Barracks Rumor Mill cover: full-frame photo of 3rd Cavalry Regiment soldiers in OCPs uncasing colors at Camp Hovey, with the headline "Camp Hovey Soldiers Say the Mold Fix Was Spray It With a Spray" over a dark band and a small BLDG 3535 stamp.

Camp Hovey Soldiers Say the Mold Fix Was "Spray It With a Spray"

October 28, 2026

Soldiers at Camp Hovey, South Korea, say their barracks have mold and bad ventilation. They say they took it up the chain and got told to “spray it with a spray.”

Camp Hovey sits about 15 miles from the North Korean border. The unit in those rooms started a nine-month rotation there on Oct. 16.

What the soldier posted

An anonymous soldier posted photos on a barracks review app on Oct. 20.
The post named Building 3535 and soldiers from 1st Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment.
The photos show a stained mattress and dark stuff on bathroom floors, walls and ceilings. Nobody has confirmed the dark stuff is mold.
The soldier said the complaints went “to the top 5” with no help.
“We have soldiers getting sick in these barracks and yet nothing,” the soldier wrote. “They refuse to house us anywhere else let alone deal with the issues.”

The timeline

Oct. 16: the 3rd Cavalry Regiment uncased its colors at Camp Hovey as the 18th Korea Rotational Force.
Oct. 19: Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer was named senior advisor to the Pentagon’s barracks task force.
Oct. 20: the photos went up.
Oct. 23: the app tagged Meyer on X with photos of the rooms.
Oct. 26: the garrison and the 2nd Infantry Division answered by email.

What the Army says

The garrison commander, Col. Chris Choi, said leaders inspected the rooms and started maintenance.
He said the problems were logged in the Army Maintenance Application before the post went up.
He said the buildings are set aside for rotational units and the problems were found during the swap between the outgoing and incoming units.
Public works crews have started on the fixes.
The division says it is reviewing possible mold, bedding and ventilation.
Choi wrote that soldiers “deserve safe, healthy and properly maintained living conditions.”

The Meyer clock

As of Oct. 28, the review app’s own tracker shows 9 days since Meyer’s announcement, no deadline and no update logged.

For the bay

The rotation runs nine months. That’s a lot of nights in Building 3535.
If your room looks like those photos, put in the work order and screenshot it. The garrison’s first answer was that the tickets were already in the system.

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Cover photo: The 3rd Cavalry Regiment uncases its colors during a ceremony at Hovey Field, Camp Hovey, South Korea, marking the start of its mission as the 18th Korea Rotational Force, Oct. 16, 2026. U.S. Army photo by Lt. Col. Arturo Rodriguez, 2nd Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division, via DVIDS (ID 10036493), https://www.dvidshub.net/image/10036493/brave-rifles-return-3rd-cavalry-regiment-uncases-colors. The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement.