Ok well I used to be stationed at Ft. Stewart. The place they are talking about is the National Guard area. It is at the end of the post and are very basic, almost summer camp/camp ground style barracks that the National guard has used for their 2 week summer training for decades. I think these guys are having to stay there because there is no other space for them on the perminent party side of things as that stays full of regular Army folks who are stationed at Ft. Stewart. So the National Guard area is really intended for only short term occupation.
Reguarding the Doctor issue I have no clue unless they are just seriously short handed. Like I said the National Guard area usually only has folks in it for a few weeks during the summer. So it's possible that they don't have the people to accomidate what is basically a whole another Army post.
But I'd say that since Ft. Stewart it's self is an entirely seperate intaty from those Reserve units, who themselves are a conglomerate of individual units not nececarilly associated with one another, who are forced to stay at in the only space availible to them, I'd say that this problem is being caused beause the soldiers are having to deal with burocratic higher ups who are not dealing with the situation properly because they don't have to live there and wait it out with the troops.
But if it means anything to you. Normal open bay barracks are oblong with single rooms with rows of bunk beds that hold 50-60 people. That is normal. I lived like that more than once in the Army. When I was at Ft. Gordon they were tin instead of concrete and we had no air conditioning but we did have those huge industrial fans at either end of the bay, which I suspect these guys do, only they didn't say so in the article, but again this is not out of the norm.
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Date: 2003-10-18 01:56 am (UTC)Reguarding the Doctor issue I have no clue unless they are just seriously short handed. Like I said the National Guard area usually only has folks in it for a few weeks during the summer. So it's possible that they don't have the people to accomidate what is basically a whole another Army post.
But I'd say that since Ft. Stewart it's self is an entirely seperate intaty from those Reserve units, who themselves are a conglomerate of individual units not nececarilly associated with one another, who are forced to stay at in the only space availible to them, I'd say that this problem is being caused beause the soldiers are having to deal with burocratic higher ups who are not dealing with the situation properly because they don't have to live there and wait it out with the troops.
But if it means anything to you. Normal open bay barracks are oblong with single rooms with rows of bunk beds that hold 50-60 people. That is normal. I lived like that more than once in the Army. When I was at Ft. Gordon they were tin instead of concrete and we had no air conditioning but we did have those huge industrial fans at either end of the bay, which I suspect these guys do, only they didn't say so in the article, but again this is not out of the norm.