since then, army leaders have traveled to fort bragg, fort campbell and west point to conduct our on housing business and meet with families and leadership. over the last three weeks, army installations have conducted town hall meetings in collaboration with the rci contractors in addition to establishing housing hotlines. this is provided -- has provided families a forum to report problems directly to commanders. and we also ordered all senior commanders to complete a 100% screening of installation housing by march 18th. where life, health and safety issues exist, commanders are instructed to immediately relocate housing residents until the housing conditions are remediated. this screening process is ongoing. today, we have completed over 19,000 housing visits. we have also met with the ceos or senior executives from each of the seven privatized housing companies to discuss the current problems. the poor customer service, lack of work order transparency, and ability of residents to hold the hunting does housing companies accountable were presented during the townhouse. all of our ho

. >> reporter: rachel, army specialist, took a job in fort bragg, north carolina.o, they moved into this house. >> when you tned on the shower head, green sludge came out. water leaking. >> reporteng water see through the back door, termite damage and, worst of all, mold. multiple request for repairs went to corv aias, one of the my private companies that manage these. >> they told us to stay in our lane. we didn't know what we were talking about. >> reporter: then problems brought on by the >> went to the er four, five times. >> reporter: the military family network did a survey. 55% had a negative or very negative experience with privatized military housing. a respondentoss the country in housing under different management companies describe instances of black mold,en lead as bettbestos. some reported medical ailments. corvias' ceo testified in congress last month. >> we let down some of our residents. i'm sorry, and we're going to fix it. >> reporter: the company is working to reduce the backlo of work orders and improve response time to service requests. secret

esper: i visited fort meade and fort bragg and supposed to go to fort belfour next week. every time i visit and installation i visit families. chairman: chief? >> in terms of the timeline, similar. the july august timeframe for the lead in and october/november started becoming aware of reports on mode and it -- on mold and it came to the wish and. chairman: i appreciate the meeting you have given me. secretary wilson. secretary wilson: i have visited air force bases. awareness of the problems, the air force was aware of construction defects at four basis and on page 78 of the hand out in front of you. it highlights those days where we were aware of construction defects. taking.ons i was while the air force was managing projects and getting construction defects taking care of, what we did not understand is the climate trust and confidence in the arm and the problems with fixed. that is to me the most important part of the hearing you had that brought that for them to us. i will --: chairman: i will add -- went to an air force base. of findings were reflective the commandin

the homes i saw in fort bragg, they were not doing that. in other places, the chief and i and other members of the chain of command, they are not maintaining it. >> thank you. secretary spencer. >> i reverberate what secretary esper just said. we have one of the best health care systems around for our sailors, soldiers, marines, guardsmen, and their families. number one is their health. two is accountability. agreementsoperating have the requirement for the product they have to deliver. they will be held to that standard in the contract. >> thank you. secretary wilson. >> with respect to the health issues, the most important thing is to go to the military treatment facility and get evaluated and treated and have it documented. each of our bases have legal assistance to help family members identify what their options i and to be able to work those through with respect to a claim towards the provider, but it raises another issue. >> senator, central to your question is what the chairman brought up in the beginning is what do we know and how d

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thank you both for being here i was down at fort bragg this past friday with secretary esper and we were talking with folks there who are in unacceptable housing conditions. we also talked a little bit about that had a number of discussions of the past with families about some other household belongings being moved., the bottlenecks and unsatisfactory service. so i like the idea of taking a personal property program into what i would consider to be one of throat to choke sort of model. but i'd really like to make if you could briefly describe where you think this is going to end up, i really want to make sure we get this right in terms of accountability, predictability, and customer satisfaction and so that any relationship we create with this confederation of movers, i guess you will have to a consolidator but still a number of individual providers. we have to get the compensation and accountability models right to the we don't end up here honestly trying to do a good thing and then ending up where we are with housing situation. can you give me some assurances or briefly describe how th

since then, army senior leaders have traveled to fort bragg, fort campbell and west point to conduct our own housing visits and to meet with families. over the past three weeks, army installations have conducted town hall meetings in collaboration with the rci contractors in addition to establishing housing hotlines. this has provided families a forum to voice their concerns and report problems directly to commanders. we also ordered all senior commanders to complete a 100% screening of their installation housing by march 18. where life, health and safety issues exist, they have been instructed to immediately relocate them to temporary quarters. this is ongoing. we have completed over 19,000 housing visits. we have met with the ceos or senior executives with the privatizing companies to discuss lack of work order transparency, inability to hold the housing companiey s akounies accountabl common themes. they committed to working together to increase transparency. additionally, they agreed to ensure sufficient numbers of trained technicians and staff are available at each installation

i went to fort bragg on friday and it was amazing to see these people apprehensive about reporting that they have mold growing on their walls. imagine a person who has been the victim of sexual assault. having to come out and have trust that they will have the support of their commanders. i know not everybody accused is guilty. that is why we have a legal process that we go through to determine guilt or innocence. we need to show respect for all the parties and keep the information in the utmost confidence. clears to be accountability for anybody sharing this information along the way. i want to thank you all for being here today. i tend to go last so that i can go over. i appreciate you indulging me. this is only the beginning. we will be asking additional questions and further suggestions on how to improve things. i want to see how some of our allies have done this and learned from their strengths and weaknesses. their own implementation failures. i tend to agree with the positions, but we can get better. thank you all for being here. meeting is adjourned. >> here is some of what we a

in fayetteville my hometown which sits underneath fort bragg two massive va facilities, the new one is leased, they don't have to worry about hvac or the lawn, it concentrates on taking care of veterans. we have to be more creative in terms of two things. we need to get more incentives and i want to come to this committee and talk about it something like a veteran peace corps. to give professionals into areas like rural west virginia. , western north carolina and provide the means to serve those veterans in communities hard to reach. the highest percentage of services of anyone in the country. >> senator kramer. >> thank you mr. secretary for being here. thank you for our previous discussion and i will ask you and you can do further questions to others if it is more appropriate. you mentioned, you talked a fair bit about alternatives to pain management. alternatives to opioids and you talked about some things like acupuncture and other types of care. but you did not mention hyperbaric oxygen treatment. chamber treatment. and particularly for pain, it is supposed to be quite effective f

i was down, again, i was down at fort bragg on friday and it was amazing to me to see these young people apprehensive about reporting that they have mold growing on their walls, right? imagine somebody who's been a victim of sexual assault. the bar that that raises to for them to actually come out and have trust and feel like they'll get -- they'll have the support of their command as they're going through it. i know not everybody who's accused is guilty. that's why we have a legal process that we are -- that we have to go through and determine guilt or innocence, but all along the way, we need to show respect for all the parties. we need to keep their information in the utmost confidence and there needs to be very clear accountability for anybody who's sharing this information along the way. well, i want to thank you all for being here today. i tend to go last so that i can go over and i appreciate you all indulging me on two or three times more time than i had but this is only the beginning. we'll be asking you additional questions. we'll be asking you for suggestions on how we can imp