From: Steve Ewing 

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:31:44 -0400, James Adams  wrote:

>> Many of the Army Reserve and National Guard personnel in
"medical hold"
>> at
>> the base are living in steamy cement training barracks that they say are
>> unacceptable for sick and injured soldiers.
>>
>
> After I watched the NBC news item on this I said to my bride that those
> barracks were nicer than most of the ones I lived in while in the
> Marines (1/71-1/73).

Jeff and I seem to be the most recent "graduates" of the US
military here; I know that when I came in in '81 the old-style
rough-and-ready barracks were finally being retired in favor of more,
, comfortable lodgings.  The Air Force, from what I understood,
had already cornered the market in hot tubs and townhouses, so we in the
Navy made do with at least non-leaking roofs and windows, and heads within
the same buildings (even if, in some cases, still communal).  I would not
be surprised to learn that the cinder-block buildings (with at least an
inch of accumulated paint) were still in use in some places, especially in
the south.  They were certainly built to last, if you patched up the wooden
parts now and then.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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