and was forced to spend extra time to make sure the work orders went through. I did because I thought it could (maybe) help. Then a year later, doing it again- same exact comments from the dependents- no one available, the HVAC guy had no HVAC experience, moved to another house to avoid fixing, etc. Always the same. At Fort Riley, I had to sign something to not lick the walls because the Bachelor Officer's Quarters had lead paint... It did taste good, though.

[@justleft2692]

While I was a Corporal in 29 Palms I was on very good terms with everyone. So naturally I had my own barracks room that was never inspected or looked at, to be honest a majority of the people didn't know I lived there. Towards the end of my enlistment I had a full size fridge stocked with meat, cheese, booze and energy drinks. A queen size bed, enough alcohol to stock a bar, a whole cooking station including a spice rack, hot plate, coffee machine, blender and a toaster. I also had a security camera hooked up so I could keep an eye on it 24/7. At one point one of my old Gunny's came over to update his PlayStation as the place he was staying at had very crappy wifi. He was dumbstruck when he saw the bachelor pad

[@ProthoPectore]

back in 2000 i was getting booted out navy basic and during outprocessing a dude threw up in a sink. clogged the sink drain up completely. a week or two went by and no one did anything about the puke in the sink. so one day i offered to clean out the drain trap. asked for adjustable pliers, a bucket, a bottle of lysol (for the stink), and a screw driver in case i had to dislodge a chunk. a day went by and one of the supervising petty officers brought me the tools. took me 10 minutes to unclog the drain. and this was 24 years ago. couldn't imagine how bad things are now.

[@laurieo877]

I like the idea of teaching young people how to fix things. Everyone should b taught to fix problems in their homes.

[@JuanReyes-lx8kb]

Truer words have never been spoken on the equipment hoarding even in the guard.

[@Milkman3572000]

In the early 90s.. All the barracks I stayed at were fairly nice. E-3s and below were used to clean them.

[@Ron_EZ]

AC, Francis E Warren AFB, had a housing area dubbed "Flintstone Village" they were homes with thick concrete walls & the residents had to "wipe down" the walls every so often with bleach water to kill the mold growing out of the walls. Since it was sub-standard housing, they were demolished by the time I got there in '02!

[@troyhuss9525]

Make sure the Contractors are defunded!!.

[@maiqtheliar789]

You just know they will charge the service member if they fuck up the repairs as well. I don't recall ever being trained to patch drywall or remove black mold in basic or AIT. Must have been at sick call that day. Granted I know how to patch dry wall but I'm also self taught and you best believe I fucked it up a few times learning how to do it. But it was MY OWN home I learned it with. So if it looks messed up no one is going to try to charge me my whole pay check over it either.

[@spartanhawk7637]

Asking a military corps famous for jury rigging anything imaginable through the power of eating crayons dipped in paste and paint thinner to repair their own barracks? This won’t backfire at all, I can only see this ending well.

[@louthinator]

I was a royal engineer for the UK military... invite a squad of ours around.. it won't look pretty, but it'll run like a dream.

[@Salidin111]

P.T Belt has a new meaning.

[@Existntlangst]

Oh, a discipline problem. Looks like the Marines need to exercise self discipline to fix the barracks

[@smokeyjazz5506]

When I was stationed at Robins AFB back in the late 80's, which was a AFLC Base (Air Force Logistic Command). Their main job was depot repair for F-15's and cargo aircraft. There was two F-15's with similar damage and the leadership decided to give one to the military maintainers and one to civilian maintainers. Both teams were to budget and timeline repairs and were then given the go ahead to repair their aircraft. The military came in under budget and before the timeline stated. The civilians were over budget and late for delivery. The civilian union threw a $hit fit and afterwards the military was placed in a support role for repairs. To us AFLC translated to Another F-ing Lazy Civilian.

[@tylerharris2867]

I was on Pendleton from 2012-2016. My barracks room had mold destroy the bathroom ceiling above the toilet and it fell down while my roommate was taking a shit. They didn’t fix it till a year and a half later when we did an investigation with the Lean Six Sigma team to find out why shit wasn’t getting fixed. Turned out the contractors weren’t listing the barracks as a priority in their computer systems. It would appear they still aren’t

[@truckcaptainstumpy1978]

@AngryCops - first Gulf, 90s, USAF Firefighter: we took a-frame ladders and tarps and built an above ground portable pool. We used a roof ladder wrapped with a tarp on a P-19 as a water slide. We lined the inside of the pool with old high-pressure hose we poked holes in and hooked it to a SCBA tank for a jacuzzi effect. When it got cold, we stole a de-icer and filled it with hot water. We also taught others how to do it as the ability to have a portable drafting source was a good idea. Nobody, and I mean *NOBODY* out shams a bored firefighter. 🤣

[@Nicholas-jy4df]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Everybody gets paid this way, and the Marines get treated like shit still. Great.

[@OldManSurvival]

😂They MUST wear the Protective Belt when doing ANY work in the barracks!😂

[@geodkyt]

Summer 1989, I was a PFC in the USAR home stationed on Fort Story, and that year was a "school year" where *everyone* in the unit was being sent to a school (to clear a backlog, after years of denying troops necessary schools so they could support the unit AT without spending extra money). Problem - they didnt want to use our Airborne or Air Assault slots on a mere PFC (they all went to senior NCOs at the brigade HHC and division HHC level), so there was a small group of us who did a "home station AT". What was our task (note, all 11B here)? Renovating buildings the Navy wasnt using anymore that qere being turned over to us to use as brigade HHC buildings. Oh, the asbestos we found, the shitty carpeting jobs and repair jobs we did... Later on, in DS School, us candidates got drafted for general labor, and AGAIN got to deal with that wonder sight of asbestos fibers floating in the sun, as we were ripping out old AC units. What was our PPE? "Don't breath in the duat." 😂

[@Max_R_MaMint]

"We have determined that your living conditions are not service-related."

[@scottjackson1636]

Maybe if a bunch of Marines found the CEOs of those companies, and invited them out for a drink, and discussed the problem in a civil and non threatening way they would see that the problem needs to be fixed and also that curbs are super dangerous.

[@justincase2291]

If this was a Seabee barrack the maintenance would already be done with supplies stolen from Marines! 🤣🤣

[@DetectiveJones]

Slightly unrelated, but this has always been one of those odd questions I've wondered. Who cleans the like SUPER secret bases? Like, there's labs, storage rooms, conference areas, all that house highly important information or materials, and somebody has to clean them right? All I can think about, is there being a janitor out there with some WILD access levels. Granted, it could be something like this where general staff has to clean it, but that just raises more questions. Can you imagine knowing all this crazy information, or being high enough rank to be employed at these facilities...And you're stuck cleaning toilets? Somebody has to do it right? But if it's not general staff, how do they hire? "Oh, I see you've been a janitor for 50+ years...Wanna work at a bunker nobody has heard of?" Obviously that's not how they do it, but I still don't know how they do. Actually, I have more questions after the first couple seconds of this video. Who paints the facilities? Who's bringing in furniture? When something breaks, sure you have some people from a bunch of different fields to fix it, but then again like before can you imagine being some crazy rocket engineer, but then you gotta fix some specific, special light bulb? Paint has to eventually need retouching, so somebody has to do that. Think of your general day to day cleaning or maintenance around the house or place of work, then just think about the fact somebody has to do all that in some top secret area.

[@crakkbone]

Immigrants.

[@MegaWildweasel]

back in the dark ages (82-85) in our secure fac we (all MOS) did the cleaning in your area. the non-secure hallways where done by local contractors with red badges supervised by GI's. (this was Field Station Berlin )

[@AC-zy9tz]

Having worked in a classified space, we usually stop work, remove anything physical that is classified, and put escorts with the contractors doing painting, plumbing, carpet work, etc. There's nothing they could see or get their hands on, but they get escorts anyway. As to cleaning, the military members usually clean their own spaces while the non military agencies have janitors with access to the building and the appropriate clearances, but don't have acess to any system or actual intelligence/classified information. Compartmentalization is a real thing. Just because you have a top secret clearance, does not mean you get to know what is going on. They choose to "read you into the program" or not , no matter your clearance.

[@2012sonora]

I worked for a unit that had a rather high level SCIF. We had a standard janitorial contract to take out the trash and vacuum the hallways. We'd stop work and turn on the notification lights while they were in there. Cleaning the actual desks etc was the responsibility of the individual unit members. Remodels are somewhat more difficult. You can put the SCIF into a certain suspended status (ie register it with the NSA and service branch that you aren't actively processing classified information) but you still have to have escorts on site watching everything everyone does. Certain things still require clearances, and there are specialized contractors for that sort of work. But a lot of the tasks, like removing the furniture and disposing of all classified information, we handled ourselves. Every single thing that left the building had to be inspected by our security manager. In short, it's a PITA but the military does have set procedures for this.

[@jclinthicum3058]

Just talked with my nephew a couple weeks ago about hanging pictures, lol. Good shit Brother

[@ephemeric8937]

I wish I had the opportunity to fix my own room. We had the window missing from our room for over a year. I put in almost a dozen service requests, but the barracks manage kept changing so the paperwork kept getting lost. I ended up walking down to 1st deck and nabbing somebody else's window that was left unsecured. I took it back to 4th deck and the acquired window didn't fit and was a different type entirely. So instead of returning it and risk being spotted, I just tossed it during field day, further fueling the cycle of Marines just tryna get their shit back. Never change marine corps