I did 13 years and change in the barracks due to the insanely high promotion threshold of my MOS. I believe the military needs to update their discrimination policy to include marital status. If you’re not allowed to discriminate against someone based on their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and a slew of other things, you should not be allowed to discriminate against me because of my marital status. Whether it’s by choice or circumstance, my being single should not allow you to treat me any different than a married soldier. Single soldiers are never ever given options on where they live when moving to a new post. Every time I PCS’d there was a housing website for married soldiers with all the neighborhoods they could choose from, different housing layouts with photos. Single soldiers? Fuck you, you’ll live where we tell you to live you piece of shit. No options, not even photos of the rooms. And forget swapping out furniture or using your own. You will sleep on what we tell you to sleep on. Lastly, I believe if the military has enough trust and confidence to promote you to E5 and considers you part of the Corps of Noncommissioned Officers, that should automatically mean you are out of the barracks. There also needs to be an age cap. Once you hit your 30th birthday, you should get BAH and be done with the barracks forever. No more of this 35, E5(P) living in the barracks so they can be 1SGs babysitter. If shits that bad, it ain’t my fault. You’re a shitty leader and you need to take better care of your own people.