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the Director of installation services

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from the office of the Deputy Chief of

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Staff G nine recently visited Fort

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Stewart . Hunter Army airfield , Mr

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Michael Ray Houser saw several

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different parts of the installation

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during his two day visit july 13th and

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14th , a large portion of the tour was

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spent viewing family housing on both

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Stewart and Hunter . Fort Stewart .

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Hunter , director of public works

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housing supervisor Doug said the visit

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by Mr Ray Houser was an opportunity to

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show the installations existing

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infrastructure and plans to move

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forward with improving the quality of

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life for soldiers and families living

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on post . Both old and new homes were

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shown and L . Z . It said the senior

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executive offered insights on how to

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move forward with those improvements .

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I think the expectation of this visit

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is to help us blobby at his location

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where he's at the pentagon , but also

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help us to have better resources to try

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to do that to be able to improve our

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current inventory and also to replace

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our legacy housing . Because we do ,

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we're at a point where a lot of this

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legacy housing is needing to be

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replaced , were right now putting

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lipstick on a pig and a lot of this and

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it's just to the point where it's aged .

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We've done pretty much what we can with

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it . It's time to do some changes and

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some improvements it is Mr Ray Houser

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also saw barracks lodging and fire

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departments here and was briefed on the

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environmental probe Garrison Commander .

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Colonel Manny Ramirez said the visit

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was very important for the installation

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because it let Mr Ray Houser see in

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real time the operations at Fort

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Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield . We

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talked about some of the things that

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we're doing great that we're doing

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right , but we have a lot of award

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winning programs here at Fort Stewart

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who got to brag about that . But we

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also told him about some of the

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difficulties we're facing with aging

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infrastructure , some of the housing

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problems and the barracks problems that

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we've been experiencing . So hopefully

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that he takes that story back to the

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pentagon . The hope is that the visit

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will result in improving the

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installations quality of life from Fort

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Stewart . This is kevin Larson .