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Investigators warned that these conditions risk undermining the military\u2019s readiness and morale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GAO officials visited barracks at ten different military installations and analyzed service member housing satisfaction data dating back to 2019. They found that \u201csome military barracks do not meet DOD minimum standards for assignment or occupancy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe observed and military service members and officials told us that living conditions in some barracks pose potentially serious risks to health and safety and that not all barracks meet minimum privacy and configuration standards,\u201d they note in their report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Service members at five of the ten installations reported regular water issues; four installations reported broken or malfunctioning fire safety infrastructure. All ten reported mold infestations and \u201cbroken, malfunctioning, or non-existent heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators also documented broken door locks and first-floor windows at three installations. They observed \u201cinsufficient lighting, vacant units occupied by unauthorized personnel, or no existing or working security cameras\u201d at seven installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maintenance teams tend to be slow or unresponsive. GAO officials found that some installations require residents to take care of quality-of-life issues themselves. According to the report, officials at one installation said service members are responsible for cleaning up the \u201cbiological waste\u201d that might stain a room after a suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt takes longer than a month, sometimes three months, for maintenance to come and check out an issue,\u201d one resident told investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some barracks are faulty by design, according to the report. DOD housing standards mandate that troops living in units without a living room should each have a private bedroom and share a bathroom with no more than one other person. Room layouts at six installations violate these guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Service members told GAO officials that the condition of these living spaces worsen the mental and physical health of their residents. Officials and troops also stressed that poor living standards disincentivize reenlistment and scare away prospective enlistees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cService members consider leaving the military because they are miserable [in barracks],\u201d one senior enlisted member told investigators. \u201cThey want to control how they live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite an abundance of complaints and billions of dollars allocated toward \u201cfacility sustainment,\u201d the Pentagon has struggled to bring barracks up to par.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators note that DOD has deferred $137 billion in installation maintenance costs as of 2020. Much of the money that has trickled through is pipelined towards \u201cmission-critical facilities,\u201d leaving barracks by the wayside. When pressed by GAO officials to detail how much sustainment funding would be dedicated to barracks renovations, DOD officials struggled to provide specific estimates, investigators added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report also faults the defense department\u2019s \u201cunreliable\u201d system for assessing the quality of life on installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military assigns facilities a \u201ccondition score\u201d from 0 (worst) to 100 (best). Investigators discovered that a number of barracks with condition scores above 80 needed \u201csignificant improvement.\u201d Officials at one installation described the barracks as \u201cuninhabitable,\u201d even though its condition score passed 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GAO recommended that the DOD conduct more thorough and frequent assessments of its barracks to keep tabs on conditions. 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