No hot water, A/C or doors with locks for junior troops forced to live in hellish Walter Reed base b

[mountaineer]

No hot water, A/C or doors with locks for junior troops forced to live in hellish Walter Reed base barracks
By Geoff Ziezulewicz and James R. Webb
 Feb 4, 07:17 PM

Hundreds of junior-enlisted sailors and soldiers have gone for years without hot water in their barrack rooms aboard the Maryland Navy base that is home to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Others have been left to broil in barracks with broken air conditioning during humid mid-Atlantic summers, or been assigned rooms without working fridges, thermostats or even locking doors, according to sailors who spoke with Navy Times and who voiced concerns to base leadership during a townhall meeting Thursday.

During that meeting, Naval Support Activity Bethesda’s commanding officer, Capt. Scott Switzer, encouraged affected troops to keep submitting “trouble tickets” for issues like hot water.

But he also admitted that those trouble tickets had been improperly handled. ...

“They call Walter Reed the ‘corpsman killer,’” a corpsman noted. “You come home after 10 to 12 hours and you can’t take a shower after working in a hospital with constant germs, it doesn’t feel like you’re getting clean, and we’re in a pandemic.” ...

Navy Times

[mountaineer]

Paul Gosar
@DrPaulGosar
For about a year the soldiers at Walter Reed hospital stationed there have not had running hot water or working AC.  While the gay obsessed  Milley focuses on military drag shows and purging actual warriors, his soldiers live in 3rd world conditions.
12:56 PM · Feb 5, 2022·

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Tom Sauer Flag of United States Anchor Bomb
@thomasbsauer
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Feb 5
First hand account from the Sailor who made the original post on Reddit:

12:38 PM · Feb 5, 2022

[rangerrebew]

 
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
 Feb 7, 11:43 AM
The Navy has moved more than 350 troops — who had been living without hot water in barracks aboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda, Maryland, for years — into hotels following a Navy Times investigation last week. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Navy leadership is moving more than 350 service members out of barracks that had been without hot water for years aboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda, the Maryland base that houses Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

The movement of the young enlisted troops living in Comfort and Sanctuary halls began Saturday and followed a Navy Times investigation Friday that revealed how some junior sailors and soldiers had been living without hot water and other basic amenities in those buildings for years.

“I already work super-long hours in a high-demand clinic with a huge patient volume,” one affected Navy corpsman told Navy Times last week. “We’ve been short-staffed for a long time and there’s no telework for us. It sucks to have to grit your teeth through a cold shower and go back to the grind.”

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/02/07/young-sailors-and-soldiers-are-moved-out-of-hot-water-less-walter-reed-base-barracks/

[rangerrebew]

For a service that lives on the water, the Navy seems to have more than it's fair share of problems with it.  It wasn't all that uncommon to be taking a shower and the water change to steam without notice.  It was quite common to have oil slicks with our coffee as the evaporator intake was aft of bilge discharge.  We once got so low on fresh water we had to take showers on the flight with water taken from the ocean.  So refreshing.  They've got water problems in Hawaii.  And so it goes in the Navy.

[txradioguy]

I'm waiting for the outrage from the media and the left over this in the same manner they raised hell when this happened back in 2007.

[rangerrebew]

There must not have been people of color in those barracks or the media would have savagely attacked it as racist.

[EdinVA]

There must not have been people of color in those barracks or the media would have savagely attacked it as racist.

I think that is on the schedule sometime in the next two weeks..