Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Capt. Samuel Choe, a former resident of Fort Gordon in Georgia, flew 17 hours from his deployment in South Korea to testify before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday about the mold exposure he said his family endured in private military housing and the chronic health issues suffered by his 8-year-old daughter, including a skin condition called severe atopic dermatitis or severe eczema. The degree of her condition, which he described as "potentially fatal," had caused her to wake up in the middle of the night to parts of her body caked in blood from minor scratches or irritation, he said, adding that it would "haunt" his daughter "for the rest of our lives." "I do not recall ever seeing the type [of] conditions that we have lived under while we were at Fort Gordon," said Choe, who has served in the military for 12 years and grew up in military housing with his parents. Choe was among the family members and advoc
A new Senate subcommittee report accuses one of the largest private military housing companies of maintaining many of the same problems that resulted in a 2021 guilty plea for defrauding the Pentagon.
Balfour Beatty Communities, which manages and maintains military housing on bases across the country, has mishandled maintenance requests and threatened the health and safety of families at bases in Georgia and Texas, according to a new report.