To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
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Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#2If you want to understand why we've been losing wars for 70+ years, look no farther than this perfect microcosm of the U.S. military's approach to leadership.
Field grades denying it's a problem, gaslighting those who say it's a problem, doing everything they can to suppress discussion about the problem – and then a bunch of lower enlisted dudes having to FFIO on their own.
Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#3This is just a basic hygrometer. It's not a mold detector at all. Is this really the level of innovation the army considers impressive? They are taking at least $400k to build 5500 hygrometers. This is something that already exists off the shelf for even less than that.
Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#4This is just a basic hygrometer. It's not a mold detector at all. Is this really the level of innovation the army considers impressive? They are taking at least $400k to build 5500 hygrometers. This is something that already exists off the shelf for even less than that.
My thoughts as well, just measuring temperature and humidity.
Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#5This is just a basic hygrometer. It's not a mold detector at all. Is this really the level of innovation the army considers impressive? They are taking at least $400k to build 5500 hygrometers. This is something that already exists off the shelf for even less than that.
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Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#6If you want to understand why we've been losing wars for 70+ years, look no farther than this perfect microcosm of the U.S. military's approach to leadership. Field grades denying it's a problem, gaslighting those who say it's a problem, doing everything they can to suppress discussion about the problem – and then a bunch of lower enlisted dudes having to FFIO on their own.
FFIO - Freakin' Figure It Out (polite form) for those like me who weren't sure :D
Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#7> The problem of mold in barracks flared into the news again last week with a Government Accountability Office report that found barracks at 10 installations posed “serious health and safety risks,” with black mold infestations, broken doors and locks and non-military people sleeping in the barracks. In some cases, troops were even left to clean up “biological waste” left by their peers who committed suicide.
Maybe that last one is worth investment as well. Not just having an outside party clean it up, but prevention?
Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#8This is just a basic hygrometer. It's not a mold detector at all. Is this really the level of innovation the army considers impressive? They are taking at least $400k to build 5500 hygrometers. This is something that already exists off the shelf for even less than that.
If the army buys 5500 hygrometers from aliexpress to install in a military base, they won't just be reading moisture
Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#9This is just a basic hygrometer. It's not a mold detector at all. Is this really the level of innovation the army considers impressive? They are taking at least $400k to build 5500 hygrometers. This is something that already exists off the shelf for even less than that.
If the army buys 5500 hygrometers from aliexpress to install in a military base, they won't just be reading moisture
Surely there are defense contractors already building hygrometers for other defense purposes that could extend their contracts/runs.
Re: To battle moldy barracks, Fort Stewart soldiers built their own mold detectors
#10This is just a basic hygrometer. It's not a mold detector at all. Is this really the level of innovation the army considers impressive? They are taking at least $400k to build 5500 hygrometers. This is something that already exists off the shelf for even less than that.
True. And Google says basic digital ones are cheap, I just bought a six pack from Amazon for $9.99.
That said it does have an alerting capability…but even then Amazon shows products for $15 that have wireless alerting.
So yeah, $72 per unit indeed looks to be a waste of money.