I was an aircraft mech. I don't work with housing but to tell you the truth the worser of the two between BBC and the occupants is the occupants. I have seen a complaint for black mold on the wall about 8 feet from the sink in the neighbor across the street. I went over to look. There was no water in that pantry wall. The occupant had been spraying water from the sink to her plant which sat at the base of the wall and didn't wipe up what didn't hit the plant. My next door neighbor was a pig. I kept getting roaches (northern US we don't have roaches) that came through the wall between the units. I called it in. The next door neighbor (also active duty) was a PIG. Most folks that are in the military have never lived in their "own" homes. They lived at home then maybe college and then the military. They don't know how to take care of their own homes. Many of them don't know they need to replace their own light bulbs. We got lots of training at work, sexual abuse reporting, suicide prevention (which if it worked the numbers would go down) and have all kinds or resources to go to if their is a problem with housing: 1st Shirt, Commander, Supervisor, the Chief, Chaplin, IG, Family Counselors, Hospital Bio, the Housing Liaison or even the media. hell, this is on us more than BBC. Sorry if this hurts anyone "feelings". I'm just tired of the shit. . .
Back when I was stationed at Ft. Riley, I was actually send to a class where I was taught to do minor repairs. Fix holes in the walls. Repair plumbing. Repair windows. And I was expected to be a fix-it guy for my unit. And it worked rather well. Once all the housing went over to private contractors, I guess the fix-it guys went away.
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I was an aircraft mech. I don't work with housing but to tell you the truth the worser of the two between BBC and the occupants is the occupants. I have seen a complaint for black mold on the wall about 8 feet from the sink in the neighbor across the street. I went over to look. There was no water in that pantry wall. The occupant had been spraying water from the sink to her plant which sat at the base of the wall and didn't wipe up what didn't hit the plant. My next door neighbor was a pig. I kept getting roaches (northern US we don't have roaches) that came through the wall between the units. I called it in. The next door neighbor (also active duty) was a PIG. Most folks that are in the military have never lived in their "own" homes. They lived at home then maybe college and then the military. They don't know how to take care of their own homes. Many of them don't know they need to replace their own light bulbs. We got lots of training at work, sexual abuse reporting, suicide prevention (which if it worked the numbers would go down) and have all kinds or resources to go to if their is a problem with housing: 1st Shirt, Commander, Supervisor, the Chief, Chaplin, IG, Family Counselors, Hospital Bio, the Housing Liaison or even the media. hell, this is on us more than BBC. Sorry if this hurts anyone "feelings". I'm just tired of the shit. . .
Back when I was stationed at Ft. Riley, I was actually send to a class where I was taught to do minor repairs. Fix holes in the walls. Repair plumbing. Repair windows. And I was expected to be a fix-it guy for my unit. And it worked rather well. Once all the housing went over to private contractors, I guess the fix-it guys went away.
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