Location: Minot Air Force Base, N. Dak.

Cost: $75 month including utilities.

Occupied by: Alc.. -, wife, two small daughters.

Problem: Great distances and scarcity of rentals force junior airmen and
NCO's into marginal housing at this expanding SAC base.

This 7-year veteran is a multijet engine mechanic charged with keeping a
SAC bomber ready.

After long search, he located an apartment in the basement of an uncompleted
house shown above.

Unit has no hot water, wood-coal stove for heat, substandard electrical wiring,
leaking roof, and badly deteriorated walls and ceiling.

This family is 265th on the base waiting list.

Location: Fort Irwin, Calif.

Family: Sfc.

, wife, two sons and two daughters (3 to 9 years).
Problem: Poor housing has forced this family to separate for majority of 11
years of marriage.

This tank commander has 17 years service and a Purple Heart for a Korean
war wound.

He was stationed at Camp Roberts when he married; no onpost or offpost
quarters were available, so his wife lived in Visalia, Calif.

Next, at Fort Irwin, they bought a trailer and lived onpost.

Next, they were stationed in Germany, with an initial 8-month separation
while awaiting quarters.

Next, they were forced to buy another trailer to live-six people-at Fort Ord.
Next, came an 18-month separation while the sergeant was again in Korea.
Now he is back at Fort Irwin, and again no housing is available. The family
is back at Visalia, 250 miles away.

After waiting 16 months, they expect assignment soon to two small bedrooms
in inadequate, onpost housing. It will be at least another year before their turn
for adequate public quarters comes up.