Troops plagued by filthy conditions, squatters in military barracks: report

The Army has woefully failed to meet its recruiting and retention goals, but, really, is addressing that problem anywhere close to as important as ensuring that our forces reflect “the racial and gender makeup of our county”?

A new government report detailed the dire living conditions some military members face in their barracks across the country, highlighting a problem military leaders have so far struggled to fix.
A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that young troops living in barracks on military installations have been forced to confront everything from pests such as roaches and bed bugs to toxic waste and even squatters, potentially putting the health and safety of members at risk while damaging morale.
The 118-page report, which was published Monday by the GAO, concluded that military leaders at the Pentagon have not been able to provide proper oversight over the problem and have mostly left the issues up to each individual service to fix.

So, if they can’t provide decent housing for the troops, how’s that diversity thing going? Remember when Defense Secretary ordered the entire Army, worldwide, to stand down so that white racists could be dug out and exposed? Well …

DoD Report Finds No Evidence of Disproportionate Extremism within Military

A study commissioned by the Department of Defense to assess the extent of extremism within the armed services found no evidence that the military harbors a disproportionate number of political radicals.
Conducted by a team of researchers from the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), the study found “fewer than 100 substantiated cases per year of extremist activity by members of the military in recent years.”
The report was inspired by growing concern among members of the incoming Biden administration that the military had been infiltrated by white supremacists and other right-wing extremists. The concerns were largely driven by the Capitol riot, which resulted in nearly three dozen current and former service members being charged.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called January 6 a “wake-up call” on the extent of right-wing extremism in the military, while then-Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told CNN the problem was “vexing.” “Many of these people,” Kirby added, “work very hard to conceal their beliefs. We can’t be the thought police.”
However, the report found that “of the more than 700 federal cases in which charges were publicly available a year after these events, fewer than ten” were serving in the military at the time of the riot. There’s “no evidence that service members were charged at a different rate than the members of the general population.”

We’re being led by very stupid people.