— Scores of Fort Bragg soldiers and family members complained Friday to U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis about their military housing.

The town hall meeting was the latest in a series of stops Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, is making at military installations. He visited Camp Lejeune last month and is expected back at Fort Bragg in October.

About 200 people bombarded him with complaints about flooding, structural damage and extremely long wait times for contractors to make repairs. But the No. 1 issue was about mold in housing on post.

Parents complained children were getting sick and some soldier were developing health issues that will eventually lead to them being forced out of the service.

"I've seen the mold, and it's legit," Krista Lindholm said of mold in a neighbor's house. "They're sick, their kids are sick and housing is just not coming and dealing with it."

"These folks have recurring pneumonia all the time, and the asthma [and] COPD, and the doctors all tell them that it related to the mold in their blood," said state Rep. Billy Richardson, D-Cumberland.

In addition to family members getting sick, soldiers said they fear developing health issues that will eventually lead to them being forced out of the service.

Tillis said problems with military housing won't be fixed overnight, but he said he hopes the information he gathers at town hall meetings helps him put things in place to speed up the process.

"At every one of these town hall meetings, I ask people to call my office and open up a case so that we make sure we prioritize where medical professionals have said the conditions in the home are most likely the root cause of their health conditions," he said. "We've got to get those as quickly as possible."

During the meeting, someone suggested that Fort Bragg commanders be given authority to hold the government contractors that provide military housing on post to the same standards civilian landlords must meet.

If repairs to homes soldiers stay in off post aren't made in a timely manner, Fort Bragg has the ability to blacklist the landlord and not allow soldier to stay in any of that landlord's property.