"barracks about" is not a grammatically correct or commonly used phrase in written English.
It is possible that it is being used in regional dialects or slang, but it would not be considered standard English.
The spokesman for the province, Roullah Samoun, said the attack occurred after sundown in a barracks about 35 miles east of Gardez.
It began Thursday when about 30 officers and their wives seized an elite unit's barracks about 100 yards from the presidential palace.
In remarks to service members and their families who packed the bleachers in the barracks about two and a half blocks from where the killings took place last week, Mr. Obama vowed that he would not accept inaction after the latest in a string of mass shootings during his presidency.
A weathered two-story barracks, about a mile from the ferry landing on the 740-acre island, is about all that's left of the immigration station, but in the building you can still see poems of bitterness and despair scratched into walls by immigrants during their sometimes lengthy detentions.
He centered his first visit to the city where the attacks happened on lauding the military, which could seem like a snub to the failed efforts by the international experts to question soldiers from the Iguala barracks about what happened on the night the students disappeared.
The Camp 1 Wohnlager residential compound contained barracks for about 700 Sonderkommandos which, when combined with the 300 Totenjuden living across from the gas chambers, brought their grand total to roughly one thousand at any given time.
He is in a barracks, shared with about 20 others.
"I spend all seven days by myself in a cell in the barracks for prisoners about to be executed," he said.
Late one afternoon, when he and about twenty other G.I.s putting up a barracks were about to knock off for the day, he saw a fellow-carpenter, Boyd Greenacre, detach himself from the crew to have a talk with a passing chaplain, a blond, long-nosed six-footer wearing a captain's bars; the two men, Eriksson could see, were on cordial terms.
According to fragmentary official statements and confirmed data, the secret service of Turkey, MIT, had already been informed about "activity" inside the army headquarters and barracks at about 3pm or 4pm on July 15th.
The barracks house about 800 illegal immigrants, many from the Middle East and Afghanistan.
