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Housing Improvements
On Post
05/09/08 MRC/AP
Not everything at Fort
Knox shines like gold.
A few of the house units
have problems, including mold growing near the showers,
but officials at the central Kentucky base say they're
working to resolve those issues.
Army barracks around the
United States are under scrutiny after a man posted a
video on the Internet showing the unsanitary conditions to
which his son arrived at Fort Bragg after returning from
Afghanistan.
The video showed mold,
peeling paint and broken plumbing fixtures in the Korean
War-era barracks.
The main housing problems
at Fort Knox, home of the Unites States' gold repository,
have been in three barracks built in the 1950s, which are
used to house soldiers during basic training, said
spokesman Ryan Brus.
Ventilation is a problem
in some buildings, said Army National Guard Pvt. Chris
Daugherty, who was heading home to Shreveport, Louisiana
after completing combined basic training and advanced
individual training at Fort Knox.
The post is working on
improving air quality in base housing, according to a
statement from spokesman Pat Walsh.
The barracks with
problems are scheduled to be demolished in three years as
Fort Knox prepares to house a war fighting unit scheduled
to arrive in the summer of 2009 according to Brus.
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