Are we seeing a situation where all the GI's in a given barracks take off on orders, leaving their barracks unoccupied for months (years?) at a time? And in their absence, natural, unchecked corrosion and mold due to humidity rips the place to pieces? That's what came to mind when I saw the photos.
My one reservation is that the "nuked" toilet seat looks like it was vandalized.
If these were their barracks, I suppose they were shut down, and locked up for a year and a half. No AC. So, throw in their age, this is to be expected. Anyways, two Sergeants can't get to Home Depot, get a toilet seat( $20, max ), shower curtain clips($2), a lock set ($20) a putty knife, bushes, bleach and Kilz paint?
The sewage comes from heavy rains, flooding the ground and pressurizing the septic fields and or a broken, blocked one way valve.
In the 80’s I lived at Bragg in ‘Old Division’. Old, wood, open bay WWII barracks. SF hand nice barracks, like these, only we hardly ever lived there. Usually in the worst base, if on base, buildings we could scrounge, or in a CONEX or in a truck or if we were on a usually nature hike, on the ground or slung between a tree. A lot of the mid 30 NCO’s looked 50 and had gray hair.