What's the worst room anyone's ever seen during a room inspection?

Here is a twist to a worst room story: As a First Sergeant (early 90s) at Fort Bragg, I would walk thru my Soldiers barracks everyday day. Not at the same time, not every room, though I would go thru every room at least once a week. On one particular day, it was early afternoon and as I started to head to the barracks, I grabbed the unit commander and said, "Come on, lets go for a walk, talk and check the barracks!" Off we went. Upon entering the lobby (2nd floor), we could hear noises coming from one room, and being an outstanding First Sergeant I immediately recognized and knew those sounds!

Upon entering the room (using my master key) the Soldier and his very nice looking companion suddenly stopped, both jumped out of bed coming to "at ease" (yes naked)!
I slowly backed up blocking the door way before the commander could walk in and said,
"Nice looking room today SPC XXXXXX, carry on!" Gave them a nice hand salute as I backed out before the Commander had the chance to come in.

We continued on with the walk thru with no more surprises.

The good part to the story was that without having to say a word to that Soldier, he "like overnight", turned around from being a marginal performer to being an outstanding young trooper who went on to become Soldier of the Month, Quarter, and Promoted to Sergeant within 12 months ...............................and went on to become a Brigade CSM, retiring several years ago!

I did attend his retirement, and in case anyone is still wondering about the young lady, they have now been married soon to be 20 years.

I don't know about the worst room, but I always remember the things that people "leave out" in the open. I've seen some weird stuff. By far the most gutsy/funny one I have seen was a Soldier who left their "bedroom implements" in an open drawer...many of them of all shapes and sizes. Thank the Lord it was my 1SG who was inspecting and not I. It was pretty funny though. This was in the days when there weren't any camera phones though...so no evidence was captured.

OK, not an inspection story, but this is what happened to me in family housing. My upstairs E-5 neighbor had a water hose going up to his house in the dead of winter at Fort Drum. It hada foot of ice around it. At night we would have the chandelier shoke violently and heard saws. I kid you not, the man was slaughtering pigs in the kitchen and butchering the meat himself to save money. His reason...."I worked in a slaughterhouse as a civilian." You can't make this stuff up.

I was called into my commanders office with my PLT SGT and asked when the last time anyone was at PFC ---------'s house to check it, the response was never as we made it policy to leave our soldiers alone during their down time. Agreeing it was good practice the commander mentioned to us that we may want to swing by because his landlord had just brought a notice of eviction by for this PFC. Alarmed we both jumped into my POV and made our way out to his house.What we found...unreal !!! I do not know how they made it in and out of the house as garbage bags were piles at least hip high with rips and spilt trash EVERY WHERE !!!! when we knocked the young man refused to let us in saying it was his house and we had no right to invade with out a warrant???? What ensued is a massive ass chewing followed by Mp's having to show up and a lengthy discussion with him while we literally fought our way past mountain upon mountain of stinking trash that had just been tossed to the side for months????? The worst part is they had infants crawling through this mess. Needless to say the children were removed, she was sent home and he was reduced to a PVT and eventually received a BCD.

My room was always super-clean. Matter of fact, the base commander was made aware of how awesome my room was so he and the entire staff at HQ building came by to see for themselves....ya, I'm pretty proud of that.

So there I was, a new SSG (very young and motivated Platoon Sergeant) at Fort Hood, TX, eager to train my platoon and prepare them for whatever mission would lie ahead. So, I go through the ARTEP manual and brief the PL that I want to add "Health & Welfare Inspection" to the training schedule as a SGT's Time Training task....we add it, and throw the training schedule on the board in the platoon room....you all know the board, the board that nobody looks at.....well, six weeks later we call an alert and start off in the barracks, followed by our off post bubbas. Just outside the Rancier gate (I swear 15 people just squinted and shook their head no!) one of my Soldiers rented a shotgun home. It was disgusting and looked like an episode of hoarders, except his collectibles was garbage - like old pizza boxes/take out Chinese food, McD's and BK bags, dishes were re-bought instead of washed! The smell was disgusting. I moved his rump into the barracks while we (his entire squad assisted) got his place cleaned out. Mouse and rat feces were everywhere, wasp nests and there was even a dead bird (looked like it was a small crow or something)....by far the worst place I'd inspected.

How much of a mess are we talking??? ankle deep? Knee deep? minimum clutter??? Light clutter???How long has it been in this state and how long does he have before actually leaving. My soldiers had rooms that were trashed through the weekend but were squared away come 1st call Monday morning.

Worst room was my good buddy's room. It got put in a PowerPoint deck and sent out to what seemed like every unit known to man.

I inspected a Soldier room prior to a period of leave. Her room was fine, but the common areas were terrible. The laundry rooms were a complete fire hazard, never cleaned, never inspected. Actually just nasty. I had her moved to a different building upon her return from leave. And ensure the CSM was made aware of the conditions all Soldiers were subjecting themselves too.

At LRAFB My roommates locker smelled so bad that you could smell it from inside the room in that locker... He got busted for that.