WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2005 – Fifty servicemembers applied several hours’ worth of old-fashioned elbow grease Aug. 31 to make a building undergoing renovations suitable for nearly 400 military retirees displaced from Gulfport, Miss., by Hurricane Katrina. Looking around at a bunch of chairs, tables, magazine racks, mops, mop buckets, brooms and trash in the large hallway in the Pipes Building at the Armed Forces Retirement Home here, a frustrated Air Force sergeant bellowed out, “What do you want us to do with all this stuff?” to Air Force Master Sgt. Terry Rawlins. “Just make it look nice and clean, so...