It is important to maintain a clean and sanitary living environment for multiple reasons. One of the reasons is that it is a threat to public health in the barracks if even just one of the soldiers is living in unsanitary conditions, then through frequent contact throughout the day with other soldiers that one soldier, if he or she becomes sick, could cause other soldiers to become sick. When one soldier becomes the source of other soldiers being sick then that soldier could be face possible punishment under Article 134 of the Universal Code of Military Justice for Article 134 states as follows: 934. ART. 134. GENERAL ARTICLE
Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court. And whenever soldiers are being unsanitary in their living quarters and causing other soldiers to become sick then they are bringing discredit upon their Section Chief or Squad Leader, their Smoke or Platoon Sergeant, their First Sergeant, their Commander, the Army and the Armed Services as a whole. Not to mention they bring discredit upon everyone who has ever served with dignity and respect for their country. And unsanitary conditions usually exist when soldiers neglect their living quarters or refuse to clean up after themselves for whatever reason. Whether they were raised that way or they were never taught how to pick up after themselves, it does not matter because once they put on the uniform of a United States soldier then the training and discipline they were taught at Basic