India, Nov. 7 -- WASHINGTON - Some have gone a year without hot water. Others are sleeping in their cars to escape rooms with no air conditioning. Others are still asking only for a door that locks, a working light bulb, a place to wash their clothes, a wall free of mould.

Those are among the conditions Medal of Honour recipient Dakota Meyer says he has encountered while touring military installations on a mission from US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: fix a barracks system plagued by decades of neglect.

"I would tell you that there's only a couple that I've seen that are good," Meyer told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday.

Meyer, who serves as senior adviser to the Pentagon's Barracks Task Force, has visited more than eight in...