The U.S. Navy forgot its families in Bahrain purgatory
Six months after the conflict started, over 1,000 dependents are still living out of suitcases wondering if anyone remembers them.
When the balloon went up in Bahrain, the U.S. Navy did the sensible thing and cleared out the families. That was half a year ago. Now, those same families are still stuck in limbo, drifting between temporary housing and total uncertainty.
Nobody seems to have a roadmap for what happens next. They are literally living out of boxes while waiting for a memo that might never come. It is the classic bureaucratic black hole where everyone is waiting for someone else to make a call, and meanwhile, lives are just on permanent pause.
The Pentagon seems to have mastered the art of losing people in plain sight.
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