Europe’s inspections reveal no systemic problems at barracks

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Europe’s inspections reveal no systemic problems at barracks
By Seth Robson and Erik Slavin, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Thursday, May 1, 2008

Army officials throughout Europe and the Pacific have spent the last few days inspecting soldiers’ barracks in response to a YouTube video showing dilapidated and unsanitary conditions at barracks in Fort Bragg, N.C.

The order for the inspections came from the Army’s Installation Management Command. While officials in South Korea were completing their inspections of living quarters Wednesday, Army leaders in Europe completed the task by inspecting 21,000 barracks rooms over the weekend.

As a result of the walkthrough in South Korea, one soldier was moved into a different barracks. Europe’s inspections found no systemic problems.

Fallout from the media investigation in February 2007 of substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center quarters already had affected building inspections in South Korea, said public works chief Paul Cramer.

“We started to go away from just having soldiers call in a service order to more of a pro-active approach, where the unit leadership at the (noncommissioned officer) level walked through the barracks to find deficiencies,” Cramer said.


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