Two young service members share their thoughts about on-base accommodations, roommates, nearby conveniences and community. Learn about life in the barracks: www.todaysmilitary.com/milita....
Here's a run down on living in the barracks. 2am you wake up to your roommates girlfriend which spent the night and has to leave. 555am barracks inspection. CSM is pissed and has everyone in the battalion clean the barracks to its spotless. T mins later, someone takes out their trash and it leaks across the entire hallway. Friday night, weekends, and 4 days, the barracks can get rowdy with a dozen plus dudes drinking and smoking until a fight occurs. Random health and awareness inspections at 430 am and your rooms are stripped and dogs come through. Nco's find weird things like 20 used condoms on drawers, s3x toys and handcuffs. Then you have the guy who thought it was a good idea to play his drums at 1am on a Tuesday night and he didnt think anyone could hear. My 1st barracks room was infested with bed bugs, my 2nd one a week later had pule stains on the wall and obvious piss stains all over the mattress. Glorious
You forgot the Sunday morning wake up at 5am to do police call and everyone is drunk form the clubs and bars still. Or the Sunday morning 5am drug test. Lol
@@torrisdavison524 Sorry to confirm it lol. I got another one for you. Once went to the field for 27 days. We got back on a Friday and went out all night and were drinking and going to clubs. I got back at the barracks at 5am. Top wakes us guys up at 6am. We had to go back to our field where we were and do a police call. I told top I was drunk. He said “ I don’t give a fuck!” Shit… I got a 5T and drove off into the ranges and had guys in the back puking all over the place. I think I hit a few things. It was a long day to say the least…
I lived in the barracks at Ft Bragg back in the early 90's and I pulled lots of SDNCO over my 20 year carrier. I retired from Ft. Bliss in 2012 they had new Barracks but still had this problrm. How about the Fire Alarm going off at 3 in the morning for no reason.
Welp, it *IS* Ft. Polk we're talking about here, that place is legendary for being pretty much the sole cause of the majority of people leaving the military and not coming back, aside from active-combatants. Gosh, Mikeburnfire here on RUclips has some great Campfire horror stories to tell about that place.
I like how y’all don’t tell them the bad things about being in the barracks! GI parties, not all barracks have stoves/ovens, you could have a nasty roommate, DPW never fixes the issues with your barracks room in a timely manner etc. stop the 🧢
Considering genZ is easily discouraged and usually unwillingly to work hard or be uncomfortable, not the best idea to bogard us with all the cons. That's something your recruiter will tell you if you have discernment and pick a good recruiter. Also doing your own research and talking to different soldiers. Everyone's experience is one of a kind anyway. And it's the freaking military 😂 I wouldn't be joining if I expected it to be all sunshine. I assume its gonna suck for the most part, but it pays off because of all the money and benefits and free college
They won't tell you about all the PIPE that you be hearing at night when you trying to sleep 😂 or the barracks parties at 3 AM or people stealing your clothes from the laundry room. The room inspections, the heater don't work, no privacy It's bad these are 1000% acting
at fort hood other than a shared bathroom and closet there are no doors, not every base had nice barracks like this. I can only dream to get actual privacy like this. 800 billion dollar budget and yet many of us soldiers are still living in barracks from world war 2.
Back in 1990 our battalion had a meeting with BG Wesley Clark (at Fort Irwin). He went on for 5 minutes telling us all how great he was for providing all this new housing so married soldiers didn't have to live in town. He then asked, "How are things in the barracks?" A soldier responded: "The barracks are overcrowded, sir." Clark: "...get married and move out." Of course, all the married soldiers thought that was funny. The barracks remained overcrowded. They packed 3 of us in rooms designed for 2. I could go on and on with endless examples but, in a nutshell, barracks are degrading and dehumanizing places where you are continuously treated like dogshit. And the people in charge, who can change it (like Wesley Clark) don't have to live in the barracks. Hence, they don't give a shit about you. I wouldn't recommend any unmarried person sign up unless they have no other option for improving their life.
While the barracks can (to a certain point) be what you make of it, this video does not accurately show what the barracks and Single Soldier life is like
“I felt welcome as soon as I got here. All these e6s taking me out to eat and inviting me to drink! I’m not even 21! I love the army” - every female lower enlisted
"As soon as i showed up here I felt so welcomed I was even shower around" showing up as a new Private in a POG unit is very different then showing up as a new Private in an Infantry unit lol.
I loved my military job. I was very good at it. I hated living with idiots. I finally got out of the army for that reason. It’s one thing to work w the idiots. That can happen any where, but is quit another to have to live with them.
That is so true. I was in two different units in the army, one was awesome and I liked 90% of the soldiers in my unit and who lived in the barracks, my other unit was much more high speed and a swear, I hated prob 70% of those motherf'kers. I'd honestly just go to hotels to stay on the weekends every once in awhile just to feel like I had my own space.
the Army trully changed if this video is true. cooking and watching movies eating pop corn? in my day you had a bunch of drunks yelling and screaming all night or until they passed out
My first night in Germany was in the middle of the week and dudes were throwing empty beer bottles down the hall and glass smashing everywhere and nobody said a word but I was very happy they moved me to another floor.
Not every barracks is like that, still many, many barracks that are 2 mans rooms with no stove or bathroom inside them. Its rare to have good condition barracks, many are due for a capital overhaul/renovation.
Was apart of the first group of soldiers to move in these barracks at Fort Stewart back in 2009-10... Good ol 3rd Infantry Division...looks like 2nd or 4th Brigade...broke those beds in really well for the next group😂👌🏾 Wasn't always peaches and cream but then again it's THE ARMY.... Good times... #sendme
They need to seriously reevaluate who they force to live in the barracks. There should be a cutoff age, or as soon as you become an NCO you can move out; whichever one comes first.
THINK MARK!! The reality is that the barracks are held to a lower health standard because you have no other choice but to live in the barracks! Regardless of how well you try to take care of your room, you’ll live to seen your stuff crumble to dust and get stolen away!!
People in the army and marine corp are suckers. You can't move out of the dorms until E-6? What the hell? That is ridiculous. I moved out of the dorms in the air force as an E-3, and I wasn't married. Granted I did move out a little early because the dorms were overcrowded, but we still move out after 3 years of tis.
We can in the army but you have to get your 1sgt and company commanders approval. Best thing to do is bang some chick who has her own apartment or house.
Lmao y'all made a video about the good barracks 😂 My barracks has two people in one room, and we don't have the luxury of stove or oven. Yet somehow we are expected to cook healthy. Thanks Army🖕The barracks at Ft. Gordon are absolute 🗑️
Эти два парня из начала ролика были отпущены в увольнительную в пятницу вечером и приехали в свои бараки в понедельник утром, что бы жить в них до следующего вечера пятницы? These two guys from the beginning of the video were given leave on friday evening and arrived at their barracks on monday morning to live in them until the following friday evening?
How's life in the barracks? In 1999 at Ft Campbell our barracks were so shitty that 3 of us E-4's put our money together to get the f-k outta the barracks. Our gdamn 1sgt and company commanders offices/orderly room were on the 1st floor of the barracks and our d-bag 1sgt LOVED working late during the week which meant you were up close and personal with those two guys monday to friday and our 1sgt, when he was working late, would just walk upstairs and wanna talk with all of the soldiers. I think the f'ing guy hated his wife and kids. We had communal bathroom on each floor which sucked. My son is now in the Marine Corps at Lejeune and his barracks is really freaking nice, has his own bathroom, sink and a badass closet for all his gear. I think Bush, during the war on terror, gave the military big pay raises and did major base improvements because the 90's under Clinton were horseshit, we had no money in the 101st.
@@andrewlee59I’ve heard nothing but bad things about fort Stewart, especially with the barracks. I guess it greatly depends on your MOS and unit on how your experience will be
A Stove !!? are you kidding me !! ? Did 14 years Army 78-92 ,10 of it in West Germany. I hated stateside. We had 6 to 12 man rooms for the Cherries ( new replacements ). 4 and 2 man rooms. You had to be an ol' timer to get a 2 man room. Rooms were broke down by platoon and squads. The ol' timers rotating back to the World would pass of the fridge for the beer. Yes we Shakedowns at 0300 with the K9s. All most all the Kaserns are shut down and are in disrepair. Most of us didn't like stateside cause of all B S.
That’s why I always tell people who are thinking of joining, that as soon as they get the opportunity to go overseas (hopefully not for a combat deployment), absolutely take it. It seems like stateside likes to make things more miserable than they need to be
There isn't much to living in a barracks. It's not much more than a place to sleep. It's no frat house. It's what you deal with on the rest of the base that makes on-base life miserable.
To update you know all the dinosaur aged vets uh welcome to the modern world... Where rooms are being renovated through the early 2000s and adding cooking tops etc .
until you get married. and in the army/marines in most instances if you're not married you'll have to stay in barracks until you make E6 with rarer cases E5. In air force youll be allowed to leave at E4.
This is a joke...no barracks back in the day had a stove, refrigerator, etc...or your own bathroom for any E5 or below, because we had the DFAC and we had shared shower/bathrooms in the hallway...THIS generation is spoiled and entitled.
Here's a run down on living in the barracks. 2am you wake up to your roommates girlfriend which spent the night and has to leave. 555am barracks inspection. CSM is pissed and has everyone in the battalion clean the barracks to its spotless. T mins later, someone takes out their trash and it leaks across the entire hallway. Friday night, weekends, and 4 days, the barracks can get rowdy with a dozen plus dudes drinking and smoking until a fight occurs. Random health and awareness inspections at 430 am and your rooms are stripped and dogs come through. Nco's find weird things like 20 used condoms on drawers, s3x toys and handcuffs. Then you have the guy who thought it was a good idea to play his drums at 1am on a Tuesday night and he didnt think anyone could hear. My 1st barracks room was infested with bed bugs, my 2nd one a week later had pule stains on the wall and obvious piss stains all over the mattress. Glorious
You forgot the Sunday morning wake up at 5am to do police call and everyone is drunk form the clubs and bars still. Or the Sunday morning 5am drug test. Lol
@@mikethemechanic7395 when I seen it say one comment I thought the comment was going to say this wasn’t true but you made it even worse 😂
@@torrisdavison524 Sorry to confirm it lol. I got another one for you. Once went to the field for 27 days. We got back on a Friday and went out all night and were drinking and going to clubs. I got back at the barracks at 5am. Top wakes us guys up at 6am. We had to go back to our field where we were and do a police call. I told top I was drunk. He said “ I don’t give a fuck!” Shit… I got a 5T and drove off into the ranges and had guys in the back puking all over the place. I think I hit a few things. It was a long day to say the least…
I lived in the barracks at Ft Bragg back in the early 90's and I pulled lots of SDNCO over my 20 year carrier. I retired from Ft. Bliss in 2012 they had new Barracks but still had this problrm. How about the Fire Alarm going off at 3 in the morning for no reason.
@@mikethemechanic7395 that sounds terrible 😂
80% of Army barracks do not look like this.
First thing I thought. Talking about cooking but with what stove??
@William Elder 😂
Welcome to the United States Marine Corps.
80%?? You mean 100%…. Lol
The Army has stoves and a small kitchen area in the barracks, might be different from other branches.
Bro these barracks are DOPE..mine looked NOTHING like this in Ft Polk..we had asbestos and moldy water..no joke look it up..and that was in 2008
That was in 2008 YE that explains it
Welp, it *IS* Ft. Polk we're talking about here, that place is legendary for being pretty much the sole cause of the majority of people leaving the military and not coming back, aside from active-combatants. Gosh, Mikeburnfire here on RUclips has some great Campfire horror stories to tell about that place.
@@pkrounds its still like that isnt it?
@@MM-sx7zs I heard that in WW2, They used Ft. Polk as a POW camp to store Nazi POWs
@@jacob9436 y e s
I like how y’all don’t tell them the bad things about being in the barracks! GI parties, not all barracks have stoves/ovens, you could have a nasty roommate, DPW never fixes the issues with your barracks room in a timely manner etc. stop the 🧢
Considering genZ is easily discouraged and usually unwillingly to work hard or be uncomfortable, not the best idea to bogard us with all the cons. That's something your recruiter will tell you if you have discernment and pick a good recruiter. Also doing your own research and talking to different soldiers. Everyone's experience is one of a kind anyway. And it's the freaking military 😂 I wouldn't be joining if I expected it to be all sunshine. I assume its gonna suck for the most part, but it pays off because of all the money and benefits and free college
Dang they got stoves?! These some fancy barracks.
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Y'all forgot to mention those room inspections
They won't tell you about all the PIPE that you be hearing at night when you trying to sleep 😂 or the barracks parties at 3 AM or people stealing your clothes from the laundry room. The room inspections, the heater don't work, no privacy
It's bad these are 1000% acting
Tell the mp❤
at fort hood other than a shared bathroom and closet there are no doors, not every base had nice barracks like this. I can only dream to get actual privacy like this. 800 billion dollar budget and yet many of us soldiers are still living in barracks from world war 2.
My cousin served in the Army, he trained in Fort Jackson. Actually Fort Jackson is the first military base I’ve ever visited.
So basically I’m supposed to be grown as hell living in a dorm room
Yeeeeeep, you got it. lol
Plot twist: these are college students posesing as soilders
Back in 1990 our battalion had a meeting with BG Wesley Clark (at Fort Irwin). He went on for 5 minutes telling us all how great he was for providing all this new housing so married soldiers didn't have to live in town. He then asked, "How are things in the barracks?"
A soldier responded: "The barracks are overcrowded, sir."
Clark: "...get married and move out."
Of course, all the married soldiers thought that was funny.
The barracks remained overcrowded. They packed 3 of us in rooms designed for 2.
I could go on and on with endless examples but, in a nutshell, barracks are degrading and dehumanizing places where you are continuously treated like dogshit. And the people in charge, who can change it (like Wesley Clark) don't have to live in the barracks. Hence, they don't give a shit about you.
I wouldn't recommend any unmarried person sign up unless they have no other option for improving their life.
E4 much?
While the barracks can (to a certain point) be what you make of it, this video does not accurately show what the barracks and Single Soldier life is like
Doesn't the Army do PT anymore because people are looking out of shape.
“I felt welcome as soon as I got here. All these e6s taking me out to eat and inviting me to drink! I’m not even 21! I love the army”
- every female lower enlisted
Bahahahahahah. Barracks bunnies bro
To be fair everyone in the military offer ppl drinks regardless of gender and age especially after FTX
Hola me puedo contactar contigo
You would think they would have a little more respect for themselves.🙄
"As soon as i showed up here I felt so welcomed I was even shower around" showing up as a new Private in a POG unit is very different then showing up as a new Private in an Infantry unit lol.
I loved my military job. I was very good at it. I hated living with idiots. I finally got out of the army for that reason. It’s one thing to work w the idiots. That can happen any where, but is quit another to have to live with them.
That is so true. I was in two different units in the army, one was awesome and I liked 90% of the soldiers in my unit and who lived in the barracks, my other unit was much more high speed and a swear, I hated prob 70% of those motherf'kers. I'd honestly just go to hotels to stay on the weekends every once in awhile just to feel like I had my own space.
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the Army trully changed if this video is true. cooking and watching movies eating pop corn? in my day you had a bunch of drunks yelling and screaming all night or until they passed out
My first night in Germany was in the middle of the week and dudes were throwing empty beer bottles down the hall and glass smashing everywhere and nobody said a word but I was very happy they moved me to another floor.
Not every barracks is like that, still many, many barracks that are 2 mans rooms with no stove or bathroom inside them. Its rare to have good condition barracks, many are due for a capital overhaul/renovation.
Damn...
I have so much shit I own too.
Need somewhere to put it
That's how my barracks are 2 man rooms
Was apart of the first group of soldiers to move in these barracks at Fort Stewart back in 2009-10...
Good ol 3rd Infantry Division...looks like 2nd or 4th Brigade...broke those beds in really well for the next group😂👌🏾
Wasn't always peaches and cream but then again it's THE ARMY....
Good times...
#sendme
Currently in 3rd ID barracks, there's mold everywhere, send help.
They need to seriously reevaluate who they force to live in the barracks. There should be a cutoff age, or as soon as you become an NCO you can move out; whichever one comes first.
You can put in a barracks ETP to move out
@@yagi.-you shouldn’t need an ETP to move out as an E-5. The navy and Air Force kick E-5s out of the bricks as soon as they make rank.
It is a perfect life, to live in the barracks of a military base and perfect place of growth for individuals.
No
cap
That’s a lie Big Sir 🧢
@@nickgantzer3106 fr fr ong bussin
THINK MARK!! The reality is that the barracks are held to a lower health standard because you have no other choice but to live in the barracks! Regardless of how well you try to take care of your room, you’ll live to seen your stuff crumble to dust and get stolen away!!
The pool on the roofs were the shit too
rip to the poor souls who got stuck at FT hood 6ish years ago idk how that shit aint get shut down
When the fuck did we start allowing ovens in barracks rooms? My 1SG would stroke our if he saw that
It depends on the base and unit. When I was at 44th med on Bragg we couldn’t have shit. At 4ID 3ABCT we can have air fryers and all kinds of things.
People in the army and marine corp are suckers. You can't move out of the dorms until E-6? What the hell? That is ridiculous. I moved out of the dorms in the air force as an E-3, and I wasn't married. Granted I did move out a little early because the dorms were overcrowded, but we still move out after 3 years of tis.
We can in the army but you have to get your 1sgt and company commanders approval.
Best thing to do is bang some chick who has her own apartment or house.
Lmao y'all made a video about the good barracks 😂 My barracks has two people in one room, and we don't have the luxury of stove or oven. Yet somehow we are expected to cook healthy. Thanks Army🖕The barracks at Ft. Gordon are absolute 🗑️
That's because you're at AIT dumbass...
Let me just say this… once we got back from deployment, those barracks were awesome until peeps got kicked out for a signal unit.
can you decorate it how you want?
Эти два парня из начала ролика были отпущены в увольнительную в пятницу вечером и приехали в свои бараки в понедельник утром, что бы жить в них до следующего вечера пятницы?
These two guys from the beginning of the video were given leave on friday evening and arrived at their barracks on monday morning to live in them until the following friday evening?
How's life in the barracks? In 1999 at Ft Campbell our barracks were so shitty that 3 of us E-4's put our money together to get the f-k outta the barracks. Our gdamn 1sgt and company commanders offices/orderly room were on the 1st floor of the barracks and our d-bag 1sgt LOVED working late during the week which meant you were up close and personal with those two guys monday to friday and our 1sgt, when he was working late, would just walk upstairs and wanna talk with all of the soldiers.
I think the f'ing guy hated his wife and kids.
We had communal bathroom on each floor which sucked.
My son is now in the Marine Corps at Lejeune and his barracks is really freaking nice, has his own bathroom, sink and a badass closet for all his gear.
I think Bush, during the war on terror, gave the military big pay raises and did major base improvements because the 90's under Clinton were horseshit, we had no money in the 101st.
These newer generation military are lucky the open barracks concept is no longer around like when I went through back in the early 80s Marine Corps.
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What about the drunken parties, the verbal abuse and beatings at the barracks? Hmm.....
Which base is this?
That’s fort Stewart
@@andrewlee59I’ve heard nothing but bad things about fort Stewart, especially with the barracks. I guess it greatly depends on your MOS and unit on how your experience will be
A Stove !!? are you kidding me !! ?
Did 14 years Army 78-92 ,10 of it in West Germany. I hated stateside. We had 6 to 12 man rooms for the Cherries ( new replacements ). 4 and 2 man rooms. You had to be an ol' timer to get a 2 man room. Rooms were broke down by platoon and squads. The ol' timers rotating back to the World would pass of the fridge for the beer.
Yes we Shakedowns at 0300 with the K9s.
All most all the Kaserns are shut down and are in disrepair.
Most of us didn't like stateside cause of all B S.
That’s why I always tell people who are thinking of joining, that as soon as they get the opportunity to go overseas (hopefully not for a combat deployment), absolutely take it. It seems like stateside likes to make things more miserable than they need to be
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They chose the best barracks in Stewart to make this video
It’s like I won’t go. If I get accepted anyway lol
I like how they panned above the furniture to try not to show how shitty they are
What if you are married do you still have to live in the barracks
no you get special accomodation
@@sonsofelshamy3987 oh ok cool thanks
@@anthonybisantino you get money for housing
BAH
No
There isn't much to living in a barracks. It's not much more than a place to sleep. It's no frat house. It's what you deal with on the rest of the base that makes on-base life miserable.
Is this fort Stewart 😂
Fort Polk needs to be shut down bruh some soldier killed another soldier and then there were other soldiers that just died there from something
a solider killed his pregnant wife
Lovely! All the while, people who are equal rank but married get to have much nicer accommodations.
They only show the latest in 60 years of change
Кто от Камикадзе?
Nope its the opposite
stay away from that military star card young soldiers save your money be smart
How so?
Peanut brittle tter?? 1:43
You have a kitchen? Wtf?
Marines out side in the dog house
Shit you just showed pogs, if they were 11 BANG BANGS THEY'D BE in the field or drunk!
Glad I’m Air Force
To update you know all the dinosaur aged vets uh welcome to the modern world... Where rooms are being renovated through the early 2000s and adding cooking tops etc .
Salazar
The lies
I hope we dont have to stay there... lol
until you get married. and in the army/marines in most instances if you're not married you'll have to stay in barracks until you make E6 with rarer cases E5. In air force youll be allowed to leave at E4.
Cap
This is a sound stage with paid actors i dont under stand how anyone could fall for this.
HAHAHAHA! LIES! ALL LIES! What kinda propaganda is this?
от "армэ виликай раиси" я откосил за милу душеньку, но у вас бы послужил
Booooo fort Stewart trash
This is a joke...no barracks back in the day had a stove, refrigerator, etc...or your own bathroom for any E5 or below, because we had the DFAC and we had shared shower/bathrooms in the hallway...THIS generation is spoiled and entitled.
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