Even more disgusting is that they're letting this turd 💩💩💩 of a company to continue to support our military members and their families. These guys should have been thrown out on their asses and the whole system revamped. It's clear to me you need at least two levels of accountability to track repairs, one at the base level and one at the company level. The call for repair should start with the repair request going to base CE who then calls the 💩 repair company. Then, before any bonuses are paid the books are reconciled to verify the claim is legit.
Anyone that targets him on this will loose any political hopes in the future. His 1.7 Million = 1.7 Million Family's that vote. Fear lasts way longer than respect. Eat a D Politicians in uniform.
At this point it'd honestly be refreshing to find a single government contractor that WASN'T utterly corrupt and stealing taxpayer money to NOT do the job they were specifically contracted to do.
Right here. I even outperformed the baseline by at least billions of dollars. I priced the contract drastically, unbeatably, below the market value because it wasnt about the money. I wanted to help people and I just needed compensation for the time, risk and costs. Try to guess what happened... I was defrauded and have basically had my life ruined at the moment from John C Rogers ("lobbying" firm capstone national partners that openly advertises "fixer" and other services now). He is a former assistant vice undersecretary of defense appointed by Clinton despite losing the elections he was supposed to be running. He was in and out of the DoD appointment pretty quick too, try to figure out the reasons. Anyways a ton of stuff has happened despite literally making people billions of dollars that was clean, that John is fundamentally incapable of, while actually helping people (which John and Alex Rogers are definitely incapable of). My uncle was a Secretary of the Air Force. Bringing these types of soft hard "business" pretexted threats to light and at least trying to get somewhere as far as mitigation is real service. Threats foreign and domestic. A lot of these people arent even competently financially selfishly corrupt. Its sometimes not even about the money. They try to make it look like it is but its deeper and way more malicious than that... And or theyre literally THAT stupid that they cant even calculate risk adjusted returns, market verticles or expected values. Quite a lot of surveillance programs have been formally acknowledged at this point. How difficult do you think it is for somebody to detect this type of thing in our own literal military bases and housing? Alphabet, Meta, Amazon and more probably thoroughly knew and were sending targeted ads about it even. Whats an acceptable police response time to a priority call in Detroit and how can people think that we can handle anything more complex than something like this if the response isnt even acceptable in a civilian Detroit context? We need to step our performance way tf up.
@@toprandomvideos2123 the swamp is so deep at this point I don’t see any peaceful way out. They’re working on starving us to death, and people are still firmly in their own little worlds. We’ve made waist deep corruption a way of life.
Sytek They just make vertical shelfing units We are always afraid we're gonna lose the contract but every other company that has tried has failed due to complacency in their own bases.
If you're not pissed, you're not paying attention. AC is definitely paying attention and I'm grateful that he is. Thanks for bringing this to all your viewers attention.
That is a great line. "If you're not pissed, you're not paying attention". Same could go for most companies or corporations. The SOP's of most companies are maddening.
Honestly these are the types of NCO’s that we need in our military. Those who care about their subordinates well being and get genuinely pissed when they see their guys getting fucked
actually you need officers to be this passionate. NCOs can't do much without being approved by the officer. unfortunately there are sooooo many silver spoon officers that it forces out all the good military personnel.
@@maximusgladi8or I’d say it’s both. Yeah officers can get more done but even that’s not completely true. I’ve seen an E-7 get more done than a butter bar
I am Altus AFB and we have the "BBC" here and upper leadership loves to just look away and pretend nothing is wrong and ignore their Airman. So glad AC made a video about this. Keep up the good work!
@@shelt4430 I was in the Army and Oklahoma Air National Guard . I was Stationed at Ft. Sill Oklahoma . I've been Through Altus a Couple of times . I feel for ya Bro I feel for ya . now I'm in Temple Texas . been in Texas for the Last 33 years. Love it here in Texas . our Governor Greg Abbott has told Biden and His Criminal Cronies TO SHOVE IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE.. 👍👍 👍
My (then) dependa fought me tooth and nail to move on base for a long time back when I was in. I tried telling them they didn't know what they were asking for... Needless to say after I gave in, not even 3 months later they were begging to move back off.
Depending on the location there are some great private renters, unfortunately where I am now all the rentable houses are operated by American Homes 4 Rent which is a garbage company with serious breed restrictions, costs way more to rent than the BAH (thanks housing market) or are straight up slums. I vowed I would never move into base housing after spending a good chunk of my childhood living in it and hearing the horror stories of the neighbors and the housing company but I got so desperate that my wife and I will now be moving on base.
Actually when it was controlled by the military repairs were spot on though the drinking water left something to be desired on some bases but these companies came in and F#$k it all up. I remember hearing about how in a few short years the home we lived in after the company took over became super infested with black mold. Learned this from a lawsuit against them for health conditions which didn't happen before the companies took over that housing area.
I'm no veteran, but hearing about this, and hearing it explained as accurately as humanly possible, and it just being glossed over basically, is disgusting.
my dad used to have a joke/truth on his desk (he was is a cpa) the joke was about paying the gov the same way the gov spends for his taxes when i saw the 6k for a fucking screw driver nothing suprised me anymore.
When I was in the Marines, a few times a year we did what was called a "Chinese field day" which is where you completely empty your barracks room and clean it top to bottom. Most of the time we were wearing gas masks and basically just throwing bleach everywhere. This was due to constant black mold issues that always came back. Replaced our mattresses once a year too. This was between 2008 and 2013. The barracks I lived in during that time have been condemned for about 5 years now according to a younger Marine who was stationed in the same unit.
This is the one thing that confused me with the military. The military is practically self sufficient (they don't grow food and they do buy components from outside) but it has virtually every profession that you can find in civilian life including plumbers and carpenters. But they have to use civilian contractors to perform repairs.
It is frustrating! In 2003 we went to Iraq and had Soldiers build barracks, provide water, cook food, do laundry (huge DoD owned machines) and everything you can need. In 2010, there were more contractors than Soldiers there. Their excuses are they dont have to pay benefits to contractors but it isnt like they got rid of those Soldiers..
wouldnt want your military men becoming super proficient in all the trades.. so it goes off into the world to be successful .. don't want that.. they want that Chi-com infected uselessness and mal-pathetacisms where there soy soldiers are all too limp wristed to fight black mold... and possibly because cnn will blare the us militarys racist as it removes Black from its housing.. later to be corrected in a unread article that comes out and says oh they removed black mold..
@@Veteran_Aviator Public officials always help out their civilian buddies so that they can be on the board or invested or some other way involved when they retire from public service. The military is no different; it's just as full of bureaucrats as the rest of government.
As an AF Jr Enlisted that has lived on base with Belford Beauty, I greatly appreciate this video Rich. Over a year of complaints from myself going silent. Also my oven was old and barely worked, as in I couldn't get it up to temperature to cook. They told me "Well it turns on, so its not broken" I couldn't even cook a frozen pizza or brownies all the way without going another 20 minutes over the cook time
Let's be honest, this was the best possible ending and that's only because it was exposed through a private journalist. If it had been a "Military investigation" from the getgo then only Miriam would have been held accountable, and everything else would have been swept under the rug.
I lived in one of the “mold houses” managed by Balfour Beatty at Sheppard AFB, TX. They denied any of the mold or asbestos issues, yet my house is condemned to this day (2 years later). My neighbors saw in person them deleting work orders from their system so they could collect their end of year bonus. My family along with a lot of my close friends have had so many health and mental issues such as infertility and tumors developing. We never saw a penny from them or any accepting of wrongdoing. It was the worst experience of my life
Was there for tech school, dorms had mold issues and insect infestations. Vectrus was in charge of fixing all of this and they were obligated to fix it by 180 DAYS!!!! All of our NCO’s there hate that place to death.
We've had a two mile stretch of road near where I live under construction for three years now. And another intersection that was worked on for around the same time. Literally dudes show up, push some sand around. Stand around looking busy, then leave with nothing actually done.
I worked for Balfour Beatty right out of school as a Project Engineer on commercial construction projects. It was one of the most toxic companies I ever worked for. Sadly, not even surprised about this.
Currently transferring and the housing I just left had black mold, plenty of cockroaches, constant flooding from broken pipes or from toilet tanks overflowing, and confirmed asbestos in an entire wing. We had a log to report it but you only did that so you wouldnt be held accountable for breaking anything if you just moved in the room. I also used to be homeless and had a better living situation then this. Thanks AC for helping bring this to light.
Too bad alot of them are comming up on ETS and they are not reupping. I dont blame them! The Army really started screwing up when they started promotions to E-5 before PLDC. I went to PLDC as an E-4. There is a marked difference between the 2 sets. If your an E-4 or above and cant conduct a PT session, your wrong!
"You cant afford diamonds that big priiiiiiiivate! alls you got is some skeeter wings. Make em' smaller! (hands ontop of eachother) There ya go priiiiivate!!! DOOOOOWWWNNNN!!!! "WHO TOLD YOU TO COME UP? DONT ANTICIPATE THE COMMAND!" UUUUUP!🤣🤣🤣 Hated my DS's back in the day. But love them now! Zero 💩 taken and zero fûçks given. "Dont thank me... thank your recruiter!"
The VA seems to be be great in some areas but horrible in others. Around here the VA is in Kerrville Texas and every vet I know that has gone there loves it. They seem to care and do what's right. But I have family who deal with the VA in Florida, I think it's in Orlando and it's been nothing short of a steaming pile of crap. While I'm sure the military makes it difficult for them all we really need to see internally at the individual facility's why some are so good and others so bad. It may be the fact this area of Texas has a lot of retired high ranking military including a admiral (who I can't stand) to lots of colonels including may she rest in peace one of my favorite people Lt colonel Vera Hoenig. She was a tell it like it 95 year old who fought to keep women in the military after the war ended. She was quick to admit she got the best care possible from the VA due to her rank and career achievements but even lower ranking gets get good care at the Kerrville facility.
Air Force here, our privatized housing is indeed fucked. It's even worse than it should be because some of the IG staff is defending them to us during their feedback sessions where we're supposed to tell them our complaints.
I'm willing to bet that there's some Government employee that is receiving kick backs for the 20 million. I'm also willing to bet that nobody will ever go to prison for this.
Holy shit. Even I got hot hearing this. How in the absolute fuck does that bbc still have a contract? I know military intelligence is a massive oxymoron but its going beyond stupid.
When I was in, I had an assignment where I worked with contracts and contractors. The reason why BCC still has a contract is that the government is bound to the contract, too, and there's probably whole sections the process and timeline for remedying deficiencies, and putting BBC on probation is step one, which already took enormous amounts of lawyers and paperwork. If you try to jump straight to step ten where they get terminated, they'll take you to court and win, because the government side of the arrangement almost never has its ducks in a row.
Exactly, when one lower enlisted fucks up there is collective punishment, but when many officers fuck up they just get a slap on the wrist. One of the many reasons I left, saw yes men, brown-nosers, and blue falcons getting their promotions while hard working effective individuals being passed over or forced out (including good officers that pissed off the chain of command by following it properly and reporting on shitty stuff going on).
@@nerofl89 Facts.......Same..Still pisses me off and I've been out for 10 years..I was AF and the amount of brown nosing and tattle telling that goes on is insane.. Teammates my ass
I was US Coast Guard and only stayed in Navy housing twice(Cape Cod Otis ANGB and then at Kittery, ME at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard) I remember having to sign all kinds of waivers due to the amount of lead and other heavy metals in the soil and water on Otis. I don’t recall anything bad in Kittery, other than worrying my son may come home with a spent nuclear fuel rod buried beneath the playground.
It more than that there is alot of payoffs and corruption. For the military it should just be internal, sure mabey you have have some guys getting payed to sit around, but odds are it would cost less, and most people whould prefer that then this BS. Not to mention the fact that if you are in the military you are gonna give more of a shot about fixing this stuff.
All government work is like this. There is also the things like minority contractors you are required to use even if the govt you're doing a job for acknowledges that the people you have to use won't actually do the work/won't do the work in a satisfactory manner.
I believe this is the Angriest I’ve seen Angry Cops, and rightfully so. That is beyond infuriating and I really hope the right things get done to resolve it
Dude, my BAH in San Diego for an apartment on base housing was around $2,000 a month for a shared condo. Those bastards wouldn't even let us control the air conditioning. Inside deals going on, and someone's silk pocket is getting bigger.
I use to work for a company that did a joint venture highway project with Balfour Beatty. BB stopped paying for their half of the materials, and then pulled out and left before the project was done
@@AngryCops Someone (or several someones) at the top of the company is a business buddy or family member of somebody (or several somebodies) in congress. Or there are quite a few congress critters who made boatloads of money investing in the company just before announcing that it had been given the contract in the early 2000s, and then selling it off just before the 2008-2009 crash.
When I was stationed in Germany in the 90s we were still living in Nazi youth barracks left over from WW2, our showers were open bays like basic training so you never have any privacy but the barracks were so horrible there's no way it could be legal to live like that in the US, some rooms were empty permanently because they were such bad condition. 3 MFING YEARS PROBATION FOR STEALING 20 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, it just shows money buys your way out of trouble while the rest of us get thrown in jail over bullshit.
Anyone remember when the Army was in the "people business" and they had the Civilian Facility Engineers? All you did was call them and they'd come out (just about) immediately and fix whatever was wrong TO YOUR SATISFACTION and they were polite and professional, and they came with the proper parts.
I wa in in the late 90's through to 04 and frankly, no I did not see that at all. When I was at Ft. Hood, my ex and I at the time avoided living on post because of all the horror stories I heard and actually saw at my buddies' houses on post. It was a joke at the time that you didn't want to request on-post housing because the housing folks would do everything they could to keep you from saying there were already damages when you moved in, just so you would have to pay for them out of pocket.
@@looinrims In this specific instance, it was $20M. This is one occasion on which the corruption was caught. You think this is the only leak in the US budget?
Unfortunately he hasn't blown the whistle on it. BBC was know to be a shitty company back in 2010 when I lived on Tinker and was being investigated for code violation while building houses on Tinker. It was all over the news for awhile but eventually disappeared. Money has a tendency to make problems disappear.
When I was active duty instead of making those calls being tired of it many of us brought our own tools and fixed the problems. We kept the receipts and people were pissed.
When I was at Lackland AFB as a Red Hat, the smart higher ups combined all the CE units into the San Antonio Real Property Management Authority. When Safety condemned one of our marksmanship range covers, SARPMA wanted 30 grand to tear it down (which of course was not in the budget) and three months to replace it with a new one (another ten grand). One weekend, we Red Hats used a deuce-and-a-half and a chain to pull down the range cover, then swarmed over it with our own tools and took it apart and disposed of the wood in the impact area and then constructed a new range cover and delivered the receipts to the Group Commander. He was not happy but in the end got the money to cover the expenses (less than a grand).
When I was in Basic our barracks were being renovated, but the privates were doing the work while the construction company got paid for our work. And that was on top of all our other training. We tore up the tiles, removed doors, painted walls, laid no slip pads in the stairwells, and more for 6 weeks of our 8 weeks of Basic.
The saddest part of this all is that Balfour Beatty used to be a respected company that did decent work. They did a lot of big construction projects in the 1980s and 1990s that were highly respected and awarded. Somewhere around 2000, they did what happens to so many companies - they let it go to their head. They jumped on the War on Terror contractor bandwagon, quadrupled in size (or more) and were never held accountable.
Agreed dude. Worked as a subcontractor for them on the new(ish) Ft. Riley hospital. Couldn't get the expansion joints sealed up & the Army Corps of "Engineers" wouldn't sign off on it. Got hung up in litigation. Eventually most of the subs had to contact senators and congressmen to get paid in full...
The 60 mill is prob honestly not enough, the health effects of black mold and all the other things the service men and families couldn’t control is definitely something that needs to be accounted for
At least now that they've been found guilty, the servicemembers and their families might be able to bring suit against BBC for health effects suffered as a result of negligence related to the fraudulent activity (maybe as a class action). The initial penalty, which as AC says is incredibly light, is hopefully only the tip of the potential iceberg that is future litigation against BBC.
This is why i think stuff like this needs to go back to being done by the military itself like it used to. If the seabees take too long to fix something or fuck up the fix its easier to keep enlisted members straight than contractors. Plus you know that money being stolen from the feds won't really be near as big of an issue if its all done in house.
Not only in the military though. Industries needed for day-to-day business of a functioning country MUST NOT be privatized. Don't know about the US but on my side of the big pond most of those industries like public transport, facilities (water, waste water, power, gas, garbage collection) etc. are privatized, and NOTHING WORKS. Those people don't work half the time they're supposed to. Now just imagine for a moment they go bancrupt, what now? Sure, they have contracts, but who cares? Those services will be lost overnight and for the next three months everybody scrambles because nobody knows what the hell to do. We can't let the functioning of a society be subject to the woes of private contractors. That's how you create third-world hellholes full of corruption and civil unrest.
@@LeBoomStudios completely agree. Private business has its place but not in profiting off the essentials of basic communal necessities. But yes here in the U.S. a good chunk of our politicians love pushing to privatize public programs
This is really disappointing. We should be treating military member better. Especially the lower enlisted. I love AC’s passion. Thought he was gonna blow a blood vessel
Drill's don't blow blood vessels....they only blow marriages. And smartly he is not married. He will die like all SNCOs that don't die in combat...of age, alcohol, and stress. It is the natural order.
My aunt told me that when her ex-husband was in the Navy, she fixed everything in their base house herself. She would borrow tools from neighbors or hardware stores. What she didn't know how to fix, she'd call my grandpa and he would give her step-by-step instructions on it. This was in the 90s.
I've heard of this the problem is those piss ants don't like when you do their job for them if the can cause trouble for someone like your aunt they will
I Live in BBC housing at Kings Bay Base, GA. I refuse to not fix stuff myself unless it will cost me an arm and a leg to do so. I'm not going to have someone else come in my house and do a worse job fixing something than what I could do myself.
Army Vet here, I helped shut down and tear down barracks that were screwed. I also live outside Tinker AFB, in Central Oklahoma. Lots of soldiers complained about the post housing here and In 9 years, I never heard a positive thing about BBC or on post housing, not even from the officers.
Everybody is getting a kickback...meanwhile all our military service members are getting is KICKED! I know this goes to the top and their desire to get further employment after their "career" in the military is over and that is absolutely shameful!
Citizens need to be the force behind the accountability. A demand without repercussion or ultimatum with a price for their unwillingness to comply, is merely a noise to people with power and no regard for their constituents. A demand with peaceful intent, yet repercussion and ultimatum for failure to meet said demands for failure to comply to accountability, is what will get heads rolling and feet over flames... But you also have to have the willingness to execute the repercussions of ultimatum if they decide to consider it a "bluff".
They wanted to charge me $2500.00 when I moved out of base housing in Travis AFB because I didn't use their "preferred" carpet cleaning service. Carpet cleaning is a requirement to move out. I found one who would carpet clean for $300.00 they wanted me to use one that was $700.00!!! Said I violated the agreement and wanted to charge me $2500.00!
@@lawoftheland5923 You'd think that, but nearly all of your BAH goes to these companies as rent, and they have direct lines to paychecks for garnishments. Failure to pay a debt is punishable under the UCMJ. So the the service member is stuck between a rock, a hard place, and a green weenie.
I agreed to pay the "fine" IF and ONLY IF they could find damage (not damage that was already there that I documented when I moved in) associated with the carpet cleaning, which they were not able to find any. My command did get involved and came in during the inspection and told them to F off as the carpets were cleaned as required and it shouldn't matter what company did it. That was my last day in the USAF.
I have watched this video more than 3 times while grading my students' exams. I can't get enough of it. If TH-cam had an OSCARS this man definetly deserves one. Brilliant! Brilliant!
This is why the people that pay attention to how corrupt the govt is, will never ever trust them with anything. This is how they treat soldiers, this is the level of respect they have for people trained to kill and well armed. How much respect do you suppose they have for the average citizen? Do you think they really need the next debt celling limit raised? Do they deserve it? Have they earned it?
I wouldn't mess with someone who can delete me from a distance of 400 yards with a M16 or up close with a knife. I wonder if this housing management company ever thought about who they are dealing with.
This is just sad. When I was in Balfour Beatty Communities LLC took care of my family and the base housing we lived in. I never had any complaints. Now to see what a garbage company they turned into (or what they apparently always were) makes me sick. I cannot believe I supported such a horrible company. I hope this gets fixed and our Service Members are better taken care of.
In all fairness the leaving 20 billion dlrs worth of aircraft, artillery and who knows what in the hands of the same fkn people we been fighting for the last how ever many yrs . Who ever thought that was a good idea should've been swallowed!!!!
You speaking truth. The even handed out covid money without verifying what was being done with it. They sure was on top of it after it was already sent to the countries of the ones stealing it.
@@briscoesjug1026 89 Billion dollars. And there are people out there who want to hand the government MORE power and control over daily individual lives and mandate MORE shit to "protect" people... Those people just deserve the fucking bullet.
It's troubling how little integrity there is at the top. The only reason that company isn't canned and only on 3 year probation is because alot of people up the chain of command were privy to what was going on and probably pocketed some money. Absolutely disgusting. Makes you wonder why even pay taxes or any kind of ticket/ permit when the guys at the too are straight up stealing from you.
Makes you see how much Lt Col Scheller was on to something when he started demanding senior leaders get held accountable. It applies to a lot more than the shit-show of a withdrawal out of Afghanistan.
Back in 90s, I was in army, and new PT uniforms were adopted and AR 670-2 FORBADE mixing and matching the old and new uniforms-turns out, the company that got the contract for the new uniforms was owned by wife of a senior SGM!
Sadly a lot of these housing companies are super shady. I know of places where they actually put into there housing contracts that they don't have to honor the SCRA and that service members aren't allowed to video, photo, and post any issues of their housing publicly (social media). Absolutely disgusting.
This is one of the reasons that I didn't get along so well with some of my fellow officers. I got absolutely LAMBASTED for trying to get one of my PFCs checked in to a DoD substance abuse facility instead of just administratively stiff-arming the guy. I am with Rich on this one.
If voting mattered they wouldnt let us do it! You gotta be mega rich in the first place and you gotta have family or family connections. Go into politics if you think anyone good makes it. Turn your TV off and start critical,y thinking....
We had 1 Marine responsible for fixing shit that broke in the barracks. His tools? 1 wrench. His experience? None. Absolutely fucking no knowledge of what to do. None.
I was in Air Force Civil Engineering Units for 20 years. These units used to be in charge on AF basses to fix military housing both dorms and family housing. The main reason the military went to a contractor to maintain these living quarters is that new housing would have to be approved by Congress through the appropriations committees for each branch. To get approval for new housing the designs would have to be completed along with costs and all the other BS that is needed. Then all the individual branches would submit their packages where they would be racked and stacked by priority or how much complaining was done. If they got approved they would be slated to be paid out of a future years budget. Ultimately your designs and plans could be 5-10 years old before they got funded and by then housing had to be built to a standard that did not meet current building codes. What these companies did should void their contracts but they would just change their name and get the contract again for 50 years. That’s right some AF installations leased the land to the contractor for 50 YEARS!!! Not sure who got paid in that one.
FUCK. why the hell would you lease something for that long. there should be some sort of, i dont know, system to check them to make sure they are not fucking up every so often. then if they are they get the boot, pay fines/ fees and so forth. i dont know like a test/inspection done on all base housing, not select ones that will pass, maybe the ones bitching about stuff. god that sounds fucking awful all around.
This has been going on since 1976 that I'm personally aware of. Grew up on Norton AFB in San Bernardino (That's no longer there) and my grandfather was kicked out of the plumbing union for makeing noise about the absolute crapshow that was the excuse for plumbing in base housing
Videos like this are why you are so respected AC. It’s nice to know someone is so passionate about the issues of his people. Keep on doing what you do best
Geee. I have no idea why people do bad things in order to get money. The punishments vs how much they make are so harsh. It is almost like they are incentivizing people to be dishonorable.
@@theaux1168 sure. Go vote harder normie. I'm sure we can fix everything. I'm glad you have it all figured out. Now I can look forward to a great future instead of one that resembles a post apocalyptic fever dream. 🤗. I'm sure not holding people accountable for being dishonest could never possibly go wrong. Look at the utopia that participation trophies has brought us!!
@@theaux1168 oh ok. Since everyone is doing it we should totally just keep going with it. Let's not hold people accountable and incentivize corruption. I don't see how that could possibly go wrong. It's been working so far right? Utopia has arrived?
Air Force level griping here…6 years with no heat or a/c in our maintenance building. I’m not surprised. Finally the new boss in charge contacted local companies and bypassed CE.
The saddest part is it wont change. Stationed on fort good currently and the barracks here are horrible. There's holes in walls and broken shit everywhere. Bath tubes drain too slow so water just pools, floor tiling is cracked, nails hang out of the walls. If that's not bad enough were forced to share single rooms with other soldiers for how ever long you get stationed here. Beds in the same room, share everything. It's pretty shitty. Lord knows I'm not signing another contract.
Scammers are lame. But why are we subcontracting this crap out? We cant have some private be a plumber show up and fix it? Oh wait. cant give out kickbacks to all your politician pals that way.
The Air Force has entire AFSCs (career fields) in Civil Engineering specifically for this. It's 100% on politicians needing to keep their donors happy.
I feel these kind of issues ie. badly managed subcontracting in government spending SHOULD be an issue that can be fixed by starting accountable in-house services, but the issue is anyone willing to promote the idea will be both fighting the other votes who are currently benefiting from dodgy contract bidding systems and also trying to sell theinitial investment needed to appoint , for example, a head of in house plumbing, ops managers , line managers and trained contractors with all associated admin.
This has me VERY HEATED! From 2015 until 2020, my entire contract, I lived in barracks with black mold, no air conditioning, broken fridges, cockroach infestations, no hot water, and one time we had no power for 30 FUCKING DAYS! Only time I had good bricks were in Okinawa where we only had roaches. In Lejeune it would take them on average 2-4 months to fix most things I mentioned with the exception of literal burst pipes that flooded the building, it only took them 2 days on that. Our building in Lejeune had an elevator that was broken the whole 2 years I was there. And for some fucking reason they'd come through and fix everything in a week when the colonel and sergeant major announce a walkthrough, including the elevator and A/C, but it'd be broken again in less than a week. God forbid the top notices disrepair on their once yearly walkthrough of the barracks. If you put in a help ticket for something that's broke, chances are if it wasn't a light bulb, it'd be broken in a week after they finally fix it anyways. We figured it's because they're trying to milk money from the help requests, but it was infuriating. When a few rooms didn't have power for 30 days, we kept a board with tallies on it that's labeled "days without power". We complained to the barracks manager, who said he complained to the company guns, and gunny said their hands were tied because they already complained to the company that fixes shit and the company told them to wait. 30 fucking days later, I went over all of their heads and went to sergeant major (widely regarded as a no-no for a regular NCO despite every one of them saying they have the open door policy) and said the company is dragging their feet, and wouldn't ya fucking know, he went to the bricks, saw our dark rooms and our board with 30 tallies on it, got pissed, blasted everybody (including me for going over their heads and a marine with a rebel flag in their room), and they got the power fixed a day later because somebody with some weight on their collar stepped in. I got a page 11 for that one by my SNCOIC because I made the whole command look like shit but if that's what it fucking took to get my Marines and I our goddamn power back then sure I'll take it. One more thing... Since we had no air conditioning for most of both summers, a couple of us got portable A/C units because the Carolina summer is HOT and not only would it make sleep impossible, it would make our only sanctuary from the bullshit so uncomfortable it sucked to be there. We got a notice from whoever is in charge of the power for the building that we're using too much power, and to remove the air conditioners immediately. We were told to remove them or get paperwork, so most of us did, but my rebellious ass plugged it in after 1700 when most staff fucked off and it worked great. I got caught eventually by a motard SDO inspecting rooms at like 0200 and caught a fat nonrec on my last 6 months in but I was livid that this was a problem in the first place. It was probably the same company responsible for fixing the A/C that's being pissy about the power usage. Those bricks were literal prison. (French Creek 504 in Camp Lejeune) And they wonder why retention is so low? My new Marines thought this was indicative of the entire Corps and it really isn't because overseas they got shit done but stateside it's just so bogged down with bureaucratic bullshit and self sucking SNCOs that they all dropped their pack and just wanted to EAS in their first 2 years. It's a shame, really, and I'm sorry for Marines that have similar experiences as I did
@@josebatxu32 That's not a fair comparison because in Hell, you're at least aware that you don't have a choice, contrast that to military housing which offers the illusion that you may eventually get that decision of comfort.
First 14 years of my life were spent on Tinker AFB. It’s in Oklahoma. And I can tell you that was in the 80’s. And I learned how to fix military housing issues as a child, because of this wonderful situation! Thanks for making this video AC!
My educated guess is there are key people in oversight positions who either hand out the contracts, oversee the contracts, or both, who receive kickbacks in some form; for instance as having direct or family member stockholder shares. A classic case of foxes given contracts for watching the henhouse. The corruption is more than infuriating, its alarming in the sense of an existential threat to national security.
"... for instance as having direct or family member stockholder shares." Well you guys do it that obvious? While in Office? Where im from these People get places in "upper management" (i.e. high paying jobs for doing nothing) once their turns are over. So while in charge they can still say, without lying, "i have no contact to said Company"
@@kaitan4160 All of the above happen. The politicians' families & friends run the companies, and the high-level bureaucrats go to "work" for those companies after they've pushed enough paper for them in government.
@@kaitan4160 Well take a look at the overlap going on between the FDA and Big Pharma corporations. How many former FDA chiefs are now OPENLY on Pharma corps. payroll.? It's a snake pit/rats nest. The amount of corruption is quite obvious even at a cursory glance. Oversight committees are a spectacle that can only deceive the most naive of minds incapable of any critical thought at all.
I was put in a vulnerable situation it being my first PCS with my wife and daughter to an expensive area. We felt almost forced to sign our lease with Balfour Beatty. They waited until the end of our paperwork when signing for the house and said oh by the way here is an asbestos waiver and lead paint waiver. We felt like we had no other options. I feel preyed on honestly
same happened to me, the area isn't expensive, but I couldn't get my VA loan in time to move in to a place of my own when I first got here. 2 years later, still living in BBC housing, making the most of it and fixing 95% of issues myself to keep their shitty contractors out of my house.
"...it's almost like lower enlisted maybe make valid complaints..." The longer I am an NCO the truer I find this to be. Yes I know there are plenty of shammers, but there's so much more truth
Every document produced by a company with a contract with the federal government (that is relevant to that contract) IS a public record. You, the average citizen, can go to any of these companies and request said records. The companies are not allowed to put ANY impediments in your way, like requiring you to identify yourself, charging exorbitant fees (they can charge their costs for reproducing documents and such), or requiring you to get permission from some other person, filling out forms, etc. In fact if the documents are readily available, they HAVE to let you inspect them as soon as they can. I encourage everyone to carry out public records requests with every company that has business with federal and state governments.
My favorite was when I cleared base housing and the inspector signed off on everything being up to standard and then they tried to nail me for $20,000.00 in damages 6 months after I got out. I gave my clearing paperwork to a lawyer and never heard from base housing again.
One of the best critiques of just how bad our enlisted are treated. It reminds me of the video he did about the officer getting pissed he got assigned enlisted family housing for his family instead of officer housing.
I have a buddy who’s been waiting more than two years for his conditioning system to get fixed because it kept leaking water and blowing air and causing insane molding in his barracks room, causing him to be at a loss of over $400 worth of gear/uniforms/civilian clothes. After nearly 2.5 years of more than one visit, and just waiting and waiting, they FINALLY moved him to a new barracks room. He definitely wasn’t supposed to be in that room, and it definitely shouldn’t have had anyone living in it, especially since certain mold can be dangerous!
Wrote this somewher eelse already. My Guess would be that they dont have actual Craftsmen. Or at least not alot. Most "Repair Guys" are Handymans. Keeps the cost low. But also means the "skillset" needed isnt there. Because, why work for BBC with a wage that is laughable if the HVAC Company in Town pays 3 times as much? And to keep Cost low further .. the 20 Repair Gauys needed for Area X? Nah ... what if the Tickets arent enough to keep them working? 10 are enough. We all know thats how these Companys love to "work".
Was supposed to be put in a barracks room near my company but they were "only moving females" so here we are 2 months later still sharing a single room with another dude waiting for a room to clear up. Heard its gonna be at least 3 more months if not more.
@@7.62flavorsoffreedom2 that’s not good, I’m so sorry you guys are going through that! Hey! If you’re open to it, if you have social media or something to privately contact you with, I’d like to ask ya something.. hopefully it’ll help at least for a little bit 😅
I went in in the mid 80’s. Reminds me of the crap that we had to go through to clear post housing. Didn’t matter how clean your place was, if the “approved “ cleaning company didn’t do the cleaning you were not going to pass! Made my head spin…🤬🤬🤬
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Dr. Phil has gotten a lot angrier these days.
😂 😂 😂 😂
😂 that made my day 🤣
Ha ha ha ha
Nice freakin post. Classic.
Thank you for that!
Lmfao!!
He's not the hero we asked for, be he is definitely the hero we needed.
I want 5:59 to 6:01 on repeat for 10 seconds
says you He is what I asked for, for Christmas
@@KilurDragon ask and you shall receive th-cam.com/video/BItWliU6tc8/w-d-xo.html
Deserve doesn't cut it. Angry Cops for Secretary of Defense!!!
@@expeditionidentity892 It's not the AC video we wanted...it was the one we needed.
This shows how much AC really cares about enlisted men. The fact that the military let this company get away with this for so long is disgusting.
Even more disgusting is that they're letting this turd 💩💩💩 of a company to continue to support our military members and their families. These guys should have been thrown out on their asses and the whole system revamped. It's clear to me you need at least two levels of accountability to track repairs, one at the base level and one at the company level. The call for repair should start with the repair request going to base CE who then calls the 💩 repair company. Then, before any bonuses are paid the books are reconciled to verify the claim is legit.
Anyone that targets him on this will loose any political hopes in the future. His 1.7 Million = 1.7 Million Family's that vote. Fear lasts way longer than respect. Eat a D Politicians in uniform.
Kickbacks
Someone needs to look into it and see if someone in charge is friends or family with someone in the company.
@@FoxtrotFleet like KBR 2.0 lol
At this point it'd honestly be refreshing to find a single government contractor that WASN'T utterly corrupt and stealing taxpayer money to NOT do the job they were specifically contracted to do.
Right here. I even outperformed the baseline by at least billions of dollars. I priced the contract drastically, unbeatably, below the market value because it wasnt about the money. I wanted to help people and I just needed compensation for the time, risk and costs. Try to guess what happened... I was defrauded and have basically had my life ruined at the moment from John C Rogers ("lobbying" firm capstone national partners that openly advertises "fixer" and other services now). He is a former assistant vice undersecretary of defense appointed by Clinton despite losing the elections he was supposed to be running. He was in and out of the DoD appointment pretty quick too, try to figure out the reasons. Anyways a ton of stuff has happened despite literally making people billions of dollars that was clean, that John is fundamentally incapable of, while actually helping people (which John and Alex Rogers are definitely incapable of). My uncle was a Secretary of the Air Force. Bringing these types of soft hard "business" pretexted threats to light and at least trying to get somewhere as far as mitigation is real service. Threats foreign and domestic. A lot of these people arent even competently financially selfishly corrupt. Its sometimes not even about the money. They try to make it look like it is but its deeper and way more malicious than that... And or theyre literally THAT stupid that they cant even calculate risk adjusted returns, market verticles or expected values. Quite a lot of surveillance programs have been formally acknowledged at this point. How difficult do you think it is for somebody to detect this type of thing in our own literal military bases and housing? Alphabet, Meta, Amazon and more probably thoroughly knew and were sending targeted ads about it even. Whats an acceptable police response time to a priority call in Detroit and how can people think that we can handle anything more complex than something like this if the response isnt even acceptable in a civilian Detroit context? We need to step our performance way tf up.
@@toprandomvideos2123 the swamp is so deep at this point I don’t see any peaceful way out. They’re working on starving us to death, and people are still firmly in their own little worlds. We’ve made waist deep corruption a way of life.
@@BigBossIvan stopping John C Rogers capstone national partners and Alex Rogers, and correcting the damage theyve done would do a lot.
Sytek
They just make vertical shelfing units
We are always afraid we're gonna lose the contract but every other company that has tried has failed due to complacency in their own bases.
I mean it's basically monopoly money at this point right?
Let's be honest, all of us vets want Angry Cops to be the voice rep of the Army
I say the Military, clearly he has a brain for all the branches
AC for SEAC
i dont want him to be the voice i want him to be the f..... spear pocking all those corrupt officers asses out of their offices !
AB SO LUTELY!!! WHERE DO WE VOTE FOR THIS MAN!?!?!? LETS GO DRILL!!!!
Roger that shit
As a former Marine that was stationed in condemned buildings in Okinawa this doesn't surprise me a bit unfortunately
Ugh, people who haven't been there won't understand the amount of mold that builds up.
It just won't die!
Camp Lejeune was no better. We used to bleach and clean the BEQ with our own money just to get it fixed
I was AF, but I’ve been to those barracks in Oki, gawd damn, the fact that the Marines were alive, much less fully functioning blew my mind.
@@suigeneris4763 The one thing Marines can't kill is that dreaded black mold.
If you're not pissed, you're not paying attention. AC is definitely paying attention and I'm grateful that he is. Thanks for bringing this to all your viewers attention.
That is a great line. "If you're not pissed, you're not paying attention". Same could go for most companies or corporations. The SOP's of most companies are maddening.
Honestly these are the types of NCO’s that we need in our military. Those who care about their subordinates well being and get genuinely pissed when they see their guys getting fucked
actually you need officers to be this passionate. NCOs can't do much without being approved by the officer. unfortunately there are sooooo many silver spoon officers that it forces out all the good military personnel.
@@maximusgladi8or I’d say it’s both. Yeah officers can get more done but even that’s not completely true. I’ve seen an E-7 get more done than a butter bar
@@cjtyler01 yea but i have seen NCOs get blocked by a POS officer far more often. hence why the quality of NCOs has tanked.
I am Altus AFB and we have the "BBC" here and upper leadership loves to just look away and pretend nothing is wrong and ignore their Airman. So glad AC made a video about this. Keep up the good work!
Kickbacks. BBC makes a “campaign donation” I am sure
RIGHT!?!!!!
Altus AFB . Damn who's Bowl of Corn Flakes did you Piss in ???
@@glenobrien894 True or you can say "what you have a death wish!"
@@shelt4430 I was in the Army and Oklahoma Air National Guard . I was Stationed at Ft. Sill Oklahoma . I've been Through Altus a Couple of times . I feel for ya Bro I feel for ya . now I'm in Temple Texas . been in Texas for the Last 33 years. Love it here in Texas . our Governor Greg Abbott has told Biden and His Criminal Cronies TO SHOVE IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE.. 👍👍 👍
As someone who has been renting homes to servicemembers for the last 17 years, I'd like to thank base housing for being so awful.
Once I was allowed to move off base, I never looked back.
My (then) dependa fought me tooth and nail to move on base for a long time back when I was in. I tried telling them they didn't know what they were asking for...
Needless to say after I gave in, not even 3 months later they were begging to move back off.
Depending on the location there are some great private renters, unfortunately where I am now all the rentable houses are operated by American Homes 4 Rent which is a garbage company with serious breed restrictions, costs way more to rent than the BAH (thanks housing market) or are straight up slums. I vowed I would never move into base housing after spending a good chunk of my childhood living in it and hearing the horror stories of the neighbors and the housing company but I got so desperate that my wife and I will now be moving on base.
Actually when it was controlled by the military repairs were spot on though the drinking water left something to be desired on some bases but these companies came in and F#$k it all up. I remember hearing about how in a few short years the home we lived in after the company took over became super infested with black mold. Learned this from a lawsuit against them for health conditions which didn't happen before the companies took over that housing area.
Win-win eh?
I'm no veteran, but hearing about this, and hearing it explained as accurately as humanly possible, and it just being glossed over basically, is disgusting.
Yet depressingly unsurprising.
We’re subscribed to all the same sht
Someone is getting payed off to look the other way I bet.
my dad used to have a joke/truth on his desk (he was is a cpa) the joke was about paying the gov the same way the gov spends for his taxes when i saw the 6k for a fucking screw driver nothing suprised me anymore.
When I was in the Marines, a few times a year we did what was called a "Chinese field day" which is where you completely empty your barracks room and clean it top to bottom. Most of the time we were wearing gas masks and basically just throwing bleach everywhere. This was due to constant black mold issues that always came back. Replaced our mattresses once a year too. This was between 2008 and 2013. The barracks I lived in during that time have been condemned for about 5 years now according to a younger Marine who was stationed in the same unit.
Now see, this is why I got out of the military. The calm demeanor and infinite patience on display here is just more than I could ever muster.
All the enlisted personnel who have had entreated black mold in their housing should all file a lawsuit to this company.
It's not black mold, they call it "surface growth" and are not allowed to say mold unless it's tested and confirmed.
@Charles Crawford Grew up in Pacific Beach military housing, never remembered the house being shitty.
@@kvol1668 big facts.
@Charles Crawford BBC did the same fucking shit.
not me looking up at it right now
It’s surprising that the government will give them quarterly bonuses, but we got spoiled milk and rotten vegetables.
and during a pandamic we are screaming for money to live on but yet we dont have the money to do it.
I hate to break it to y'all but this is not surprising at all.
@@psychopompous3207 🤣
@@psychopompous3207 paid taxes.
This is the one thing that confused me with the military. The military is practically self sufficient (they don't grow food and they do buy components from outside) but it has virtually every profession that you can find in civilian life including plumbers and carpenters. But they have to use civilian contractors to perform repairs.
It's about post military service job security.
It is frustrating! In 2003 we went to Iraq and had Soldiers build barracks, provide water, cook food, do laundry (huge DoD owned machines) and everything you can need. In 2010, there were more contractors than Soldiers there. Their excuses are they dont have to pay benefits to contractors but it isnt like they got rid of those Soldiers..
wouldnt want your military men becoming super proficient in all the trades.. so it goes off into the world to be successful .. don't want that.. they want that Chi-com infected uselessness and mal-pathetacisms where there soy soldiers are all too limp wristed to fight black mold... and possibly because cnn will blare the us militarys racist as it removes Black from its housing.. later to be corrected in a unread article that comes out and says oh they removed black mold..
That’s the tip of the iceberg. They contract civilians, paying 4 times as much, for maintenance, security, housing, construction, and much much more.
@@Veteran_Aviator Public officials always help out their civilian buddies so that they can be on the board or invested or some other way involved when they retire from public service. The military is no different; it's just as full of bureaucrats as the rest of government.
As an AF Jr Enlisted that has lived on base with Belford Beauty, I greatly appreciate this video Rich. Over a year of complaints from myself going silent. Also my oven was old and barely worked, as in I couldn't get it up to temperature to cook. They told me "Well it turns on, so its not broken" I couldn't even cook a frozen pizza or brownies all the way without going another 20 minutes over the cook time
You're helping a lot of people by bringing these kinds of issues into the forefront.
Stay angry, AC, and thank you.
He's clearly a guy who's willing to use his platform to try and improve the place, which I think a lot of us appreciate
Let's be honest, this was the best possible ending and that's only because it was exposed through a private journalist. If it had been a "Military investigation" from the getgo then only Miriam would have been held accountable, and everything else would have been swept under the rug.
Bro the level of anger accurately represents the soldiers dealing with this shit. Thanks for doing this AC
Facts
This is a pinnacle video of why angry cops is the best
I lived in one of the “mold houses” managed by Balfour Beatty at Sheppard AFB, TX. They denied any of the mold or asbestos issues, yet my house is condemned to this day (2 years later). My neighbors saw in person them deleting work orders from their system so they could collect their end of year bonus. My family along with a lot of my close friends have had so many health and mental issues such as infertility and tumors developing. We never saw a penny from them or any accepting of wrongdoing. It was the worst experience of my life
Was there for tech school, dorms had mold issues and insect infestations. Vectrus was in charge of fixing all of this and they were obligated to fix it by 180 DAYS!!!! All of our NCO’s there hate that place to death.
@@buttkickerburner69 I can’t imagine many people who would like it there
@@buttkickerburner69 I have always called Sheppard the "arm pit" of America.
Sounds like a lawsuit to me
@@buttkickerburner69 I was there in 04 half our dorm was shut down because of mold so we had to be 3 to a room
Its almost like government contracts are just free money for people who have no intentions of actually fulfilling their obligations.
We've had a two mile stretch of road near where I live under construction for three years now.
And another intersection that was worked on for around the same time. Literally dudes show up, push some sand around. Stand around looking busy, then leave with nothing actually done.
AHEm spacex
@@weakestbutterscotchenjoyer what? You mean blue origin??
As long as they kick money back to the right D'RAT congress people, they have no obligations.
@@weakestbutterscotchenjoyer no they do shit
I worked for Balfour Beatty right out of school as a Project Engineer on commercial construction projects. It was one of the most toxic companies I ever worked for. Sadly, not even surprised about this.
What year our friend
They ran the housing on Ft. Carson and it showed
Currently transferring and the housing I just left had black mold, plenty of cockroaches, constant flooding from broken pipes or from toilet tanks overflowing, and confirmed asbestos in an entire wing. We had a log to report it but you only did that so you wouldnt be held accountable for breaking anything if you just moved in the room. I also used to be homeless and had a better living situation then this. Thanks AC for helping bring this to light.
I was like 500.
AC is a top notch NCO. Period. Glad there are still guys like you serving.
Too bad alot of them are comming up on ETS and they are not reupping. I dont blame them! The Army really started screwing up when they started promotions to E-5 before PLDC. I went to PLDC as an E-4. There is a marked difference between the 2 sets. If your an E-4 or above and cant conduct a PT session, your wrong!
Dr Phil was diagnosed with aids
"You cant afford diamonds that big priiiiiiiivate! alls you got is some skeeter wings. Make em' smaller! (hands ontop of eachother) There ya go priiiiivate!!! DOOOOOWWWNNNN!!!! "WHO TOLD YOU TO COME UP? DONT ANTICIPATE THE COMMAND!" UUUUUP!🤣🤣🤣 Hated my DS's back in the day. But love them now! Zero 💩 taken and zero fûçks given. "Dont thank me... thank your recruiter!"
If housing upset him this bad, he's gonna stroke out when he deals the nonsense of the V.A.
Hahaha he already has!
The VA seems to be be great in some areas but horrible in others.
Around here the VA is in Kerrville Texas and every vet I know that has gone there loves it. They seem to care and do what's right.
But I have family who deal with the VA in Florida, I think it's in Orlando and it's been nothing short of a steaming pile of crap.
While I'm sure the military makes it difficult for them all we really need to see internally at the individual facility's why some are so good and others so bad. It may be the fact this area of Texas has a lot of retired high ranking military including a admiral (who I can't stand) to lots of colonels including may she rest in peace one of my favorite people Lt colonel Vera Hoenig. She was a tell it like it 95 year old who fought to keep women in the military after the war ended.
She was quick to admit she got the best care possible from the VA due to her rank and career achievements but even lower ranking gets get good care at the Kerrville facility.
@@JamesSmullins Same with my experience in Salt Lake City. It's been great.
When Angry cop forgot his name three seconds after he said it that speaks to me as someone with ADHD
Air Force here, our privatized housing is indeed fucked. It's even worse than it should be because some of the IG staff is defending them to us during their feedback sessions where we're supposed to tell them our complaints.
Because as soon as they separate, they will join these companies as contractors.
Lol just show them this video at the next town hall and make sure the people are on your side to egg it on when they try to stop you 🤣
And your housing is still better than those of all the other branches.
Yeah I live in the Bs and AF is still doing leagues better than anyone else.
@@mikeschmidt4800 whinge some more
I'm willing to bet that there's some Government employee that is receiving kick backs for the 20 million. I'm also willing to bet that nobody will ever go to prison for this.
Three people have already, it was the area managers over the Tinker area.
Of course there is, and I guarantee they are all worthless civilians that work in the DOD.
@@herrschaftg35 exactly. No one of significance in the BBC at all. They took all the blame.
Nearly 100% chance, it can be as simple as paying for some dudes vacation.
@@herrschaftg35 civs and armchair officers
Holy shit. Even I got hot hearing this. How in the absolute fuck does that bbc still have a contract? I know military intelligence is a massive oxymoron but its going beyond stupid.
What can we say.. us Americans just can’t get enough of that BBC 🤷🏻♂️
Going beyond stupidity seams to be the norm now for the BS Olympics that is military leadership. Speaking from experience.
When I was in, I had an assignment where I worked with contracts and contractors. The reason why BCC still has a contract is that the government is bound to the contract, too, and there's probably whole sections the process and timeline for remedying deficiencies, and putting BBC on probation is step one, which already took enormous amounts of lawyers and paperwork. If you try to jump straight to step ten where they get terminated, they'll take you to court and win, because the government side of the arrangement almost never has its ducks in a row.
They still have a contract because of corruption and zero accountability.
I assume the company wasn’t fired because they didn’t want to go through the red tape of finding a new contractor
And absolutely nothing will change. Hell, they’re signing more contracts right now.
I think you are right, but I hope this video shakes some damn things up. Go A.C.
Exactly, when one lower enlisted fucks up there is collective punishment, but when many officers fuck up they just get a slap on the wrist. One of the many reasons I left, saw yes men, brown-nosers, and blue falcons getting their promotions while hard working effective individuals being passed over or forced out (including good officers that pissed off the chain of command by following it properly and reporting on shitty stuff going on).
@@nerofl89 Facts.......Same..Still pisses me off and I've been out for 10 years..I was AF and the amount of brown nosing and tattle telling that goes on is insane.. Teammates my ass
I was US Coast Guard and only stayed in Navy housing twice(Cape Cod Otis ANGB and then at Kittery, ME at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard)
I remember having to sign all kinds of waivers due to the amount of lead and other heavy metals in the soil and water on Otis.
I don’t recall anything bad in Kittery, other than worrying my son may come home with a spent nuclear fuel rod buried beneath the playground.
This all could be avoided if they didn’t go with the lowest bidding contractor and just went with whoever actually gets the work done.
Yea, but that would make sense wouldn’t it? And why would we ever do the sensible thing?
It more than that there is alot of payoffs and corruption.
For the military it should just be internal, sure mabey you have have some guys getting payed to sit around, but odds are it would cost less, and most people whould prefer that then this BS.
Not to mention the fact that if you are in the military you are gonna give more of a shot about fixing this stuff.
All government work is like this. There is also the things like minority contractors you are required to use even if the govt you're doing a job for acknowledges that the people you have to use won't actually do the work/won't do the work in a satisfactory manner.
Noooooo! How will gov admin get their sweet pay?
Its not the lowest bidder, it's the most connections. What AC explained is it's theives managed by thieves watching over theives
I believe this is the Angriest I’ve seen Angry Cops, and rightfully so. That is beyond infuriating and I really hope the right things get done to resolve it
The only thing that beats this is when the NY mayor said the national guard wasn't the military
ny mayor saying national guard wasn't in the military beats it, he actually started tearing up, angry cops that is
the only one i remember that beats this is when he went after the NYC mayor who said nat guard isn’t real military
i realize others had the same thought
Dude watch the stolen Valor video. That one made me angry
I paused the other video to come watch this, thank you for enlightening us Angry drill sergeant, :)
Dude, my BAH in San Diego for an apartment on base housing was around $2,000 a month for a shared condo. Those bastards wouldn't even let us control the air conditioning. Inside deals going on, and someone's silk pocket is getting bigger.
You got BAH for base housing?
I think he means his BAH was around $2k, and the company gets all your BAH if you live there, basically rent.
BAH in fort hood is 900 a month for single soldiers roughly
I use to work for a company that did a joint venture highway project with Balfour Beatty. BB stopped paying for their half of the materials, and then pulled out and left before the project was done
how does this company still exist?
@@AngryCops because they are using the lube on someone that likes it, while they go in dry on everyone else!
@@AngryCops Someone (or several someones) at the top of the company is a business buddy or family member of somebody (or several somebodies) in congress. Or there are quite a few congress critters who made boatloads of money investing in the company just before announcing that it had been given the contract in the early 2000s, and then selling it off just before the 2008-2009 crash.
My fucking god, this has got to be the first goddamn time I've heard of BBC has causing more harm than good by pulling out
When I was stationed in Germany in the 90s we were still living in Nazi youth barracks left over from WW2, our showers were open bays like basic training so you never have any privacy but the barracks were so horrible there's no way it could be legal to live like that in the US, some rooms were empty permanently because they were such bad condition. 3 MFING YEARS PROBATION FOR STEALING 20 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, it just shows money buys your way out of trouble while the rest of us get thrown in jail over bullshit.
Back here from the future, but uh, someone stole $100mil. Poor AC.
Anyone remember when the Army was in the "people business" and they had the Civilian Facility Engineers? All you did was call them and they'd come out (just about) immediately and fix whatever was wrong TO YOUR SATISFACTION and they were polite and professional, and they came with the proper parts.
I wa in in the late 90's through to 04 and frankly, no I did not see that at all. When I was at Ft. Hood, my ex and I at the time avoided living on post because of all the horror stories I heard and actually saw at my buddies' houses on post. It was a joke at the time that you didn't want to request on-post housing because the housing folks would do everything they could to keep you from saying there were already damages when you moved in, just so you would have to pay for them out of pocket.
Imagine how much money is wasted because of corruption. I'd say it's at least 80% of the budget.
I mean it was said in the video; 20 million
@@looinrims In this specific instance, it was $20M. This is one occasion on which the corruption was caught. You think this is the only leak in the US budget?
@@LetholdusKaspyr no one said it is
I think that blowing the whistle on this deserves a solid POB. If she hadn't done it, they would just have got to keep on defrauding your society
Unfortunately he hasn't blown the whistle on it. BBC was know to be a shitty company back in 2010 when I lived on Tinker and was being investigated for code violation while building houses on Tinker. It was all over the news for awhile but eventually disappeared. Money has a tendency to make problems disappear.
and this is the reason why i will never live in any base housing and will pay outside my BAH to buy a house at my duty stations.
When I was active duty instead of making those calls being tired of it many of us brought our own tools and fixed the problems. We kept the receipts and people were pissed.
Nice!!!
E1 pay makes it hard to afford to fix my bathtubs draining issues or the holes in the dry wall and cracked floor tiles...
When I was at Lackland AFB as a Red Hat, the smart higher ups combined all the CE units into the San Antonio Real Property Management Authority. When Safety condemned one of our marksmanship range covers, SARPMA wanted 30 grand to tear it down (which of course was not in the budget) and three months to replace it with a new one (another ten grand). One weekend, we Red Hats used a deuce-and-a-half and a chain to pull down the range cover, then swarmed over it with our own tools and took it apart and disposed of the wood in the impact area and then constructed a new range cover and delivered the receipts to the Group Commander. He was not happy but in the end got the money to cover the expenses (less than a grand).
Always remember, it’s only illegal if someone is willing to enforce it. There will also be no accountability until people demand it.
Yep!
When I was in Basic our barracks were being renovated, but the privates were doing the work while the construction company got paid for our work. And that was on top of all our other training. We tore up the tiles, removed doors, painted walls, laid no slip pads in the stairwells, and more for 6 weeks of our 8 weeks of Basic.
The saddest part of this all is that Balfour Beatty used to be a respected company that did decent work. They did a lot of big construction projects in the 1980s and 1990s that were highly respected and awarded. Somewhere around 2000, they did what happens to so many companies - they let it go to their head. They jumped on the War on Terror contractor bandwagon, quadrupled in size (or more) and were never held accountable.
Agreed dude. Worked as a subcontractor for them on the new(ish) Ft. Riley hospital. Couldn't get the expansion joints sealed up & the Army Corps of "Engineers" wouldn't sign off on it. Got hung up in litigation. Eventually most of the subs had to contact senators and congressmen to get paid in full...
@@kevinmackinder5862 That's a hot mess. This is all disgraceful!
Given the name of the company, one can only see in retrospect that the company would’ve given them the shaft
Gold
The fucking Red Baron🤣
Thank you for your take Mr Red Baron
What a legend 🤣
The 60 mill is prob honestly not enough, the health effects of black mold and all the other things the service men and families couldn’t control is definitely something that needs to be accounted for
At least now that they've been found guilty, the servicemembers and their families might be able to bring suit against BBC for health effects suffered as a result of negligence related to the fraudulent activity (maybe as a class action). The initial penalty, which as AC says is incredibly light, is hopefully only the tip of the potential iceberg that is future litigation against BBC.
As a military member living in the barracks, I'm SO tempted to just show this to my commander.
probably be easier to just burn them all down. When the leadership asks how everyone's belongings survived just say it was luck
This is why i think stuff like this needs to go back to being done by the military itself like it used to. If the seabees take too long to fix something or fuck up the fix its easier to keep enlisted members straight than contractors. Plus you know that money being stolen from the feds won't really be near as big of an issue if its all done in house.
SEABEEs actually care about their work .
3rd generation can confirm.
Fucking agreed!!!
Not only in the military though.
Industries needed for day-to-day business of a functioning country MUST NOT be privatized.
Don't know about the US but on my side of the big pond most of those industries like public transport, facilities (water, waste water, power, gas, garbage collection) etc. are privatized, and NOTHING WORKS. Those people don't work half the time they're supposed to.
Now just imagine for a moment they go bancrupt, what now? Sure, they have contracts, but who cares? Those services will be lost overnight and for the next three months everybody scrambles because nobody knows what the hell to do.
We can't let the functioning of a society be subject to the woes of private contractors. That's how you create third-world hellholes full of corruption and civil unrest.
@@LeBoomStudios completely agree. Private business has its place but not in profiting off the essentials of basic communal necessities. But yes here in the U.S. a good chunk of our politicians love pushing to privatize public programs
This is really disappointing. We should be treating military member better. Especially the lower enlisted. I love AC’s passion. Thought he was gonna blow a blood vessel
Drill's don't blow blood vessels....they only blow marriages. And smartly he is not married. He will die like all SNCOs that don't die in combat...of age, alcohol, and stress. It is the natural order.
Is not just about treating military good. It’s a contract and nothing happens to the fuckers at the top.
@@chocbear8394 I know. But it’s still disappointing
@@Wpns175 he has a wife
@@garrettprepetit7026 Didn't know...
Angry cops always makes my day better when he uploads.
His anger releaves my anger
@@colegregory8298 yes, exactly.
Cheers to your health, Double Cheers for A.C.
He didn't upload, as much as UNLOAD. We need a "fuck" counter on this one. Could be a record.
You mean UNLOADS.
This is even worse than my dorm room and showers in community college! We need to treat our lower enlisted better.
My aunt told me that when her ex-husband was in the Navy, she fixed everything in their base house herself. She would borrow tools from neighbors or hardware stores. What she didn't know how to fix, she'd call my grandpa and he would give her step-by-step instructions on it. This was in the 90s.
I've heard of this the problem is those piss ants don't like when you do their job for them if the can cause trouble for someone like your aunt they will
@@kirbyjohnson3756 I don't think my aunt ever told them about what needed to be fixed. And this happened well over 20 years ago.
I Live in BBC housing at Kings Bay Base, GA. I refuse to not fix stuff myself unless it will cost me an arm and a leg to do so. I'm not going to have someone else come in my house and do a worse job fixing something than what I could do myself.
Army Vet here, I helped shut down and tear down barracks that were screwed. I also live outside Tinker AFB, in Central Oklahoma. Lots of soldiers complained about the post housing here and In 9 years, I never heard a positive thing about BBC or on post housing, not even from the officers.
Hello, fellow Okie. Moore here.
Everybody is getting a kickback...meanwhile all our military service members are getting is KICKED! I know this goes to the top and their desire to get further employment after their "career" in the military is over and that is absolutely shameful!
AC is looking out for soldiers...keep it going!!!
Maybe we should use those Optics to demand accountability from those who need to be held accountable.
I like this
Demands do nothing, a corrupt governmental entity will never hold themselves accountable.
Citizens need to be the force behind the accountability. A demand without repercussion or ultimatum with a price for their unwillingness to comply, is merely a noise to people with power and no regard for their constituents.
A demand with peaceful intent, yet repercussion and ultimatum for failure to meet said demands for failure to comply to accountability, is what will get heads rolling and feet over flames... But you also have to have the willingness to execute the repercussions of ultimatum if they decide to consider it a "bluff".
They wanted to charge me $2500.00 when I moved out of base housing in Travis AFB because I didn't use their "preferred" carpet cleaning service. Carpet cleaning is a requirement to move out. I found one who would carpet clean for $300.00 they wanted me to use one that was $700.00!!! Said I violated the agreement and wanted to charge me $2500.00!
Where is the leadership, who is supposed to protect their troops from flippant abuse like this?
You say they wanted to charge you a butt load of money.... How did this situation get resolved?
@@williamhensley8698 You say F off and get out lol
@@lawoftheland5923 You'd think that, but nearly all of your BAH goes to these companies as rent, and they have direct lines to paychecks for garnishments. Failure to pay a debt is punishable under the UCMJ. So the the service member is stuck between a rock, a hard place, and a green weenie.
I agreed to pay the "fine" IF and ONLY IF they could find damage (not damage that was already there that I documented when I moved in) associated with the carpet cleaning, which they were not able to find any. My command did get involved and came in during the inspection and told them to F off as the carpets were cleaned as required and it shouldn't matter what company did it. That was my last day in the USAF.
I can just imagine Chip Roy playing this video to an empty session of congress.
tag that SOB in this video and have him do it
@JustMyThoughts Thank you, from someone who doesn't know how to tag or what it even means.
Chip Roy is on Twitter. Everybody send him the link to this so he can show it to Congress himself.
I have watched this video more than 3 times while grading my students' exams. I can't get enough of it. If TH-cam had an OSCARS this man definetly deserves one. Brilliant! Brilliant!
This is why the people that pay attention to how corrupt the govt is, will never ever trust them with anything. This is how they treat soldiers, this is the level of respect they have for people trained to kill and well armed. How much respect do you suppose they have for the average citizen? Do you think they really need the next debt celling limit raised? Do they deserve it? Have they earned it?
You get the government you deserve.
I wouldn't mess with someone who can delete me from a distance of 400 yards with a M16 or up close with a knife. I wonder if this housing management company ever thought about who they are dealing with.
This is just sad. When I was in Balfour Beatty Communities LLC took care of my family and the base housing we lived in. I never had any complaints. Now to see what a garbage company they turned into (or what they apparently always were) makes me sick. I cannot believe I supported such a horrible company. I hope this gets fixed and our Service Members are better taken care of.
Imagine how angry AC would have seemed if he hadn't worn his red shirt. That shit almost looked stark white compared to his face.
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2 years later: military tells soldiers its their fault
If this doesn't paint the perfect picture of "government" and how it works, I don't know what does.
In all fairness the leaving 20 billion dlrs worth of aircraft, artillery and who knows what in the hands of the same fkn people we been fighting for the last how ever many yrs . Who ever thought that was a good idea should've been swallowed!!!!
You speaking truth. The even handed out covid money without verifying what was being done with it. They sure was on top of it after it was already sent to the countries of the ones stealing it.
@@briscoesjug1026 89 Billion dollars.
And there are people out there who want to hand the government MORE power and control over daily individual lives and mandate MORE shit to "protect" people...
Those people just deserve the fucking bullet.
@@briscoesjug1026
Ah, more like $86 Billion...
@@woebringer7884 I believe it sounds about right lol
It's troubling how little integrity there is at the top. The only reason that company isn't canned and only on 3 year probation is because alot of people up the chain of command were privy to what was going on and probably pocketed some money. Absolutely disgusting. Makes you wonder why even pay taxes or any kind of ticket/ permit when the guys at the too are straight up stealing from you.
Can't even make the decision to not pay taxes, they take the shit out of your paycheck before you even see it.
Makes you see how much Lt Col Scheller was on to something when he started demanding senior leaders get held accountable. It applies to a lot more than the shit-show of a withdrawal out of Afghanistan.
That's because to reach the top. you have to play their political games.
Back in 90s, I was in army, and new PT uniforms were adopted and AR 670-2 FORBADE mixing and matching the old and new uniforms-turns out, the company that got the contract for the new uniforms was owned by wife of a senior SGM!
As a former enlisted, thank you for looking out for the troops when leadership isn't.
Sadly a lot of these housing companies are super shady. I know of places where they actually put into there housing contracts that they don't have to honor the SCRA and that service members aren't allowed to video, photo, and post any issues of their housing publicly (social media). Absolutely disgusting.
This is one of the reasons that I didn't get along so well with some of my fellow officers. I got absolutely LAMBASTED for trying to get one of my PFCs checked in to a DoD substance abuse facility instead of just administratively stiff-arming the guy.
I am with Rich on this one.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. The negligence 110% spreads to other areas
Run for office. You would do far better in charge of this kind of crap then any of the cronies that are there now
I'd pay good money to see a spit slinging, knife hand waving, dress down on the floor of congress.
They would suicide him
He wouldn't last a year in office, Deep state would have him railroaded, set up and out of office in the blink of an eye.
He's due to get JFK'd if he ran for office with the way our shit ass government works
If voting mattered they wouldnt let us do it! You gotta be mega rich in the first place and you gotta have family or family connections. Go into politics if you think anyone good makes it. Turn your TV off and start critical,y thinking....
My favorite part of this is reading the title, knowing exactly how much Angry has to unpack on this without even clicking on the video.
We had 1 Marine responsible for fixing shit that broke in the barracks. His tools? 1 wrench. His experience? None. Absolutely fucking no knowledge of what to do. None.
I was in Air Force Civil Engineering Units for 20 years. These units used to be in charge on AF basses to fix military housing both dorms and family housing. The main reason the military went to a contractor to maintain these living quarters is that new housing would have to be approved by Congress through the appropriations committees for each branch. To get approval for new housing the designs would have to be completed along with costs and all the other BS that is needed. Then all the individual branches would submit their packages where they would be racked and stacked by priority or how much complaining was done. If they got approved they would be slated to be paid out of a future years budget. Ultimately your designs and plans could be 5-10 years old before they got funded and by then housing had to be built to a standard that did not meet current building codes. What these companies did should void their contracts but they would just change their name and get the contract again for 50 years. That’s right some AF installations leased the land to the contractor for 50 YEARS!!! Not sure who got paid in that one.
FUCK. why the hell would you lease something for that long. there should be some sort of, i dont know, system to check them to make sure they are not fucking up every so often. then if they are they get the boot, pay fines/ fees and so forth. i dont know like a test/inspection done on all base housing, not select ones that will pass, maybe the ones bitching about stuff. god that sounds fucking awful all around.
You just know there are politicians at the ends of these contracts.
@@teaiwen3174 my good sir, have you ever heard of our politicians doing anything right, legal, or ethical?
If I had to hazard a guess : Pentagon 1670 Air Force, Washington DC, 20330-1670 . Someone in or near that location.
This has been going on since 1976 that I'm personally aware of. Grew up on Norton AFB in San Bernardino (That's no longer there) and my grandfather was kicked out of the plumbing union for makeing noise about the absolute crapshow that was the excuse for plumbing in base housing
Videos like this are why you are so respected AC. It’s nice to know someone is so passionate about the issues of his people. Keep on doing what you do best
Geee. I have no idea why people do bad things in order to get money. The punishments vs how much they make are so harsh. It is almost like they are incentivizing people to be dishonorable.
We need to bring real punishments back. Eye for an eye.
You just described the entirety of government.
@@theaux1168 sure. Go vote harder normie. I'm sure we can fix everything. I'm glad you have it all figured out. Now I can look forward to a great future instead of one that resembles a post apocalyptic fever dream. 🤗. I'm sure not holding people accountable for being dishonest could never possibly go wrong. Look at the utopia that participation trophies has brought us!!
@@theaux1168 No, that's not capitalism. Capitalism isnt about stealing money. You have it twisted dude.
@@theaux1168 oh ok. Since everyone is doing it we should totally just keep going with it. Let's not hold people accountable and incentivize corruption. I don't see how that could possibly go wrong. It's been working so far right? Utopia has arrived?
Air Force level griping here…6 years with no heat or a/c in our maintenance building. I’m not surprised.
Finally the new boss in charge contacted local companies and bypassed CE.
As someone is property management this pisses me off especially because they are treating service men like this
The saddest part is it wont change. Stationed on fort good currently and the barracks here are horrible. There's holes in walls and broken shit everywhere. Bath tubes drain too slow so water just pools, floor tiling is cracked, nails hang out of the walls. If that's not bad enough were forced to share single rooms with other soldiers for how ever long you get stationed here. Beds in the same room, share everything. It's pretty shitty. Lord knows I'm not signing another contract.
@@7.62flavorsoffreedom2 it’s sad and they wonder why no one wants to enlist unless it’s their last resort
I'm living in one of those asbestos barracks in Fort Gordon right now. Got asbestos warning signs stuck on doors throughout the building. "shrug"
Scammers are lame. But why are we subcontracting this crap out? We cant have some private be a plumber show up and fix it? Oh wait. cant give out kickbacks to all your politician pals that way.
Exactly! Plumbers rule Sh*t rolls down hill and pay day is on Friday
The Air Force has entire AFSCs (career fields) in Civil Engineering specifically for this. It's 100% on politicians needing to keep their donors happy.
I feel these kind of issues ie. badly managed subcontracting in government spending SHOULD be an issue that can be fixed by starting accountable in-house services, but the issue is anyone willing to promote the idea will be both fighting the other votes who are currently benefiting from dodgy contract bidding systems and also trying to sell theinitial investment needed to appoint , for example, a head of in house plumbing, ops managers , line managers and trained contractors with all associated admin.
This right here. This is why I follow AC. Glad to see him acting how a normal person would and SHOULD react to this kind of fraud.
This has me VERY HEATED! From 2015 until 2020, my entire contract, I lived in barracks with black mold, no air conditioning, broken fridges, cockroach infestations, no hot water, and one time we had no power for 30 FUCKING DAYS! Only time I had good bricks were in Okinawa where we only had roaches. In Lejeune it would take them on average 2-4 months to fix most things I mentioned with the exception of literal burst pipes that flooded the building, it only took them 2 days on that. Our building in Lejeune had an elevator that was broken the whole 2 years I was there. And for some fucking reason they'd come through and fix everything in a week when the colonel and sergeant major announce a walkthrough, including the elevator and A/C, but it'd be broken again in less than a week. God forbid the top notices disrepair on their once yearly walkthrough of the barracks. If you put in a help ticket for something that's broke, chances are if it wasn't a light bulb, it'd be broken in a week after they finally fix it anyways. We figured it's because they're trying to milk money from the help requests, but it was infuriating. When a few rooms didn't have power for 30 days, we kept a board with tallies on it that's labeled "days without power". We complained to the barracks manager, who said he complained to the company guns, and gunny said their hands were tied because they already complained to the company that fixes shit and the company told them to wait. 30 fucking days later, I went over all of their heads and went to sergeant major (widely regarded as a no-no for a regular NCO despite every one of them saying they have the open door policy) and said the company is dragging their feet, and wouldn't ya fucking know, he went to the bricks, saw our dark rooms and our board with 30 tallies on it, got pissed, blasted everybody (including me for going over their heads and a marine with a rebel flag in their room), and they got the power fixed a day later because somebody with some weight on their collar stepped in. I got a page 11 for that one by my SNCOIC because I made the whole command look like shit but if that's what it fucking took to get my Marines and I our goddamn power back then sure I'll take it.
One more thing... Since we had no air conditioning for most of both summers, a couple of us got portable A/C units because the Carolina summer is HOT and not only would it make sleep impossible, it would make our only sanctuary from the bullshit so uncomfortable it sucked to be there. We got a notice from whoever is in charge of the power for the building that we're using too much power, and to remove the air conditioners immediately. We were told to remove them or get paperwork, so most of us did, but my rebellious ass plugged it in after 1700 when most staff fucked off and it worked great. I got caught eventually by a motard SDO inspecting rooms at like 0200 and caught a fat nonrec on my last 6 months in but I was livid that this was a problem in the first place. It was probably the same company responsible for fixing the A/C that's being pissy about the power usage. Those bricks were literal prison. (French Creek 504 in Camp Lejeune) And they wonder why retention is so low? My new Marines thought this was indicative of the entire Corps and it really isn't because overseas they got shit done but stateside it's just so bogged down with bureaucratic bullshit and self sucking SNCOs that they all dropped their pack and just wanted to EAS in their first 2 years. It's a shame, really, and I'm sorry for Marines that have similar experiences as I did
Holy shit that actually sounds like the 10th ring of hell
Good on you for taking one for your guys. … “self sucking SNCO” lol! almost read your post in AC voice
@@josebatxu32 That's not a fair comparison because in Hell, you're at least aware that you don't have a choice, contrast that to military housing which offers the illusion that you may eventually get that decision of comfort.
This is the type of leader we need.
First 14 years of my life were spent on Tinker AFB. It’s in Oklahoma. And I can tell you that was in the 80’s. And I learned how to fix military housing issues as a child, because of this wonderful situation! Thanks for making this video AC!
My educated guess is there are key people in oversight positions who either hand out the contracts, oversee the contracts, or both, who receive kickbacks in some form; for instance as having direct or family member stockholder shares. A classic case of foxes given contracts for watching the henhouse. The corruption is more than infuriating, its alarming in the sense of an existential threat to national security.
Lobbying and yes bureaucracy
"... for instance as having direct or family member stockholder shares."
Well you guys do it that obvious? While in Office?
Where im from these People get places in "upper management" (i.e. high paying jobs for doing nothing) once their turns are over.
So while in charge they can still say, without lying, "i have no contact to said Company"
@@kaitan4160 All of the above happen. The politicians' families & friends run the companies, and the high-level bureaucrats go to "work" for those companies after they've pushed enough paper for them in government.
@@kaitan4160 Well take a look at the overlap going on between the FDA and Big Pharma corporations. How many former FDA chiefs are now OPENLY on Pharma corps. payroll.? It's a snake pit/rats nest. The amount of corruption is quite obvious even at a cursory glance. Oversight committees are a spectacle that can only deceive the most naive of minds incapable of any critical thought at all.
Well...y'all don't want to do shit about it so..what do you expect
It's the same with the third-party contractors who do the VA Claims appointments. No oversight, even when the mismanagement &fraud is well documented.
I was put in a vulnerable situation it being my first PCS with my wife and daughter to an expensive area. We felt almost forced to sign our lease with Balfour Beatty. They waited until the end of our paperwork when signing for the house and said oh by the way here is an asbestos waiver and lead paint waiver. We felt like we had no other options. I feel preyed on honestly
That's because you were.
same happened to me, the area isn't expensive, but I couldn't get my VA loan in time to move in to a place of my own when I first got here. 2 years later, still living in BBC housing, making the most of it and fixing 95% of issues myself to keep their shitty contractors out of my house.
"...it's almost like lower enlisted maybe make valid complaints..."
The longer I am an NCO the truer I find this to be. Yes I know there are plenty of shammers, but there's so much more truth
Every document produced by a company with a contract with the federal government (that is relevant to that contract) IS a public record. You, the average citizen, can go to any of these companies and request said records. The companies are not allowed to put ANY impediments in your way, like requiring you to identify yourself, charging exorbitant fees (they can charge their costs for reproducing documents and such), or requiring you to get permission from some other person, filling out forms, etc. In fact if the documents are readily available, they HAVE to let you inspect them as soon as they can. I encourage everyone to carry out public records requests with every company that has business with federal and state governments.
Appreciate this knowledge. Thank you.
The last few minutes of this video put me back in the military and remembering how shitty our leadership is. It’s so fucked and beyond repair.
My favorite was when I cleared base housing and the inspector signed off on everything being up to standard and then they tried to nail me for $20,000.00 in damages 6 months after I got out. I gave my clearing paperwork to a lawyer and never heard from base housing again.
One of the best critiques of just how bad our enlisted are treated. It reminds me of the video he did about the officer getting pissed he got assigned enlisted family housing for his family instead of officer housing.
I have a buddy who’s been waiting more than two years for his conditioning system to get fixed because it kept leaking water and blowing air and causing insane molding in his barracks room, causing him to be at a loss of over $400 worth of gear/uniforms/civilian clothes. After nearly 2.5 years of more than one visit, and just waiting and waiting, they FINALLY moved him to a new barracks room. He definitely wasn’t supposed to be in that room, and it definitely shouldn’t have had anyone living in it, especially since certain mold can be dangerous!
Wrote this somewher eelse already.
My Guess would be that they dont have actual Craftsmen. Or at least not alot. Most "Repair Guys" are Handymans.
Keeps the cost low. But also means the "skillset" needed isnt there. Because, why work for BBC with a wage that is laughable if the HVAC Company in Town pays 3 times as much?
And to keep Cost low further .. the 20 Repair Gauys needed for Area X? Nah ... what if the Tickets arent enough to keep them working? 10 are enough.
We all know thats how these Companys love to "work".
Was supposed to be put in a barracks room near my company but they were "only moving females" so here we are 2 months later still sharing a single room with another dude waiting for a room to clear up. Heard its gonna be at least 3 more months if not more.
@@7.62flavorsoffreedom2 that sucks man, sounds so fuckin frustratin!
@@the.bandit77 is what it is I guess. Still got 3 years on my contract and my buddies are going thru the same shit
@@7.62flavorsoffreedom2 that’s not good, I’m so sorry you guys are going through that! Hey! If you’re open to it, if you have social media or something to privately contact you with, I’d like to ask ya something.. hopefully it’ll help at least for a little bit 😅
I went in in the mid 80’s. Reminds me of the crap that we had to go through to clear post housing. Didn’t matter how clean your place was, if the “approved “ cleaning company didn’t do the cleaning you were not going to pass! Made my head spin…🤬🤬🤬
Love that shift into sponsorship without skipping a beat or losing the heat 👏👏
The fine art of sponsorship shift. (pat on the back) A.C.
Good Job
Good Job
Good Job
6:08-6:18...My God, I felt like I was watching myself in a rant...glorious. This was the best, AND totally righteous as well.
The fact you continue to re-enlist into this fuckery either speaks to your passion for service or self harm. Maybe a bit of both? Good job *pat pat*
A lot of veterans & active duty secretly love the abuse.... Speaking from first hand experience 😂
@@ManetInAEternum too true, I miss my little E4 mafia crew
I think he's a reservist so he doesn't have to put up with it full time. Plus at 17 years in he's only got a few more to get his pension.
20 years gets you more retirement benefits so I’m guessing he’s going for it poor AC
Everyone that joins the military is slightly masochistic, but we will lie about it though.