Inside Haley Britzky's Exposé of Shoddy Military Housing

"If the military wants to preach this idea of 'Recruiting Soldiers and Retaining Families,' well, they’re not going to retain families in homes like this."

When Haley Britzky arrived at Task & Purpose from Axios two years ago, she dove headfirst into one of the toughest news beats around: the U.S. Army.

Covering any military branch is a real challenge for a host of reasons, chiefly that the Pentagon is a massive and astonishingly complex bureaucracy largely shrouded in secrecy. Seemingly everything is cla…