Housing Company SCAMS Military out of 20 MILLION
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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The Balfour Beatty Communities LLC has been forced to pay 60 million dollars back to the US Military. During 2013-2019 the BBC stole 20 million dollars from the U.S. Government by altering repair records for military base housing. By changing these records the BBC was able to fraudulently receive bonuses for completing repair requests in a shorter time periods than required. Where is the leadership? Why did this take 6 years?
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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 ua-cam.com/video/BItWliU6tc8/v-deo.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.
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'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.
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
Bro the level of anger accurately represents the soldiers dealing with this shit. Thanks for doing this AC
Facts
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
The high blood pressure in this video is contagious and I'm not even in the military.
It's almost like someone spilled your propane huh lol
Legendary lol
I just used the concentrated heat of this clip to poach 3 eggs.
I'm not even american and this pisses me off.
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
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.
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.
Always remember, it’s only illegal if someone is willing to enforce it. There will also be no accountability until people demand it.
Yep!
"...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
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 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.. 👍👍 👍
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).
I have watched this video more than 3 times while grading my students' exams. I can't get enough of it. If UA-cam had an OSCARS this man definetly deserves one. Brilliant! Brilliant!
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.
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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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...
Lived in the dorms for 1 1/2 on Tinker. It took them over 3 weeks to fix a sink and we never got a new vacuum. This makes so much more sense why.
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!
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.
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.
AC, I’m active duty Navy and was stationed at FE Warren.
The absolute horror stories about BBC on base are astounding and obviously VERY real.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
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".
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!
So fun fact, I PCS to APG in August and I got welcome letter from someone in Balfour Beatty. What's even better is I was listening to this video as I looked over the email.
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.
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.
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.
This is even worse than my dorm room and showers in community college! We need to treat our lower enlisted better.
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.
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.
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.
the USMC base in Hawaii still has contaminated water in the sinks, bullet holes in the walls, and AC chemical leaks in the public rooms. This shit will NEVER change.
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…🤬🤬🤬
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.
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?
Out of 14 years of back to back service and 9 different bases in the Air Force & Army, Fort Bliss has the worst housing department.
As a former enlisted, thank you for looking out for the troops when leadership isn't.
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
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.
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.
I'm not military, but I own and run my own small construction business, including a handyman service. I get calls at 3am sometimes, if a roof is leaking or a busted pipe or whatever the issue is. I get up after the call, I get ready and I go try to do everything I can to solve the problem. You either care about the people you work for, or you don't. Been plenty of times I've literally lost money doing this stuff, money ain't everything, sometimes it's a little old lady needing a repair done, and she just happens to live in a unit owned by one of these slumlords who I deal with. . I lost money, but granny can sleep without water pouring on her bed from the roof, therefore, I can sleep tight, knowing I did the right thing..
It's folks like you who we need these days, good sir. And I'm not certain, but something tells me you haven't been hearing this as often as you should, so I'mma say it here:
Thank you for your good work. God Bless you and your loved ones.
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.
when he said" what is the point in a chain of command" and "were supposed to look up to these guys" has made me decided that im not going to reenlist. heads should have been rolling. if a lower enlisted made a mistake, you can dam well bet his life would be basically ruined.
I served in the Danish Royal Guard and now as a national guardsman and we had something similar happen. A company called ISS (yes that's their name) took over maintenance, cleaning and food on all danish military bases. It got so bad that soldiers made a facebook group called "The fight against ISS (in danish)" where they would share photos of the shitty food we were served and had to pay for and show the fucked up rooms that they had cleaned or fixed. The group got so big that it caught the attention of the media which then got the polititians involed, who would say on tv how bad it was and how the government and the military was being lied to and how poor it was to the soldiers. But then nothing happned. ISS said sorry and went back to their old ways pretty fast.
Thanks for sharing, sorry to hear its bad in your military as well.
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 😅
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
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.
This is just one of the many reasons service members commit suicide at the rates we do. This video is whole heartedly indicative of how leadership treats and values their lower enlisted. The DOD is one big “do as I say, not as I do” rat race to find that next stripe or commission. Leaders have lost sight of what it is to be leaders and have left us lower enlisted in the mud only listening when they have no choice to or when it’s convenient for them.
I am a retired SNCO and that is EXACTLY correct. The "corporate" officers are in charge now. I got in trouble once for yelling at an argumentative E-4 in Afghanistan! They said it was not "acceptable in the workplace." To which I responded: "Is this a war or a boy scout trip?" They didn't understand my answer. At which point I let it go, I learned a long time ago you cannot argue with idiots....unless you want to become one yourself.
What's even better, at Cannon AFB, the BBC there is leaving those paper warnings on houses for things that are their job. I.e. things like the grass they are supposed to cut or for bushes/flowers/trees that were there before people moved in. They are such a terrible company
Lmao I got neighbors 2 doors down here at Luke that has shrubs the size of small fucking trees that says they never get anything but God forbid I have a small patch of grass that sticks up 2 inches I'll get lit up with those fucking paper warnings saying my yard is in disarray
Currently watching this video from the Cannon Gym WiFi. Never use on base housing, not even once...
Ig that’s why it’s called Afcannonistan
This is outrageous.
Who do these people think they are?
Average state dept employees or VA Administrators?
I was at Fort Hood for premob, our barracks had black mold in the vents. Everyone got sick and we were told to just deal with it because it's only temporary. It's failure on so many levels
I was stationed at hood from 2002-2009 most of the barracks on the 1cav side of post are condemned full of mold the bathrooms flood it was terrible the only barracks that were half way nice were the stacks the were across from Division so if that how much our stuff sucked I can imagine the rest of post
I love how he wore a red shirt, just so you could see how truly heated he gets when he talks about this stuff. I lived on a few different military installations, the good housing had waiting lists and was sought after, and the bad housing was plentiful and just plain embarrassing.
Thx for bringing this issue to light!
Still remember them telling us to stop water the house when water was leaking into the house above a outlet.
Hold up there AC. Accountability? That Sh*t don't fly 'round here any more. It might hurt someones little feelings. In 2022 it's amazing that ANYTHING works.
You know what really grinds my gears? All the branches of service, as far as I know, trains engineers. I was a 21R for the Army, electrician. The Army also trains plumbers, Carpenters, and just about every facet of building and repairing facilities.... do you know what my ncoic said on my first day of training? I'm paraphrasing here, because it's been well over 15 years but as I sat in my training room at Fort Leonard Wood he told us all. " I'm going to train you to be the best electrician the army standards can provide. You'll be able to do some miraculous things and get power the places that no one else can... but once you leave here you'll never do that job. It's all ran by civilians now"
He didn't lie, I spent the next 12 years doing pmcs on vehicles, doing carpentry, setting up tents or pouring concrete. If your tent had a concrete foundation at Camp Marmal/Pratt you're welcome.
But God forbid, if the electrical socket stops working that we have an army trained electrician go to the freaking Home Depot get a new socket and put it in. Seriously, we have the Manpower and the trained Personnel to handle it all ourselves... So, why don't you let us play coach? I do facilities maintenance management now that I've left the Army, and I do more of my job I was trained for as a civilian than I ever did active duty.
For gosh sakes, the Army has a Corps of Engineers... why don't you let them take a crack at it. Why don't you utilize some of the soldiers you spent millions of dollars training for the sole purpose of doing these civilians jobs? Some genius will make the argument that having the civilians do it is cheaper, which is true when they are doing their jobs, but they aren't doing it so we're spending Millions of dollars on civilian contractors who are doing two things, Jack and squat.
Sorry, old argument I used to have constantly with my chain of command.
But if the DOD uses active duty to fix everything, then they wouldn't be able to get their kickbacks from corrupt contractors anymore.
On top of that, the army instilled us with the values of preventive maintenance, pride in appearance, and the skills needed to make everything dress-right-dress. And then they tell us to watch everything fall apart, because we are not allowed to fix it.
Nothing like sleeping in a condemned warehouse with bricks falling out of the walls, holes in the ceiling covered with a torn tarp, various types of bird crap on the bunks, broken a/c systems with rodents living in the tubes, and exposed live wires in the middle of the building that were getting rained on through the various holes in the roof.
It took a father sending a congressman video of 82nd's living conditions before their barracks got fixed. USASOC was having the same issues now. Luckily 4th POG Col got the ball rolling on getting some of the barracks fixed.
Fucking OUTSTANDING - I HATED Balfour Beatty when I was stationed at Ft Carson.
And they wonder why re-enlistment and recruitment is so low, when stories like these have been dropping for years.
That's what tends to happen when you're spending other people's money instead of your own
*laughs in tax money IS your own money*
This is EXACTLY what I expect from our federal government. Those assholes unaccountably waste TRILLIONS, with a "T", of dollars with ZERO consequences. It's time to bring back tar and feathering.
Too much work, one bullet will do just fine.
I know as a 21 year vet, my family was constantly sick when we lived in base housing, the wife and kids had all kinds of respiratory issues. When I got a high enough rank to afford a house in a good area and we moved out, suddenly everyone got healthy and instead of perpetually having colds, we only got them maybe twice a year like normal people. But don't worry, nothing to see here.
When they started outsourcing all of this while I was still in, we said this would happen.
Personally deal with this. Moved into a house that, "was the only one available on base", only to find out the entire family would get chemical burns on our skin if we touch the carpets. We blacklit the house and found out the previous owners had a dog that pissed and crapped all over the house. Through an investigation outside of Balfour Beatty, the previous tennets were charged 3000 to replace the carpets but this was never done. Also the carpet cleaners that they use were only told to vacuum, not steam clean. Took the guy 12 gallons of solution to get three of the rooms tolerable to walk on without getting hurt. Also on top of that. Our home was on the condemned list but they moved us in anyways. Yet the newer housing on the other side of base had numerous houses available.
Got off base as soon as the 1 year contract was up. No longer stationed there either.
And the scams are still going on...
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!
I lived in base housing on joint Base Charleston for about a year and can confirm that every "Fix it" order we put in we waited AT LEAST 6 months for any communication at all on it being done
6 years provable, but damn if that wouldn't explain the sorry state of housing back in the 80s and 90s too.
This is the most angry I’ve ever seen AC and I’m here for it. Hopefully this gets the point across to the right people.
Really makes me wonder how they are having a recruiting problem considering how well they treat soldiers while they are serving & the great benefits they get after leaving with missing limbs & what not! 🤨🤔
this is why the unit I belonged to took care of things like this ourselves.
If I was a company sponsoring a video THIS is EXACTLY the sponsorship rant I would want.
I’m not surprised by ANY of this. The cop dorms on RAF/USAF Lakenheath were condemned when I moved in…lived there for another 2 years. My bathroom had HUGE amounts of black mold.
You can’t even discuss this with out getting so angry because it’s just so negligent.
I drive around base and just watch sprinklers shoot into the air hours on end flooding streets as they water the roads and not the grass. Something so small I can only imagine what the homes look like