The command called on US Marines at a base in California to independently repair their barracks

U.S. Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton, California, must learn to make minor repairs to their barracks quarters themselves. The higher command is making this appeal to military personnel, the American press reports.

According to media reports, Marines are encouraged to paint rooms, seal cracks in walls, and fight mold on their own. The command considers the skills of minor home repairs useful and tries to instill them in the personnel.

The command's published program says Marines can ask barracks commanders for permission to fix problems and then make the repairs themselves. At the same time, the Marines themselves are skeptical about such proposals. After all, the same repair tools are issued to military personnel on a first-come, first-served basis.

Soldiers of the US Marine Corps are also dissatisfied with the fact that such calls, in their opinion, indicate the desire of the higher command to shift the burden of maintaining barracks facilities onto the servicemen themselves, although it is the state that must guarantee them acceptable conditions of accommodation and living.

Finally, it is not very clear which repairs will be considered satisfactory and which will not. After all, different people have different skills in carrying out repair work and different abilities for such types of activities.

The command, in turn, assures that the implementation of a program for self-repair of barracks allows work to be done faster, since civilian contractors often delay repairs in barracks. In addition, corps officers argue that carrying out repairs themselves will allow servicemen to take the initiative to improve the quality of their own living in the barracks.

Earlier, the Accounting Chamber of the US Administration came to the conclusion that thousands of American military personnel living in the barracks are in conditions unacceptable for normal life. The worst situation is for the Marines - more than 17 thousand US Marines live in poor conditions. In the naval forces, the number of people living in poor conditions is much lower - about 5 thousand people.

Comments

[ZovSailor]

There are sorrows in life, that’s why they are funny army misadventures!
The enemy behind the puddle is trying to understand the Russian soul, mastering Soviet methods of army training and education, seeing the successes of the most powerful army in the world on the battlefield!

[Lev_Russia]

Well, why...??? They would invite Ukrov, they would quickly lick all your barracks... What, but they are great at licking...???

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Lev_Russia

They would invite Ukrov, they would quickly lick all your barracks... Well, they are great at licking...

Recruit Tajiks into the US Marine Corps - they will give them “European-quality renovation” in their barracks...

And in the second half of the 90s, Ukrainians came in large numbers and began to reduce prices for our masons on private construction sites (at that time private owners had their peak in cottage construction). They said it once, they said it twice... And then they gathered, hit me in the neck - everything stopped. In the early 2000s, they themselves disappeared somewhere. They probably went to Poland to pick strawberries and apples.

[Gomunkul]

Recruit Tajiks into the US Marine Corps - they will give them “European-quality renovation” in their barracks...

They have enough Tajiks of their own. There are arrivals across the Mexican border every day.

[Alf]

Quote: Gomunkul

There are arrivals across the Mexican border every day.

Even the fence doesn't help. “In Mexican schools, another subject was added to the final exam - overcoming fences with the help of poles.”

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Gomunkul

Recruit Tajiks into the US Marine Corps - they will give them “European-quality renovation” in their barracks...

They have enough Tajiks of their own. There are arrivals across the Mexican border every day.

Those "Tajiks" don't know how to do European-quality renovations in the barracks. If you believe the Americans themselves, then those “Tajiks” don’t know how to do anything except drive mules. Even my favorite writer O'Henry discussed this matter more than a hundred years ago

It was all Little Llano's fault; he should have limited his habit of killing people to the Mexicans. But the Kid was over twenty years old, and at the border along the Rio Grande at twenty years old it is indecent to count only Mexicans with you. (c)
O'Henry. "The vile deceiver"

[Gomunkul]

Those "Tajiks" don't know how to do European-quality renovations in the barracks.

Modern Mexicans already know how, I watched a video on YouTube the other day, where one of our former compatriots showed how Mexicans work on building houses in Texas.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Not at all. They ran to dig the sea. Ukrainian.)

[andrewkor]

Their Marines should be introduced to the practice of the “demobilization chord” during the Soviet Army and look at the results!¿

[seamen2]

*It would be necessary to familiarize their Marines with the practice of the “demobilization chord” of the times of the Soviet Army*.
Why Soviet? And Russian. I remembered the service in Molkino (the same one) in 1999. This is exactly what we were doing then, which is what they are now trying to impose on the Marines.
It’s true that, unlike us, they are not offered to get food themselves. Not offered yet.

[andrewkor]

Because I served a line in 1971-73 and understand the realities of the modern Russian army with the help of VO.

[Thrifty]

Will there be compensation for damaged makeup on nails?

[oleg-nekrasov-19]

They will compensate with free tickets to gay parades and parties.

[antiaircrafter]

There is no need to call on Russian military personnel to do this. They are already doing repairs in their barracks.

[Old_wars]

The next stage is cleaning the parade ground!

[Alf]

Quote: Old_war

The next stage is cleaning the parade ground!

With a crowbar. Under the clear command of the warrant officer.

[APASUS]

US Marines Construction Battalion? So these are little things, you should get acquainted with BSL 2, the Cuban bucket, that’s where the real fun is

[saygon66]

-They have such, it’s not strange... CB, or “Sea Bees”!

[saygon66]

- Now they are organizing a “house band” of “invaders” at each base - and things will go well...

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

There is no need to look there. Drug addicts and fagots are in the household gang.

[Alf]

Quote: Andrey Nikolaevich

There is no need to look there. Drug addicts and fagots are in the household gang.

And then who will be left to carry out the service?

[Vladimir 290]

I don’t know how it is now, but the soldiers of the USSR Armed Forces themselves did minor repairs in the barracks, so I don’t see anything unusual in this, I did it myself.

[Andrey Moskvin]

They will live in a pigsty, but they won’t lift a finger. Lazy hand-assed people.

[Serhio250381]

Let's just say, not only small and not only the USSR, but also in the Russian army

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Tassels in hand and forward, with a song! Dembel chord, stripes.))

[Grossvater]

Soooo! Let's take crowbars and go sweep the parade ground!
Three sergeant major, a broom would be better.
But I don’t need anything better, I need you to......, well, tired, in general.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

oooh ..military humor...good
- so... platoon, now let’s go study the vigorous monba
-Comrade Sergeant Major, not a nuclear one, but a nuclear one, not a bonba, but a bomb
-and the privates who are highly literate go to unload cast iron

[HAM]

For unauthorized renovation of a house (or a neighbor did it) in Germany you can run into big financial troubles, and the states are no better......will the Marines also pay taxes for repairs?
That's how many green tugriks will go from the tax office into the pockets of the generals!

[bone1]

It’s funny, why not sew your own uniform and produce your own weapons?

[Andrey Moskvin]

What if they needed to sew a collar collar to the collar?

[Chip4ik]

If they themselves start acting out, then half of the guests will die from electric shock while repairing sockets))

[Alf]

Quote from Chip4ik

If they themselves start acting out, then half of the guests will die from electric shock while repairing sockets))

First, the first half - the repairmen - will die...The guests will die later.

[Electrical]

I don’t believe that California and Armenians didn’t exist. But you can negotiate with the corrupt Armenians, and you can cut the hair of the devil for money.

[Alf]

Quote: Electrical

I don’t believe that California and Armenians didn’t exist. But you can negotiate with the corrupt Armenians, and you can cut the hair of the devil for money.

За бабки и ...ак договорится, а вот попробуй бесплатно заставить...Ниггеров уже не пристегнешь, грамотные нынче порождения пальм и баобабов пошли.

[gmss]

At the same time, the Marines themselves are skeptical about such proposals. After all, the same repair tools are issued to military personnel on a first-come, first-served basis.

Apparently they don’t even know about the word “give birth”

[boriz]

Call the parents of the Marines to a parent-teacher meeting and collect money for repairs. That's all and business.
Everything needs to be taught...