Aside from a billion snakes.
Posted on 05/29/2025 10:17:01 AM PDT by Mariner
Mold painted over, wires dangling and black rusted pipes framing the ceiling were part of everyday reality for Marines, sailors and airmen living in barracks on Guam. The conditions left the Navy’s top admiral in charge of barracks across the service baffled.
Photos of the Palau Hall barracks at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, and comments in an email from a senior Navy official were obtained by the Project on Government Oversight and shared with Task & Purpose.
“It is baffling to discover sailors living in these conditions,” Vice Adm. Scott Gray, the head of Navy Installations Command, wrote in a May 5 email obtained by POGO.
Guam is home to nearly 21,000 U.S. military personnel and their families from three of the services. In 2024, the U.S. began moving Marines who were based in Japan to the Pacific island and opened a new installation earlier this month called Camp Blaz. Before the Marine Corps installation was established, Guam was home to Andersen Air Force Base and Naval Base Guam.
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In all my years serving, I never even heard rumor of such despicable conditions.
It might cause Guam to tip over.
Were these newly built facilities, or a half century old and not properly maintained.
It might cause Guam to tip over.
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I’d bet that idiot is still in congress.
> The conditions left the Navy’s top admiral in charge of barracks across the service baffled. <
That statement is itself baffling. Bull Halsey would have gotten to the bottom of it in about an hour.
DEI, homosexuals, transvestites, and those kinds of things are FAR more important to the military and civilian leadership than standards of care of the troops.
If Pete was a good SECDEF there would be military prosecutions for such a lack of care. Someone will get “fired” at most. Meaning, they will simply be reassigned someplace else.
“It is baffling to discover sailors living in these conditions,” as for the Marines, not a big deal.
Hank Scott, and yes, he is. Safe Dem district forever.
Did you forget a (sarc) tag? Because I remember some pretty shabby BOQs...though not THIS bad
I want to know if the commands are going to be held responsible for it or not. I can understand if they asked for funds and were denied, but otherwise it’s just utter mismanagement and dereliction.
When the island partially tips over, water rushes in.
That’s probably what caused the problems
> The conditions left the Navy’s top admiral in charge of barracks across the service baffled. <
>The barracks are run by the Air Force
When I was there in the late 1970’s it wasn’t too bad. Being a tropical island, things there are more susceptible to water damage, molding, heat, etc.
“If Pete was a good SECDEF there would be military prosecutions for such a lack of care.”
Courts Martial for everyone in the decision loop.
Starting with the Commanding Officer and Executive Officer of every person assigned to live there.
I was there 77-80 and it was a bit of paradise.
Yes, Congresscritter Hank Johnson was re-elected to office in November 2024.
Thanks. Not a bit surprising.
Is the maintenance handled by the Navy or by the locals?
Looking at the story, this appears to deal with old infrastructure that hasn’t been maintained.
They ought to move the senior officers into the barracks and see if that facilitates improvement.
“Is the maintenance handled by the Navy or by the locals?”
See OP.
Aside from a billion snakes.
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