Living In the Barracks

[smokeypuppy]

Here's a run down on living in the barracks. 2am you wake up to your roommates girlfriend which spent the night and has to leave. 555am barracks inspection. CSM is pissed and has everyone in the battalion clean the barracks to its spotless. T mins later, someone takes out their trash and it leaks across the entire hallway. Friday night, weekends, and 4 days, the barracks can get rowdy with a dozen plus dudes drinking and smoking until a fight occurs. Random health and awareness inspections at 430 am and your rooms are stripped and dogs come through. Nco's find weird things like 20 used condoms on drawers, s3x toys and handcuffs. Then you have the guy who thought it was a good idea to play his drums at 1am on a Tuesday night and he didnt think anyone could hear. My 1st barracks room was infested with bed bugs, my 2nd one a week later had pule stains on the wall and obvious piss stains all over the mattress. Glorious

[tylergullion]

Bro these barracks are DOPE..mine looked NOTHING like this in Ft Polk..we had asbestos and moldy water..no joke look it up..and that was in 2008

[gtrkuro]

80% of Army barracks do not look like this.

[kirkwalker]

Dang they got stoves?! These some fancy barracks.

[ChipBadLuck]

“I felt welcome as soon as I got here. All these e6s taking me out to eat and inviting me to drink! I’m not even 21! I love the army”

- every female lower enlisted

[TexasBestGamer]

I like how y’all don’t tell them the bad things about being in the barracks! GI parties, not all barracks have stoves/ovens, you could have a nasty roommate, DPW never fixes the issues with your barracks room in a timely manner etc. stop the 🧢

[barkebarker]

Back in 1990 our battalion had a meeting with BG Wesley Clark (at Fort Irwin). He went on for 5 minutes telling us all how great he was for providing all this new housing so married soldiers didn't have to live in town. He then asked, "How are things in the barracks?"

A soldier responded: "The barracks are overcrowded, sir."
Clark: "...get married and move out."

Of course, all the married soldiers thought that was funny.

The barracks remained overcrowded. They packed 3 of us in rooms designed for 2.

I could go on and on with endless examples but, in a nutshell, barracks are degrading and dehumanizing places where you are continuously treated like dogshit. And the people in charge, who can change it (like Wesley Clark) don't have to live in the barracks. Hence, they don't give a shit about you.

I wouldn't recommend any unmarried person sign up unless they have no other option for improving their life.

[skelegunsoooooo]

My cousin served in the Army, he trained in Fort Jackson. Actually Fort Jackson is the first military base I’ve ever visited.

[anthonybutlerblume]

Y'all forgot to mention those room inspections

[xtrydelta]

They won't tell you about all the PIPE that you be hearing at night when you trying to sleep 😂 or the barracks parties at 3 AM or people stealing your clothes from the laundry room. The room inspections, the heater don't work, no privacy
It's bad these are 1000% acting

[xan]

So basically I’m supposed to be grown as hell living in a dorm room

[thatisemtile]

Plot twist: these are college students posesing as soilders

[badjuju]

I went in 97. I never had barracks that nice. 2 to a room, 2 shared latrines/showers for each floor, and shared laundry. We always used the wall lockers to kinda separate the room. Still some of the best times and friends i ever had were in those barracks.

[irgordon]

Not every barracks is like that, still many, many barracks that are 2 mans rooms with no stove or bathroom inside them. Its rare to have good condition barracks, many are due for a capital overhaul/renovation.

[Romesixteen]

While the barracks can (to a certain point) be what you make of it, this video does not accurately show what the barracks and Single Soldier life is like

[oldvet]

I loved my military job. I was very good at it. I hated living with idiots. I finally got out of the army for that reason. It’s one thing to work w the idiots. That can happen any where, but is quit another to have to live with them.

[MarcusGondhai]

at fort hood other than a shared bathroom and closet there are no doors, not every base had nice barracks like this. I can only dream to get actual privacy like this. 800 billion dollar budget and yet many of us soldiers are still living in barracks from world war 2.

[drewbruckner]

They need to seriously reevaluate who they force to live in the barracks. There should be a cutoff age, or as soon as you become an NCO you can move out; whichever one comes first.

[jaegermann]

THINK MARK!! The reality is that the barracks are held to a lower health standard because you have no other choice but to live in the barracks! Regardless of how well you try to take care of your room, you’ll live to seen your stuff crumble to dust and get stolen away!!

[yavin]

Doesn't the Army do PT anymore because people are looking out of shape.