Many jobs stay open well past six months. Getting even a small repair accomplished in a month is fortunate. Our Metals Technology and Structural Maintenance shops went without heat all of last winter and half of this winter until it was repaired last week. Many other examples abound. Under our current system, even if we get new facilities keeping the internal systems going will be a constant challenge since the resources aren't in place to keep them running.
New facilities are a fantastic thing when they meet the user's requirements.
We're grateful for whatever we get, but the minimalist approach leads to many future improvement expenditures that probably cost more in the end. If the US pays into NATO funds then we ought to be determining the standard of the infrastructure being built for us with those funds. It's important to note that our infrastructure limitations affect our work production and Quality of Life. Solving those limitations has become a heavily involved task requiring continuous follow up to achieve results and then usually over several weeks or months. Supervisors are being pulled away from primary functions to contend with facility breakdowns.