Allow Civilians to Live On Base?

[Marauder06]

There's a move on several bases to open on-base housing to the local (i.e. non-DoD-affiliated) community.

I think this is a bad ida.

"Our first priority is, and always will be, taking care of service members and their families here at Fort Hood, but we are equally excited to welcome all renters into our community and invite them to make their home with us."

 

[policemedic]

Absolutely insane.

I'd make a possible exception for FLEOs/USPHS if there was adequate housing stock available but the post CG should concentrate on housing service members not Joe Sixpack.

 

[policemedic]

On another note, what happens to the privately owned weapons that will accompany these new civilian residents? Registration with the Provost Marshal at least, I would think.

What an absolute force protection nightmare.

 

[DA SWO]

There's a move on several bases to open on-base housing to the local (i.e. non-DoD-affiliated) community.

I think this is a bad ida.

"Our first priority is, and always will be, taking care of service members and their families here at Fort Hood, but we are equally excited to welcome all renters into our community and invite them to make their home with us."

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How do you enforce all the inane rules the Military has on the Section 8 Occupants?
Of course this is also a great way to close Military Housing and get everyone off base into the local communities (but I am a cynical old fart).

 

[Diamondback 2/2]

Fort Hood is ghetto enough without moving the local trash on post. Worst idea ever...

 

[x SF med]

NO.
Absolutely, Fucking NO.

 

[Marine0311]

fuk no

 

[Raptor]

Fort Hood is ghetto enough without moving the local trash on post. Worst idea ever...

To clarify on my agree, I'm not calling Ft. Hood ghetto (because I haven't been there much), but the local trash part is what I'm agreeing with.

 

[Centermass]

I was looking for the right words that reflected my thoughts on this idea.......

NO.
Absolutely, Fucking NO.

Someone else beat me to it.

 

[Diamondback 2/2]

To clarify on my agree, I'm not calling Ft. Hood ghetto (because I haven't been there much), but the local trash part is what I'm agreeing with.

To clarify my agree, I've been there much, and the Hood is ghetto enough!

 

[R.Caerbannog]

Is there a way to curtail this, or maybe instead just remove the civilians and section 8 out of the equation?

 

[Red Flag 1]

Sure, let them on base. They get the quarters that have become rat/bug/snake infested; torn up with power failures, and water leaks. Once they get all the problems sorted out, evict them from base housing with the stroke of a pen by the Base Cmdr.

 

[TLDR20]

There's a move on several bases to open on-base housing to the local (i.e. non-DoD-affiliated) community.

I think this is a bad ida.

"Our first priority is, and always will be, taking care of service members and their families here at Fort Hood, but we are equally excited to welcome all renters into our community and invite them to make their home with us."

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So at Bragg at least much of the new, contract base housing, is off base. It is in places like Sanford, Spring Lake and Raeford. I don't even think you need an ID to get onto it. Is this the "base housing" they are talking about?

 

[DocIllinois]

Sure, let them on base. They get the quarters that have become rat/bug/snake infested; torn up with power failures, and water leaks. Once they get all the problems sorted out, evict them from base housing with the stroke of a pen by the Base Cmdr.

And then the private housing companies are complete dicks to deal with because they're losing money on empty units, which is ultimately the one thing they want to not happen.

A hell of a situation.

 

[Devildoc]

I can see Section 8 candidates who would turn down the squalid conditions at Tarawa Terrace when I was growing up. The upscale units there now? Dunno.

 

[Gunz]

Downsizing won't go on forever. There will more wars and more need for housing for service members. I don't know what the answer is for the private companies that own the housing, but it sounds like a bad idea all around.

 

[policemedic]

"What do you mean I can't use the PX or commissary? I fucking live here, dude."

 

[Brill]

"What do you mean I can't use the PX or commissary? I fucking live here, dude."

Class VI!

 

[Northerner1012]

I like how we can potentially lose our BAH here and this is being debated at the same time because the private housing company is losing money on shit tier housing.

 

[BuckysBadger24]

There's a move on several bases to open on-base housing to the local (i.e. non-DoD-affiliated) community.

I think this is a bad ida.

"Our first priority is, and always will be, taking care of service members and their families here at Fort Hood, but we are equally excited to welcome all renters into our community and invite them to make their home with us."

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Why? Seriously, why? I don't know that I can think of one good reason why my civvie ass needs to live on a military base. Even if there would be any benefits, we don't deserve them. I'm sure the geniuses that build their homes right near the fence line on many bases bitch enough about the noise as is, so why would you actually want to be inside?

This sounds pretty rock fuck stupid to me. You guys got enough problems.