During a recent tour of Schofield Barracks Hawaii, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth reiterated the service’s commitment to ensure that every soldier has a decent place to live and work.
“One of the reasons I am out here is to specifically focus on looking at infrastructure in Hawaii,” Wormuth told a town hall audience at Schofield that was livestreamed to a wider audience. She took a tour of living spaces on the base, some of which decidedly fell in the less-than-satisfactory category.
“The Army is spending about a billion dollars a year on new barracks, and we’re going to be doing that for the next 10 years,” Wormuth told the audience. “That is really, really important. I am looking at that with [Chief of Staff] Gen. [James C.] McConville to see whether we need to increase that annual investment into barracks, and if so, how we could do that.”
Other installations Army-wide also should expect barracks inspections by senior leadership, Wormuth said. The service intends to identify unsafe living conditions and determine a timetable to fix the worst problems first, she added.
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