Housing Company SCAMS Military out of 20 MILLION 

Dr. Phil has gotten a lot angrier these days.

He's not the hero we asked for, be he is definitely the hero we needed.

At this point it'd honestly be refreshing to find a single government contractor that WASN'T utterly corrupt and stealing taxpayer money to NOT do the job they were specifically contracted to do.

Honestly these are the types of NCO’s that we need in our military. Those who care about their subordinates well being and get genuinely pissed when they see their guys getting fucked

This shows how much AC really cares about enlisted men. The fact that the military let this company get away with this for so long is disgusting.

Let's be honest, all of us vets want Angry Cops to be the voice rep of the Army

Now see, this is why I got out of the military. The calm demeanor and infinite patience on display here is just more than I could ever muster.

As an AF Jr Enlisted that has lived on base with Belford Beauty, I greatly appreciate this video Rich. Over a year of complaints from myself going silent. Also my oven was old and barely worked, as in I couldn't get it up to temperature to cook. They told me "Well it turns on, so its not broken" I couldn't even cook a frozen pizza or brownies all the way without going another 20 minutes over the cook time

If you're not pissed, you're not paying attention. AC is definitely paying attention and I'm grateful that he is. Thanks for bringing this to all your viewers attention.

As someone who has been renting homes to servicemembers for the last 17 years, I'd like to thank base housing for being so awful.

When I was in Basic our barracks were being renovated, but the privates were doing the work while the construction company got paid for our work. And that was on top of all our other training. We tore up the tiles, removed doors, painted walls, laid no slip pads in the stairwells, and more for 6 weeks of our 8 weeks of Basic.

As a military member living in the barracks, I'm SO tempted to just show this to my commander.

I am Altus AFB and we have the "BBC" here and upper leadership loves to just look away and pretend nothing is wrong and ignore their Airman. So glad AC made a video about this. Keep up the good work!

As a former Marine that was stationed in condemned buildings in Okinawa this doesn't surprise me a bit unfortunately

"...it's almost like lower enlisted maybe make valid complaints..." The longer I am an NCO the truer I find this to be. Yes I know there are plenty of shammers, but there's so much more truth

Sadly a lot of these housing companies are super shady. I know of places where they actually put into there housing contracts that they don't have to honor the SCRA and that service members aren't allowed to video, photo, and post any issues of their housing publicly (social media). Absolutely disgusting.

The high blood pressure in this video is contagious and I'm not even in the military.

I'm no veteran, but hearing about this, and hearing it explained as accurately as humanly possible, and it just being glossed over basically, is disgusting.

I have watched this video more than 3 times while grading my students' exams. I can't get enough of it. If RU-vid had an OSCARS this man definetly deserves one. Brilliant! Brilliant!

His videos are usually pretty funny. But this one actually hits home for me. While I was stationed at Whiteman AFB, one of my troops was moving out of base housing. The house was going to be demolished so new ones could be built. BBC tried to charge them to paint the walls, put new carpet in, and some other stuff. We had to go to the Command Chief of the base to get them to back down, almost went to the base commander who was a 1-star. I've heard a lot of other horror stories.

You're helping a lot of people by bringing these kinds of issues into the forefront. Stay angry, AC, and thank you.

It’s surprising that the government will give them quarterly bonuses, but we got spoiled milk and rotten vegetables.

Videos like this are why you are so respected AC. It’s nice to know someone is so passionate about the issues of his people. Keep on doing what you do best

My favorite part of this is reading the title, knowing exactly how much Angry has to unpack on this without even clicking on the video.

All the enlisted personnel who have had entreated black mold in their housing should all file a lawsuit to this company.

Let's be honest, this was the best possible ending and that's only because it was exposed through a private journalist. If it had been a "Military investigation" from the getgo then only Miriam would have been held accountable, and everything else would have been swept under the rug.

One of the best critiques of just how bad our enlisted are treated. It reminds me of the video he did about the officer getting pissed he got assigned enlisted family housing for his family instead of officer housing.

Thanks for passionately addressing issues the actually affect enlisted. Keep it up AC!

This is the one thing that confused me with the military. The military is practically self sufficient (they don't grow food and they do buy components from outside) but it has virtually every profession that you can find in civilian life including plumbers and carpenters. But they have to use civilian contractors to perform repairs.

Holy shit. Even I got hot hearing this. How in the absolute fuck does that bbc still have a contract? I know military intelligence is a massive oxymoron but its going beyond stupid.

This is even worse than my dorm room and showers in community college! We need to treat our lower enlisted better.

First 14 years of my life were spent on Tinker AFB. It’s in Oklahoma. And I can tell you that was in the 80’s. And I learned how to fix military housing issues as a child, because of this wonderful situation! Thanks for making this video AC!

Bro the level of anger accurately represents the soldiers dealing with this shit. Thanks for doing this AC

I'm willing to bet that there's some Government employee that is receiving kick backs for the 20 million. I'm also willing to bet that nobody will ever go to prison for this.

I'm living in one of those asbestos barracks in Fort Gordon right now. Got asbestos warning signs stuck on doors throughout the building. "shrug"

I cannot like this video enough. I love how fired up you get when you point out the stupidity of these people. Keep up the good work!

I worked for Balfour Beatty right out of school as a Project Engineer on commercial construction projects. It was one of the most toxic companies I ever worked for. Sadly, not even surprised about this.

When I was stationed in Germany in the 90s we were still living in Nazi youth barracks left over from WW2, our showers were open bays like basic training so you never have any privacy but the barracks were so horrible there's no way it could be legal to live like that in the US, some rooms were empty permanently because they were such bad condition. 3 MFING YEARS PROBATION FOR STEALING 20 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, it just shows money buys your way out of trouble while the rest of us get thrown in jail over bullshit.

This is outrageous. Who do these people think they are? Average state dept employees or VA Administrators?

HELL YEAH!!! You have spoke the truth!!! You are one of the voices that needs to be heard!! God Bless You AC!!! God Bless You Brother!!!

Currently transferring and the housing I just left had black mold, plenty of cockroaches, constant flooding from broken pipes or from toilet tanks overflowing, and confirmed asbestos in an entire wing. We had a log to report it but you only did that so you wouldnt be held accountable for breaking anything if you just moved in the room. I also used to be homeless and had a better living situation then this. Thanks AC for helping bring this to light.

Its almost like government contracts are just free money for people who have no intentions of actually fulfilling their obligations.

The passion is real. Thank you for your honesty openness and love for your fellow service members. Holy shit. The soldiers Drill turns out have to be a step above the norm. Love it!

and this is the reason why i will never live in any base housing and will pay outside my BAH to buy a house at my duty stations.

If housing upset him this bad, he's gonna stroke out when he deals the nonsense of the V.A.

This all could be avoided if they didn’t go with the lowest bidding contractor and just went with whoever actually gets the work done.

Your passion for soldier welfare gives me faith in humanity.

One of the best videos you have done bro. All comedy aside. Our soldiers deserve better from the government.

AC is a top notch NCO. Period. Glad there are still guys like you serving.

I lived in one of the “mold houses” managed by Balfour Beatty at Sheppard AFB, TX. They denied any of the mold or asbestos issues, yet my house is condemned to this day (2 years later). My neighbors saw in person them deleting work orders from their system so they could collect their end of year bonus. My family along with a lot of my close friends have had so many health and mental issues such as infertility and tumors developing. We never saw a penny from them or any accepting of wrongdoing. It was the worst experience of my life

AC, I’m active duty Navy and was stationed at FE Warren. The absolute horror stories about BBC on base are astounding and obviously VERY real.

Best ever!! EuroOptic sponsor plug is awesome! Clearly the best endorsement ever. Honestly telling consumers they won’t get F’d over like the BBC.😂👍🏻 priceless! Thanks AC!

And absolutely nothing will change. Hell, they’re signing more contracts right now.

Air Force here, our privatized housing is indeed fucked. It's even worse than it should be because some of the IG staff is defending them to us during their feedback sessions where we're supposed to tell them our complaints.

When they started outsourcing all of this while I was still in, we said this would happen.

Lived in the dorms for 1 1/2 on Tinker. It took them over 3 weeks to fix a sink and we never got a new vacuum. This makes so much more sense why.

Imagine how much money is wasted because of corruption. I'd say it's at least 80% of the budget.

I believe this is the Angriest I’ve seen Angry Cops, and rightfully so. That is beyond infuriating and I really hope the right things get done to resolve it

I think that was the best sponsorship any company could of asked for. I might need an optic now with such great coverage by AC.

I think you're amazing. I have a lot of respect for your speaking out; speaking the true facts as you've experienced and seen. You put a spotlight on things that need to be known. You do it with humor and probative facts... what's not to admire about that? I think what you do here on RU-vid is very important for shedding light on some things that many people don't experience (or see) the reality of... Military life and culture. And, your coverage of the various topics offers the broader opportunity to read the comments below and get an even more varied understanding of the subject and BONUS you get more good jokes, to boot. 🤣😂💀 fkn stellar channel. Personally, I knew/know nothing, and I appreciate the knowledge and laughs you've dropped and continue to drop. Thanks for being motivated to do this and taking the initiative to actually take action.

Anyone remember when the Army was in the "people business" and they had the Civilian Facility Engineers? All you did was call them and they'd come out (just about) immediately and fix whatever was wrong TO YOUR SATISFACTION and they were polite and professional, and they came with the proper parts.

I think that blowing the whistle on this deserves a solid POB. If she hadn't done it, they would just have got to keep on defrauding your society

I really appreciate your passion for your fellow servicemen. I also find the level of corruption in the military as well as government beyond discussing (I wish AC could get his hands on a few of these f#$k) ... It might not help but it sure would be entertaining. Thanks again AC for a great video!!!!!!

Hell yes, brother. The red face is warranted, I was with you every step of this video. Even the sponsorship was frieking awesome and drove your point home even more. I can't love this video enough. You can probably guess I live in on post housing. I'm lucky with this duty station, but the one I just PCSed from was an entirely different world, and it shouldn't be like that.

I use to work for a company that did a joint venture highway project with Balfour Beatty. BB stopped paying for their half of the materials, and then pulled out and left before the project was done

Dude, my BAH in San Diego for an apartment on base housing was around $2,000 a month for a shared condo. Those bastards wouldn't even let us control the air conditioning. Inside deals going on, and someone's silk pocket is getting bigger.

I paused the other video to come watch this, thank you for enlightening us Angry drill sergeant, :)

BY FAR THE BEST PIECE OF CONTENT YOU HAVE EVER POSTED>>>THANK YOU

Imagine how angry AC would have seemed if he hadn't worn his red shirt. That shit almost looked stark white compared to his face.

The 60 mill is prob honestly not enough, the health effects of black mold and all the other things the service men and families couldn’t control is definitely something that needs to be accounted for

Angry is a HERO! Especially since he is still in. Thank you Sir!!!

So fun fact, I PCS to APG in August and I got welcome letter from someone in Balfour Beatty. What's even better is I was listening to this video as I looked over the email.

When I was active duty instead of making those calls being tired of it many of us brought our own tools and fixed the problems. We kept the receipts and people were pissed.

Always remember, it’s only illegal if someone is willing to enforce it. There will also be no accountability until people demand it.

AC, we need you ready for the good fight. You bringing attention to these issues is awesome. I suggest that you go to the range and "meditate" for some stress relief.

the USMC base in Hawaii still has contaminated water in the sinks, bullet holes in the walls, and AC chemical leaks in the public rooms. This shit will NEVER change.

I am more ashamed of the chain of command in every branch everyday. Our Service men and women have earned better treatment and leadership than they recieve. Thanks AC. Hope your day will still be good.

This is why the people that pay attention to how corrupt the govt is, will never ever trust them with anything. This is how they treat soldiers, this is the level of respect they have for people trained to kill and well armed. How much respect do you suppose they have for the average citizen? Do you think they really need the next debt celling limit raised? Do they deserve it? Have they earned it?

This video is why this channel is called angry cops. Haven't seen Hy so heated in a while. Made me smile.

I found your channel by mistake and couldn't be happier! Keep on keeping on AC

Army Vet here, I helped shut down and tear down barracks that were screwed. I also live outside Tinker AFB, in Central Oklahoma. Lots of soldiers complained about the post housing here and In 9 years, I never heard a positive thing about BBC or on post housing, not even from the officers.

The saddest part of this all is that Balfour Beatty used to be a respected company that did decent work. They did a lot of big construction projects in the 1980s and 1990s that were highly respected and awarded. Somewhere around 2000, they did what happens to so many companies - they let it go to their head. They jumped on the War on Terror contractor bandwagon, quadrupled in size (or more) and were never held accountable.

Thanks man!! Should have seen that stuff in the 80’s.

When I was in, everyone knew that the privatized housing company was crooked...no one ever followed through with the complaints of the soldiers.

Run for office. You would do far better in charge of this kind of crap then any of the cronies that are there now

Given the name of the company, one can only see in retrospect that the company would’ve given them the shaft

Thank you euro optics my boy needed it

I assume the company wasn’t fired because they didn’t want to go through the red tape of finding a new contractor

This is why i think stuff like this needs to go back to being done by the military itself like it used to. If the seabees take too long to fix something or fuck up the fix its easier to keep enlisted members straight than contractors. Plus you know that money being stolen from the feds won't really be near as big of an issue if its all done in house.

The fact you continue to re-enlist into this fuckery either speaks to your passion for service or self harm. Maybe a bit of both? Good job *pat pat*

6:08-6:18...My God, I felt like I was watching myself in a rant...glorious. This was the best, AND totally righteous as well.

when he said" what is the point in a chain of command" and "were supposed to look up to these guys" has made me decided that im not going to reenlist. heads should have been rolling. if a lower enlisted made a mistake, you can dam well bet his life would be basically ruined.

They wanted to charge me $2500.00 when I moved out of base housing in Travis AFB because I didn't use their "preferred" carpet cleaning service. Carpet cleaning is a requirement to move out. I found one who would carpet clean for $300.00 they wanted me to use one that was $700.00!!! Said I violated the agreement and wanted to charge me $2500.00!

We had 1 Marine responsible for fixing shit that broke in the barracks. His tools? 1 wrench. His experience? None. Absolutely fucking no knowledge of what to do. None.

Si, great content as always!

The way you presented the sponsor so angry, I clicked on the link so fast! It felt like I just screwed up an SOP.

Everybody is getting a kickback...meanwhile all our military service members are getting is KICKED! I know this goes to the top and their desire to get further employment after their "career" in the military is over and that is absolutely shameful!

This has me VERY HEATED! From 2015 until 2020, my entire contract, I lived in barracks with black mold, no air conditioning, broken fridges, cockroach infestations, no hot water, and one time we had no power for 30 FUCKING DAYS! Only time I had good bricks were in Okinawa where we only had roaches. In Lejeune it would take them on average 2-4 months to fix most things I mentioned with the exception of literal burst pipes that flooded the building, it only took them 2 days on that. Our building in Lejeune had an elevator that was broken the whole 2 years I was there. And for some fucking reason they'd come through and fix everything in a week when the colonel and sergeant major announce a walkthrough, including the elevator and A/C, but it'd be broken again in less than a week. God forbid the top notices disrepair on their once yearly walkthrough of the barracks. If you put in a help ticket for something that's broke, chances are if it wasn't a light bulb, it'd be broken in a week after they finally fix it anyways. We figured it's because they're trying to milk money from the help requests, but it was infuriating. When a few rooms didn't have power for 30 days, we kept a board with tallies on it that's labeled "days without power". We complained to the barracks manager, who said he complained to the company guns, and gunny said their hands were tied because they already complained to the company that fixes shit and the company told them to wait. 30 fucking days later, I went over all of their heads and went to sergeant major (widely regarded as a no-no for a regular NCO despite every one of them saying they have the open door policy) and said the company is dragging their feet, and wouldn't ya fucking know, he went to the bricks, saw our dark rooms and our board with 30 tallies on it, got pissed, blasted everybody (including me for going over their heads and a marine with a rebel flag in their room), and they got the power fixed a day later because somebody with some weight on their collar stepped in. I got a page 11 for that one by my SNCOIC because I made the whole command look like shit but if that's what it fucking took to get my Marines and I our goddamn power back then sure I'll take it. One more thing... Since we had no air conditioning for most of both summers, a couple of us got portable A/C units because the Carolina summer is HOT and not only would it make sleep impossible, it would make our only sanctuary from the bullshit so uncomfortable it sucked to be there. We got a notice from whoever is in charge of the power for the building that we're using too much power, and to remove the air conditioners immediately. We were told to remove them or get paperwork, so most of us did, but my rebellious ass plugged it in after 1700 when most staff fucked off and it worked great. I got caught eventually by a motard SDO inspecting rooms at like 0200 and caught a fat nonrec on my last 6 months in but I was livid that this was a problem in the first place. It was probably the same company responsible for fixing the A/C that's being pissy about the power usage. Those bricks were literal prison. (French Creek 504 in Camp Lejeune) And they wonder why retention is so low? My new Marines thought this was indicative of the entire Corps and it really isn't because overseas they got shit done but stateside it's just so bogged down with bureaucratic bullshit and self sucking SNCOs that they all dropped their pack and just wanted to EAS in their first 2 years. It's a shame, really, and I'm sorry for Marines that have similar experiences as I did

I paused and came to watch like you said XD much love from Philly 🖤

I called this back in 2013... when it all began. I was stationed at cannon afb and the number they had posted never worked plus their office was surrounded by fence and barbed wire. Gates were always closed.. never seen a vehicle there except once in the winter.