[USNBandit]

You are right. Maintenance was contracted out last year. I disagree with Coulter on this. The commanding officer of the hospital has final responsibility for the condition of his facility. If it was in poor repair when he showed up, he should have noted the discrepancies to his superior and then started getting them fixed.

The bigger issue might be a facility that is on the BRAC list that nobody wants to spend money on finding itself filled to capacity with casualties.

The solution is also much simpler than the one DoD came up with. Instead of having a 45 day fact finding period to figure out what the problems are you get one O-5/O-6 medial corps officer, preferably a nurse, put them in charge of fixing the problems and give them the resources to do it. It's not rocket science.

[Shamrock-DW]

Right you may be....but who is in charge of the contractors? My bet it is some 250 pound civiliangovernmentunionshemaleemployee who shrugs and takes another bite out of their doughnut during their everythirtyminutecoffeebreak........

[Loyal Buckeye]

Maintenance was contracted out last year.

Are you talking about janitorial, building maintenance (i.e., repairs) or both?

[Sam Hill]

"You are right. Maintenance was contracted out last year. I disagree with Coulter on this."

Please read my last three previous posts above.