DEPLOYED: Base Bathrooms and Showers in Iraq Only Cleaned Once a Day Now = Dumb

After seeing this it wouldn’t surprise me if the DOD decided to only let soldiers clean their M-4’s once a year to save money

So this morning I made my 3 block stagger to the shower trailer when I see 4 dudes duct taping another sign to the bathroom door. The first thing I thought was “Hmmm.. just like when you see 6 guys on a road crew watching one dude dig a ditch back in the US”

I generally don’t pay attention to the hundreds of signs KBR and the Army posts everywhere because I just don’t care – I don’t know if it is the cheesy clip-art they use or the misspellings or the rambling way they talk to you like you’re 12 or something – either way around I usually just pass by them. But this one caught my attention.

It Stated (see above): “Due to Gov… all cleanings are reduced to once a day”

Great idea right? I wonder who the genius was who decided that cleaning a bathroom just once a day that hundreds of men (who work in 120 degree heat) use constantly was a terrific way to save money? And that has to be what this is about, cash.

It makes no sense at all – if you change from cleaning a heavily used bathroom from 3 times a day, to just one time a day – guess what happens? Yep, it becomes so nasty by the time someone cleans it they end up spending three times the amount of time and cleaning supplies than before. And the shitters will get clogged, the showers will get clogged and all other sorts of other wear and tear will cause everything to fall apart.

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Also due to decreased cleaning the bathrooms will become disgusting Petri dishes that will cause all sorts of health and medical problems for the soldiers and contractors who use them. Just off the top of my head I am already foreseeing increased cases of severe athlete’s foot, diarrhea and accidents from guys tripping over toilet paper and huge puddles of water.

So in the end you spend the same amount of man-hours cleaning it – and you now have the additional cost of repairing and replacing everything that breaks due to lack of maintenance. Not to mention the effect that this will have on combat readiness due to increased illnesses and hurting the morale (seriously, how lame is it to use a shit covered bathroom that smells like ass, balls and feet everyday for a year?).

So this whole thing is counter-productive – way to go DOD, you get the Darwin Award of the week from DVM.

Also: You can bet your ass that the Colonel’s and GS-15 who made this decision will still get their single room that comes complete with a king size bed and a private bathroom cleaned 3 times a day.

You will understand this picture after listening to the DVM RADIO episode for this article – be prepared, this sign is also dumb

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~James G
Founder – Editor in Chief

James G is a Veteran Civilian Contractor who has worked in the Middle East and Southeast Asia for way too long; he has traveled to over 50 countries chasing fortune and glory. He spends his off time in Indonesia and Virginia getting drunk, shooting guns, writing poorly written articles and feeling sort of creepy taking pictures in the bathroom

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