Barracks

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Barracks is usally used to connote a type of military housing. It is a type of housing. The term can be used to indicate a building in which convicts are housed.

Military

NCOs and enlisted personnel will frequently be housed in barracks for service or training. Lower level NCOs will be housed in larger numbers where as higher ranking NCOs or officers will be housed in fewer numbers. Garrison town is a common expression for any town that has a military barracks.

History of Barracks

There are a number of remains of Roman army barracks in frontier forts such as Houseteads and Vindolanda. From these and from contemporary Roman sources we can see that the basics of life in a military camp have remained constant for thousands of years.

Before 1780, these types of dewllings were not widely known in Britain.

Barracks blockhouses were used to house troops in forts in Upper Canada.

In WWII, many U. S. Barracks resembled Native American long house (being semi-circular but made out of metal).