Fleet Marine Life #131 – The Projects
When I was leaving Camp Pendleton, I saw a new barracks being built across the street. There was a sign in front of that area that listed a bunch of details. On it was a picture of what appeared to be a model of a Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Under that was, “Cost : 124 Million.” And these barracks never get completed. If they do get completed, it certainly won’t be on your enlistment!
Meanwhile, our barracks would be rotting itself to hell.
Can’t the bureaucrats just split that money among the current barracks that are falling apart instead of having Marines spend their own money fixing shit that they don’t need to be fixing? My neighbor’s ceiling collapsed because the guy above him had his toilet explode and flood his floor. During that month, everyone’s toilet was exploding.
In Okinawa, my entire company was moved to another barracks next door. Holy shit, that barracks was so fucking disgusting. There was mold everywhere. I mean, that shit would be growing on the ceiling, the floor, the walls, in your refrigerator, in the bathtub, I mean everywhere. One of my Marines thought he had a dead guy in his tub. It was a hard-fought battle, but in the end, we won against the mold. If you see mold, kill it with bleach before it fucks your shit up.
The Most Ghetto Barracks Award goes to:
At war with mold since 1775.
Come on. More comics.
Sure. Real soon.
You’re supposed to be training and killing, not hanging around the barracks. STFU.
lol I said the same thing on field day! They told me to stfu vicious cycle huh?
General, you are a tool. Not everyone lives in the field and gets to go on deployment all the time, don’t be an ignorant fuck. I just need you to STFU.
I was the squadron’s Logistics Officer when I was in Okinawa; and thus in charge of the squadron’s buildings and grounds. The A/C in the barracks was totally inadequate and broke all the time, failing to dehumidify the air. I fought for six months straight to get it fixed to the point where at least mold wouldn’t develop overnight. In the end, I finally got Base Property to issue dehumidifiers to all the Marines for their rooms. It would have been cheaper and more effective to revamp the existing HVAC system; but no… I guess that would have been too easy. Sorry Devils…. did my best for you.
Every barracks that I would go to would blast the central AC in the winter and then be broken in the summer.
My day… has been made.
Damn mold spores in the air. I tells ya.