Posted on Aug 16, 2018
Exclusive: Toxic lead threatens military families - Reuters TV
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I guess they should have enlisted in the Air Force. Sorry, but that's gallows humor, an attempt to look away from a tragedies. The state of housing at Fort Benning is one tragedy. The possibility that it exists at others is another tragedy. The fact that I most likely won't see an main stream media picking up this story is the third tragedy.
Exclusive: Toxic lead threatens military families - Reuters TV
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MSG Frederick Otero
Hazmat clean up is truly expensive but with children at risk an effort needs to be made; lets see how the administration approaches this health problem to those who provide the security of this nation.
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What a bunch of crap. This (lead paint problem in military housing) has been known for many years. Interesting that they just gloss this over in the comment about a 2017 memo. I would bet that the memo mentioned was and is available to those families. It is quite telling that the 1989 housing packet from Fort Bragg has a similar memo and a couple of pamphlets about lead paint AND asbestos.
What the real tragedy is - Is that the housing contractors are not maintaining the quarters to the standard agreed upon in the contracts. Why do I state this - look at the rotting wood and the peeling outside paint. If I remember correctly that this is one of the reasons given for contracting housing to civilian contractors when privatized housing contracts were proposed in 1995-1996, partly due to shortfalls in base housing budget money.
"MHPI addresses two significant problems concerning housing for military-service members and their families: (1) the poor condition of housing owned by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and (2) a shortage of quality affordable private housing. Under the MHPI authorities, DOD works with the private sector to revitalize military family housing through a variety of financial tools-direct loans, loan guarantees, equity investments, conveyance or leasing of land and/or housing/and other facilities."
What the real tragedy is - Is that the housing contractors are not maintaining the quarters to the standard agreed upon in the contracts. Why do I state this - look at the rotting wood and the peeling outside paint. If I remember correctly that this is one of the reasons given for contracting housing to civilian contractors when privatized housing contracts were proposed in 1995-1996, partly due to shortfalls in base housing budget money.
"MHPI addresses two significant problems concerning housing for military-service members and their families: (1) the poor condition of housing owned by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and (2) a shortage of quality affordable private housing. Under the MHPI authorities, DOD works with the private sector to revitalize military family housing through a variety of financial tools-direct loans, loan guarantees, equity investments, conveyance or leasing of land and/or housing/and other facilities."
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