The Marine Corps announced Wednesday that it will conduct a "wall-to-wall inspection" of all its barracks following recent reports of squalid living conditions."Effective immediately‚ Marine Corps Installations Command will conduct an environmental‚ health‚ and safety inspection of all Marine Corps barracks to ensure service compliance with its commitment to its residents to provide a safe‚ secure‚ clean‚ and consistent living standard across the unaccompanied housing enterprise‚" according to a press release by the Marine Corps.Major General David Maxwell‚ MCICOM Commander‚ stated that the service-wide inspection would allow the Marine Corps to get a complete assessment."The benefit as we transition to professional management will be that we have a point of reference for the condition of each barracks. This will enable our senior leaders to understand the totality of issues regarding their facility and get to quickly solving their problems‚" Maxwell explained.The Marine Corps noted that it aims to "improve our Marines' quality of life" by investing in the barracks.Installation Commanders‚ leaders outside the chain of command responsible for the barracks‚ will be in charge of conducting inspections by March 15‚ 2024.Assistant Commandant General Christopher Mahoney called it a "wall-to-wall inspection‚" claiming it would provide "a good baseline understanding of the condition of all our barracks so we can identify and allocate resources accordingly.""We're going to take a look at every single barracks room‚ every squad bay‚ to ensure the health‚ well-being and safety of each and every one of you‚" Mahoney vowed.According to Commandant General Eric Smith‚ the barracks are over 30 years old on average.Photos shared in 2021 by a Marine showed moldy barracks in North Carolina's Camp Lejeune. Last month‚ pictures posted to Reddit purported to show mold and a dead rodent at California's Camp Pendleton.A September Government Accountability Office report revealed that the Department of Defense's military barracks pose "potentially serious health and safety risks‚" Blaze News previously reported.Following the inspection of 10 campuses‚ the GAO found that service members frequently dealt with "clogged showers‚ broken door locks‚ broken elevators‚ and apparent mold growth." As of March 2023‚ about 17‚000 Marines were living in "substandard barracks‚" the report stated.The GAO recommended that the Marine Corps update its "minimum standards for assignment to barracks to ensure they reflect DOD guidance on health and safety standards for barracks once DOD's minimum standards have been clarified." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

No matter what suffering‚ loss‚ or devastation you go through in life‚ there is always something worth living for. This message is the beating heart of the latest entry in the Toho Godzilla franchise‚ "Godzilla Minus One." The new film takes the iconic Kaiju back to his roots in a story set in postwar Japan‚ a brutal time that allows the movie to explore the resilience of the human spirit as it comes to terms with loss and regret. It's rare to find this kind of depth in any American movie today‚ let alone in a masterfully crafted‚ crowd-pleasing action pic. Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is kamikaze war pilot who feigns mechanical difficulties to avoid completing his suicide mission. When Godzilla attacks the repair island he lands on‚ he freezes‚ unable to shoot the monster from his plane. This results in the death of all engineers on the island but one‚ who pins the blame on Shikishima and his cowardice. Guilt-ridden and shamed by his neighbors upon returning home‚ Shikishima tries to move on‚ taking in a homeless woman with a baby who was abandoned by her parents. The two agree to raise the child‚ and over the years they become a sort of family‚ despite his unwillingness to accept them as such. He serves as gunman on a minesweeper‚ joining a ragtag team of war vets. What peace our hero finds is short-lived. Godzilla re-emerges twice as large and twice as strong to bring devastation to the whole of Japan. With the government unwilling to aid the people‚ Shikishima joins the citizens' army that has formed to take out Godzilla themselves. The franchise reaches new heights in the depiction of this battle‚ with scenes of beautifully staged monster mayhem. But it is Shikishima's internal struggle that elevates the film emotionally and sets it apart from its predecessors. Can this failed kamikaze pilot learn to let go of the past and embrace a new kind of sacrifice — to honor the fallen by carrying on? It's rare to find this kind of depth in any American movie today‚ let alone in a masterfully crafted‚ crowd-pleasing action pic. And audiences have clearly been desperate for such rich entertainment instead of the usual ideologically driven remakes and feel-bad fables of racial division. Toho Godzilla's rampage through the international and domestic box office shows how defenseless Hollywood is against any would-be conquerers. Will this spring's U.S. production "Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire" put up any fight? Not to sound unpatriotic‚ but humiliating defeat wouldn't be all bad. As far as wake-up calls go‚ you could do worse than a 20‚000-ton radioactive lizard.

Democrats love to cite a slew of humanitarian reasons to justify their open border policies‚ such as providing asylum for those fleeing poverty‚ war‚ and violence. But according to Kentucky Senator Rand Paul‚ “Immigration is about power politics” and “has nothing to do with the individuals” migrating here. “If you talk to these people” and ask if they “care about the little kids coming across [or] what might happen to teenage girls coming across‚ they don't care about that. All they care about is votes; their whole goal is to take Texas‚” Paul tells Dave Rubin. Even the new border bill‚ which proposes allowing up to 5‚000 migrants into the country per day (1.8 million per year) before any action is taken‚ is proof of this. “After 1.8 million a year‚ the rules aren't very strong. They give the discretion to [Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas]‚” who just barely escaped impeachment yesterday‚ Paul explains. “Meanwhile‚ the Biden campaign is cutting the razor wire and removing the cargo containers that are essentially a wall on the border‚” so “we're going to negotiate with them and trust them to use new power when they're right now using their [current] power to disrupt the border wall?” “I'm actually not against immigration; I'm actually for more lawful immigration‚” Paul continues‚ “but they need to be these little narrow bills‚ but instead they say‚ ‘We'll increase employment- based or work-based visas but only if you give the 18 million people already here the right to vote.” “I'm pretty open on this issue; I would give work permits even to those who came here illegally ... but I'm not giving them the right to vote.” He continues‚ “So‚ we've stayed at a standstill for the 12 years I've been here. No immigration changes have happened ... none of it happens because the Democrats say‚ ‘All or nothing.”’ “What do you think the Democrats’ intentions are?” asks Dave. “All they care about is votes‚” especially in Texas‚ Paul explains. “The only way they take Texas is to legalize a couple of million people here illegally and let them vote.” To hear the full conversation‚ watch the clip below. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations‚ free speech‚ and big ideas with Dave Rubin‚ subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America‚ defend the Constitution‚ and live the American dream.

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