Staff Infection

THE WAR AT HOME

 

We still haven’t quite figured out how to take care of our troops at home and Ed Frawley is just more proof. Frawley, whose son was stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina after a 15-month tour of Afghanistan, caught the base’s ongoing squalor on camera: soldiers fighting standing sewage, rows of broken toilets, broken drains and buildings practically falling apart.

Per CNN:

Frawley’s 10-minute video shows still photos from throughout the building, which appears to be falling apart and filled with mold and rust.

Paint — which Frawley said is lead-based — is chipping. Ceiling tiles are missing. A broken drain pipe allows sewer gas into the building, while another one has tissues stuffed into it in an apparent effort to stop the gas from coming in.

Photos from the communal bathroom show some of the most disgusting images. In one, a soldier stands in a sink to avoid what Frawley describes as 3 inches of sewage water that filled the floor when toilets overflowed.

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