{"id":35958,"date":"2022-02-09T18:25:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T18:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/02\/09\/hellish-walter-reed-base-barracks-now-in-congress-sights\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:52:57","slug":"hellish-walter-reed-base-barracks-now-in-congress-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2022\/02\/09\/hellish-walter-reed-base-barracks-now-in-congress-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellish Walter Reed base barracks now in Congress\u2019 sights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House Armed Services Committee has requested more information from the Navy regarding substandard living conditions at barracks aboard the Maryland base that houses the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/02\/04\/no-hot-water-ac-or-doors-with-locks-for-junior-troops-forced-to-live-in-hellish-walter-reed-base-barracks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Reed National Military Medical Center<\/a> and lawmakers are considering holding hearings on the issue, according to a congressional source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move by lawmakers follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/02\/04\/no-hot-water-ac-or-doors-with-locks-for-junior-troops-forced-to-live-in-hellish-walter-reed-base-barracks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Navy Times investigation<\/a> Friday which for the first time exposed how hundreds of junior service members have for years lived without hot water and other basic creature comforts aboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day after the Navy Times report published, Navy leadership moved more than 350 troops out of hot water-less rooms in Comfort and Sanctuary halls and into hotels until the problems are fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of those troops are Navy corpsmen, medical personnel who work at the sprawling Walter Reed medical complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rear Adm. Michael Steffen, the commandant of Naval District Washington, made a \u201csurprise visit\u201d to the barracks on Saturday to listen to the concerns of residents there.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/02\/05\/no-hot-water-ac-or-doors-with-locks-for-junior-troops-forced-to-live-in-hellish-walter-reed-base-barracks\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18331752474170-2.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">No hot water, A\/C or doors with locks for junior troops forced to live in hellish Walter Reed base barracks<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The problems aboard Naval Support Activity Bethesda have been going on for years, young sailors and soldiers say.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steffen\u2019s spokesman, Edward Zeigler, said Wednesday that, \u201cat this time, RDML Steffen has not been invited to participate in any hearings,\u201d but that Steffen will be briefing congressional staffers on the issues this Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If lawmakers do hold hearings about the conditions at Sanctuary and Comfort halls, they would likely have several avenues of inquiry to ask Navy brass about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to years with no hot water, troops in those barracks have also grappled with a lack of air conditioning during the muggy mid-Atlantic summer months and broken locks on their room doors, which has raised safety concerns among some women assigned to the coed barracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI already work super-long hours in a high-demand clinic with a huge patient volume,\u201d one affected Navy corpsman told Navy Times last week. \u201cWe\u2019ve been short-staffed for a long time and there\u2019s no telework for us. It sucks to have to grit your teeth through a cold shower and go back to the grind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other corpsmen raised concerns about being able to get properly clean without hot showers during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not new to living standards in the military,\u201d one corpsman said. \u201cI\u2019m a military kid and I lived in base housing, but this is just ridiculous. We\u2019re not in the field and we\u2019re not on a ship. There\u2019s no viable reason as to why we should be forced to live without the basic qualities of life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the hot water issues have been on the Navy\u2019s radar for years, Capt. Scott Switzer, NSA Bethesda\u2019s commanding officer, told a town hall meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The issues there precede Switzer, who took command of the base in May 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Switzer\u2019s spokesman, Jeremy Brooks, told Navy Times Wednesday that his boss has not been contacted about testifying before Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Left unsaid at the townhall was why these issues were allowed to fester for so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comfort Hall was built in 1986, while Sanctuary Hall \u201copened to occupants\u201d in 2014, according to base spokesman Jeremy Brooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/02\/07\/young-sailors-and-soldiers-are-moved-out-of-hot-water-less-walter-reed-base-barracks\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18331752474170.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Young sailors and soldiers are moved out of hot water-less Walter Reed base barracks<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The move came a day after a Navy Times investigation exposed how troops in the affected buildings had been living without basic creature comforts for years.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy has been trying to fix Sanctuary Hall\u2019s hot water issues since 2015, Switzer said at the town hall, meaning that an untold number of mostly lower-ranking troops have likely suffered through a lack of hot water there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work required for that building involves replacing a temperature control valve and those repairs are expected to be completed in a few weeks. New parts for the temperature control valve have also been ordered, the Navy said in a statement following Navy Times\u2019 investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But two days before, during the town hall, Switzer said he wasn\u2019t sure if the valve needed to solve Sanctuary\u2019s problems was in stock, according to a recording of the event obtained by Navy Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One sailor said at the townhall that they were given similar excuses in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe kind of got the runaround and we were told that a part was ordered, we\u2019re waiting on a part,\u201d the sailor said of previous townhalls. \u201cSo, it just feels like we\u2019re kind of gaslighted in a way. We got the part coming, then it\u2019s a year later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comfort Hall is decades-old and was built without an upper hot water loop, meaning the third and fourth floors don\u2019t have hot water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fixing that will require crews to cut all water to the building for five days, Switzer said at the townhall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat system, when it was designed, it wasn\u2019t built the way it was designed,\u201d Switzer said. \u201cWe\u2019re kind of trying to fix it right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before publication of the Navy Times investigation, Switzer told troops at the townhall that the base was figuring out how to help junior troops live through nearly a week without any water in their barracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIs there a plan of action for how the 300 or so corpsmen are supposed to live with this?\u201d one attendee asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re trying to formulate a decent way to make this at least livable,\u201d Switzer replied. \u201cI\u2019m not going to say good, because it\u2019s not going to be good. But we\u2019re going to do the best we can to make it a less-odious time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Correction: an earlier version of this article misstated the year Comfort Hall was built due to erroneous information provided by the Navy. It was built in 1986.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NDW Commandant RDML Michael Steffen paid a surprise visit on Sat, Feb. 5 to NSAB Bldg. 64 to speak with residents about concerns raised during recent town halls. 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