It's got legs and claws and teeth, now. I thought CNN might be a good idea. Glad to see it going public, I hope that the publicity forces improvements.
Keep on pushing, Ed.

Hi Ed,

Congratulations on getting this out there. On another forum, there was talk about the possibility of Jeff getting backlash from this exposure.

I don't know how the military works, but is that a real possibility or just sour grapes from those people?

 Quote: Mike Hawker

. . . there was talk about the possibility of Jeff getting backlash from this exposure. . .

That kind of risk is not just limited to the military, but I think here any is risk is more than offset by the amount of media attention nationwide.
And that doesn't even consider the factor of pissing off Ed even more!

Mike

Yes, I pity the fool who gets on Ed's bad side.

I'm in the Air Force, stationed in Goldsboro, NC. My wife and I were watching the 6:00 news the other day and they had the clip on about the barracks down at Bragg. I know Ed's voice from his videos and was taken totally off guard when I remember thinking, "Why is Ed Frawley's voice on my TV right now?" It was very odd. Of course I ran right to my computer to see if was the same Ed. Well done Mr. Frawley!

We have lift-off -- it just hit Drudge.

Here is the Drudge article: Linked from Yahoo News:

Here

WASHINGTON - Army officials said Tuesday they are inspecting every barracks building worldwide to see whether plumbing and other problems revealed at Fort Bragg, N.C., last week are widespread.


Brig. Gen. Dennis Rogers, who is responsible for maintaining barracks throughout the Army, told reporters at the Pentagon that most inspections were done last weekend but he had not seen final results.

While not providing specifics about problems discovered during the weekend inspections, Rogers indicated some deficiencies were corrected. In cases where extensive repairs are deemed necessary, the soldiers in that housing would be moved elsewhere until the fixes are completed, he added.

Rogers said it was too soon to know whether the Fort Bragg problem was an isolated incident. He acknowledged the revelations from a video shot by the father of an 82nd Airborne Division soldier showing poor conditions such as mold inside the barracks, peeling interior paint and a bathroom drain plugged with sewage.

The soldier's father, Ed Frawley, said he was disgusted by the conditions that greeted his son and the rest of his 82nd Airborne unit that returned on April 7-8 after a 15-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.

"We let our soldiers down, and that's not like us," Rogers told reporters. "We let our soldiers down. That's not how we want America's sons and daughters to live. There's no good excuse for what happened."

He said the problems in that building have been fixed and that a final paint job is in the works. It is one of 24 barracks at Fort Bragg that were built in the 1950s and are scheduled for demolition by 2013. The barracks singled out by Frawley had been remodeled in April 2006, Rogers said.

Rogers said the Army's standard procedure is to inspect a barracks building to verify that it meets Army standards before it is occupied by soldiers returning from an overseas deployment. For reasons he was unable to explain, that apparently did not happen in the Fort Bragg incident.

A spokesman for Fort Bragg, Tom McCollum, told the same group of reporters that the post, which is one of the Army's largest with a population of 51,000 soldiers — including more than 12,000 who live on the post — is saddled with 1950s-vintage housing that is not popular with soldiers.

Of the more than 12,000 in barracks at Fort Bragg, about 2,500 are in those built in the 1950s, Army spokesman Paul Boyce said.

"Are soldiers happy with living in the Korean War-era barracks? No," McCollum said. They do not meet the expectations of today's troops, although the Army has done what it can to improve living conditions, McCollum said, speaking by telephone from Fort Bragg.

"Today, no matter how hard we try, we can't put enough lipstick on this pig to make it more pretty," the spokesman said. "So are there soldiers complaining? Yeah." He said they've been complaining for decades.

I wonder if all the problems have been fixed as the article states.

 Quote: Barbara Fisher

. . . one of 24 barracks at Fort Bragg that were built in the 1950s and are scheduled for demolition by 2013. . .

. . .and then how much longer to build new ones? Jeff will be a General by then.

Hey, doesn't FEMA have a few thousand trailers available for temporary housing?

No, wait, they spent $24B for over 35,000 trailers that are too toxic for people to live in. So I guess the government gives you a choice of poison - formaldehyde or mold.

And the candidates want to raise taxes to give more money to these buffoons?

 Quote: mike hawker

Hi Ed,

On another forum, there was talk about the possibility of Jeff getting backlash from this exposure.

Mmmmm, I highly doubt that Jeff will receive backlash from this. It is something that needs to be dealt with and they know this.
How can you backlash something that is so obvious? And, just think what would happen if he did get any kind of flack......YIKES, I cannot imagine what Ed would do if that happened.

Jeff, from what I have read and heard, is a great soldier. Dedicated and hard working so I doubt the military will mess with him.

This story needed to be told. Otherwise, the soldiers could have complained until hell froze over and they may have been ignored.
It is obvious the brass knew about the conditions by the way they "talked", and like one of the spokespersons said, "There is no excuse."

I truly believe that since these men and women serve our Country then we should serve them with the honor and respect they deserve and this was not being done by placing them in the wreck of a building they got when they returned.

I am hoping that they have moved them to new barracks for now.