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Old 09-20-2018, 09:14 PM
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I was in the Army in 1960 and slept in WW11 Barracks. They seemed OK to me. What were the problems you saw with these Barracks?
I was stationed at Ft. Jackson, SC in 1965. The barracks were terrible, uninsulated firetraps. Soft coal was burned to warm the shower water. Of course burning it seriously polluted the environment. We did morning pushups in a low lying cloud of coal smoke. If a man blew his nose into a handkerchief lots of black soot was deposited into the cloth. Ugh!

Freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer. the barracks were not insulated, heated or cooled. It was a dump!
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