WASHINGTON -- Senator Russ Feingold is urging the Defense Department to investigate bad conditions at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which were recently captured on videotape by a Wisconsin man visiting his son there.
Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, also is calling on the Army to make sure any service member living in unsafe conditions at Fort Bragg is relocated to safe and acceptable housing.
Ed Frawley of Menomonie says he was disgusted by conditions that greeted his son and other members of the 82nd Airborne unit that returned this month after a 15-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.
His videotape shows mold inside the barracks, peeling interior paint and a bathroom drain plugged with sewage.
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