Posted on 09/29/2017 8:07:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
I’m wondering if the base personnel are the ones that take care of these things, or if it’s contracted out.
When I lived at Camp Pendleton as a child in the early 60’s it was always a dump. I remember huge cockroaches running along the walls of my bedroom.
I’d be shocked if it wasn’t contracted out.
Whose trying to kill Marines in this country? No inspection since BO became president?
Who’s
I’d be shocked if they called up some of the Navy’s HT guys to come take care of it.
We affectionately called them, “Turdchasers,” on my ship.
Why does a local reservoir fall under EPA jurisdiction? Is EPA inspecting every small reservoir and tank in the entire US? Don't county health departments do this?
That aside, at least this seems like something useful for the EPA to do rather than 90% of their crap.
Lastly, I'm no expert on water supplies, but I think animals drink water and amphibians live in water. Is it any surprise to find them near or in water? Do we expect all reservoirs and tanks to be completely free of all wildlife? How do you prevent wildlife from dying in your reservoirs and tanks? Shouldn't filters and chemical treatments easily deal with this? FR Water Experts chime in!
What about the three foot cockroach the OOD had to shoot at the Geiger chow hall. It is stuffed and on display at HQ mainside if you want to see it.
Nearly everything is contract now.
Last time I was on a military base, I saw exactly zero military personnel doing any maintenance, ore even manning the front gate.
That really needs to change, and the military needs to take back dire3ct control of their property and assets, not just supervise the contraction out of all of it.
On board ship, don’t they carry some contractors there as well? I haven’t had the pleasure of being on a gray boat since the mid 80s.
I wondered that myself. My guess is that the only agency with authority to inspect the military water supply is the EPA. Get NCIS!
In the mid 90’s, we only had contractors working on my ship when we were in port. Large scale stuff like rebuilding bulkheads and upgrades. They were done and gone by the time we went underway.
Whats that rat doing in my water tank??
Looks like the backstroke, sir.
If a water source serves more than x number of households, it falls under the EPA. (If memory serves, been a long time since I took that class)
I am a civilian employee working on a military base. The Army in particular hires civilians or contracts out as much work as possible for a very specific reason. Their numbers are limited by congress, if they can hire a civilian to do a non-combat job, that lets them fill that slot with a rifle rather than a broom.
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