Sorry, but a bit of a long rant here.
Yesterday myself and around 12 of our junior enlisted spent around 4 hours moving one of my neighbors (same unit, different platoon) out of her house. She apparently was supposed to have already cleared housing over two weeks ago, after being chaptered out for being overweight. And I learned later she was already on a 90 day extension.
I cannot explain what failures preceded today, only that I personally was in the middle of this week's training meeting earlier yesterday, when my 1SG bursted in loudly stating "Sergeant SakuGoliath, one of your neighbors needs to be completely moved out by 1500, if we can't we'll have to explain to the brigade cdr blah blah". "Take some of those shops guys not already engaged and help her move out please".
I was puzzled, but nonetheless I knew who he was talking about because I remembered the Uhaul sitting there. She was a single mom of two, grandmother lived with her. So I gathered some men and we all drove out to her house.
What we walked into, was complete filth. Not only did she make no effort to pack up her things or clean or anything, despite knowing she was getting kicked out for months. It was completely filthy. There was trash everywhere, stained rotten carpet, bugs etc. Random alcohol bottles throughout the house, knives out in random places. It was almost like an episode of Hoarders. And worse she had two children.
We started working immediately. I grabbed some boxes that I had left over from my last PCS, and we gathered tape, lots of bags, and newspaper. A personal trailer had been brought by another NCO. I didn't care to ask how she wanted things packed. I told the men to just get like items consolidated and pack accordingly and put in the Uhaul trailer.
About 45 mins later my 1SG called. Someone told him the situation.
He ended up coming over to this house himself, and the look on his face was funny. He stood there watching guys awkwardly trying to pack things in bags, shoving random shit into boxes. Myself and another guy were taking out tvs. House was obviously still a mess, he could clearly see she was not going to be moved out in the next 15 mins. So he called for 6 more individuals and we kept on.
Eventually her mom just started crying, idk if it was embarrassment or that everything was too much for her. Very awkward, so we went to get the soldier. We found this shit bag sitting in her bathroom, on her cell phone, I'm not kidding. So we told her to go hug her mom or something, because she was very upset.
About an hour and a half later we finally got all the shit out of there, I even took some big trash items over to my car port. (Wife isn't happy about that) Her PL signed her out of post. The housing authority lady said that she's going to be charged a large sum of money, for the state of the house.
Overall, on several levels I guess I just feel bad for the kids. The whole thing has kind of disturbed me. I don't understand why this happened. Why she was okay with living that way, or how she just didn't do anything for so long when something obviously had to be done. She was an NCO to boot.
Rant over, trying to get it off my mind.
*tdlr
My leadership directed me to assemble a team to move out my overweight chaptered neighbor within 2 hours, house was a disgusting mess, CPS could have been called
