Location: Fort Buckner, Okinawa. Cost: $183 per month, including utilities. Occupied by: Master Sergeant , wife, three small children. Problem: After four unaccompanied tours in 13 years of marriage, this family is paying a high price to stay together. This soldier is a paratrooper with Korean, Japanese, German, and Laotian service. Present quarters provide no stove or heating facilities; there is a November to March winter here. Marginal community-type septic tank for sewerage. Congested area: About 15 feet between houses. Unimproved roads. Costs $57 more than BAQ plus additional quarters allowance. Eighty-nine week waiting period for public quarters. Location: George Air Force Base, Calif. Cost: $72 per month, including utilities (plus $30 month transportation). wife, 8-year-old daughter. Problem: 311 square feet of living space. Picture above shows front view. He is an aircraft accessories repairman, subject to frequent recalls to the base, and long periods of TDY with its tactical fighter squadrons. Wife does not drive; nearest shopping area, 8 miles away. Elements of inadequacy are tin roof, cracked windows, leaking pipes, covered cement floor is cracked, and there are no shade trees or grass. Last duty station was Hickam AFB, Hawaii, where he waited 2 years and 7 months of a 3-year tour for onpost substandard housing. His priority on waiting list for George's onpost substandard housing is too low for him to expect an apartment during his tour. Location: George Air Force Base, Calif. Family: Staff Sergeant wife, four sons. Problem: Intends to leave Air Force due to continual housing deprivations; is an aircraft electrical navigation equipment technician, a critical skill throughout the Air Force. He describes his experiences: "Have looked for adequate housing in immediate area, but difficult to find I do He is 86th on the waiting list for substandard Lanham and 104 for Wherry, with virtually no hope of being reached. |