about the soldier's $700 armor bill wasn't isolated
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/...0/abandon1.htm

He lost an arm in Iraq; the Army wants money

http://obama.senate.gov/blog/050412-...ter/index.html

"Recently, I learned that some of our most severely wounded soldiers are being forced to pay for their own meals and their own phone calls while being treated in medical hospitals"

http://www.federaltimes.com/index.php?S=1028831

"? Ninety-four percent of the mobilized Army National Guard and Reserve soldiers who GAO investigated had pay problems. These problems distracted soldiers from their missions, imposed financial hardships on their families, and hurt retention."


http://www.famedetroit.org/debt.htm?id=3220

"When Kelly left the military last year, he recalled, "it was an intense, emotional time." He thought little of the final two checks totaling $2,700 because he was owed vacation and travel pay, he said. Later, he was bewildered as pay stubs continued to come in the mail, each blank except for a notation of a $2,230 debt."

http://www.unknownnews.net/stt.html

A plethora of ways the military is being screwed.
eg420ne Reviewed by eg420ne on . No more free rides say's Government! The last time 1st Lt. William ??Eddie? Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood. A field medic tied a tourniquet around Rebrook??s right arm to stanch the bleeding from shrapnel wounds. Soldiers yanked off his blood-soaked body armor. He never saw it again. But last week, Rebrook was forced to pay $700 for that body armor, blown up by a roadside bomb more than a year ago. Rating: 5