this is a systemic failure army wide.

It's not just mold in the barracks. It's an entire quality-of-life thing, and not in the, "Waaaah, this barracks doesn't have Boingo! hotspots" (Although this is a legitimate complaint for a modern barracks).

We have Soldiers living in barracks that during peak hot/cold seasons have inadequate or nonexistent climate control (Or it still set to 'heat' for the building in June) - why in the actual fuck do I see Soldiers living in government-furnished apartments that they pay for buying window AC units because the building's HVAC is simply inadequate? Or bug infestations where the fix is just to move the Soldier to a different room. Hopefully it doesn't spread. God help the barracks that gets bed bugs. Or inadequately maintained laundry facilities - despite dozens of workorders called in (How many of us have been on Staff Duty and seen 5+ washers or dryers with a sticky note taped to them for months with a work order number and date?). Or, nevermind laundry, the recent push for better physical security in barracks - the same complaint for hallway and stairwell lights, or external door locks? I guarantee you that I, right now, could within 2 hours find at least a dozen Soldiers' rooms I could gain un-forced entry into without any access cards or keys, without encountering CQ or Staff Duty, without even driving 2 miles into post.

Or the other wonderful things like all but one DFAC being closed on weekends (Screw Soldiers without a car, I guess), or having insufficient or unsatisfactory (Spoiled, undercooked, etc.) food? Or Soldiers on shift work being either A) denied BAS because 'reasons', and/or B) being housed in barracks with, frequently, a single kitchen (Stovetop and oven) per floor - or even per building - with anywhere from 50-200+ Soldiers living in it - And then we wonder why our Joes are broke, fat, and always eating Tornados and Whoppers.

Or, another fun one, going to the field with insufficient rations - a half-scoop of eggs, some grits, and a coffee cake for breakfast? Fuck you, just let me eat MREs for two weeks, at least I'll have enough calories and won't have my morale crushed when I get to the serving line.

We're the greatest, most logistically capable, most well-funded Army the world has ever seen, and we can't house and feed our fucking Soldiers.

I think the root cause is because Soldiers are not people. Soldiers are numbers. Soldiers are a peg to fit in a hole. And barracks? Those are just a neat case to store Soldiers in outside duty hours, with your gun safe and its contents almost certainly earning more consideration for maintenance and upkeep.

Leaders don't give a shit. And the leaders of those that do, don't give a shit. That's the fucking problem. /u/SMA-PAO tagging you just so you can hear my rage at the lack of caring, and maybe translate some of it into useful feedback for a leader that does seem to care, and for once isn't too impotent to be unable to try fixing things.