The leadership does the best they can with what they have. There is a war on you know? Much military construction and maintenance across DoD has been deferred. Many (not all) of the dorms at great schools are a bit dated. If you are picking a school based on that rather than the experience and education, then you have different values and priorities. My son called one day last winter and joked about how the heat was out again and they were all wearing their winter gear in the barracks but were making the most of it and had adapted. The hot water goes out every now and then and the electric infrastructure was built in many of the buildings long before computers came around. I realized he had finally internalized part of the Army spirit one day over spring break when I complained about something and his answer was “ Maybe the Chaplin cares dad, suck it up and drive on” My wife cracked up laughing as I stood there. Right now they are on the FTX at Buckner eating one meal a day and sleeping under ponchos in the pouring rain and are having a great time. He is learning to “ embrace the suck” as he said right before he left. Those conditions are palatial compared to some of the FOBs in Afghanistan right now. Oh, and as they said when I was a cadet and still do, “It is a $400,000 dollar experience, shoved up your butt a nickel at a time” but most wouldn’t trade it for anything once its done.