By Paul Sonne Paul Sonne National security reporter focusing on the U.S. military Email Bio Follow March 7 at 11:52 AM The top uniformed and civilian officials in the Army, Navy and Air Force faced a rare group grilling in the Senate on Thursday over deficiencies in privatized military housing that have subjected service members and their families to hazards including lead paint, mold and vermin.
Gen. David L. Goldfein, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, recounted spending 50 of the last 60 years living in military housing, first as the child of an officer and later as an officer himself, and said he never worried about the safety of his children, infrastructure or the possibility of reprisal if he complained. He said airmen now have those concerns, a situation he described as unacceptable.
More than 55 percent of 16,779 individuals surveyed in a recent study by the Military Family Advisory Network reported a negative or very negative experience with such privatized military housing, citing issues including black mold, lead paint, faulty wiring, poor water quality, pesticides, vermin and insects in their homes.
The service secretaries testified that the system of privatized military housing introduced in the 1990s overall has improved the quality of accommodations and did not recommend taking the facilities out of private hands.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Why the FUCK isn't this interview getting the wall to wall coverage like the R Kelly one? CNN MSNBC NBCNews politico nytimes AP CBSNews Reuters nypost NewYorker NYDailyNews PBS NPR McClatchyDC MSNBCPR CNNPR
How's the Pentagon gonna do that if Trump takes their construction budget money for his stupid, useless, medievel wall?
Why did they allow Obama to destroy the bases in the first place? Those are real actual families.
Service housing has always been a disgrace, and that's where there is service housing, more often it'd the military lining the pockets of borderline slum landlords in the private sector.
Isn’t this where Trump wants to raid funds allocated to military housing for his wall.
Shame on the government. These men and women put their lives on the line daily! IMO let our hero's live in the Pentagon official's homes. Then let said officials go fight! Seems fitting to me. What do you think
That's what any money diverted for the wall should be used on. If Trump is such a military supporter, make sure their homes are livable.
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They won't have money.. We have to build a wall that won't work.
WHAT? The Pentagon has not been making sure military family housing is sufficient? What are they doing with all our tax money? SpeakerPelosi chuckschumer SenSanders RandPaul RoKhanna TulsiGabbard RepJayapal IlhanMN AOC SenWarren Congress Texas Florida Virginia
I hope so. They backed out of a contract with me to fix 700 houses and barracks at cherry point nc right before the shutdown. Negotiations yet to resume...
But first we gotta build a wall or something.
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