The decay of military housing on Guam

 Hotair:

Navy Secretary John Phelan visited Guam earlier this month and was "appalled" after seeing the conditions of an Air Force barracks where junior service members were living, prompting an ongoing Navy-wide inspection of more than 100,000 barracks units, according to a government watchdog and service officials.

Conditions included exposed wires, corroded plumbing and dilapidated walls splattered with paint to cover mold; after Phelan's visit, more than 70 Marines and sailors were moved out of the Palau Hall barracks, a housing facility at Andersen Air Force Base. Another 77 airmen there are "in the process of being relocated" in anticipation of a $53 million renovation scheduled to start later this year, an Air Force spokesperson told Military.com on Friday.

The Project on Government Oversight, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, obtained images of the squalid housing and correspondence sent by the Navy's head of installations, who ordered all regional commands to inspect their barracks by the end of May.
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I spent a few weeks at the hospital in Guam after is was injured in combat in Vietnam.  At that time, the hospital was in good shape, and the Navy nurses were attractive and good at their jobs.  I was eventually transported to the Naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where I underwent a couple of surgeries before being medically discharged from the Marine Corps.  BTW, the nurses on Gaum were wary of many of the Marines, but were nice to me because I was still wearing my wedding ring and was not trying to hustle them.