'Nightline' Investigation: Wounded Soldiers Told They Owe Money to Army

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:30 pm

and those guys coming back state side without all their equipment are gettnig charged too. some guy in KY, lost his arm, a kidney, his M-16, canteen, and helmet in a roadside bomb blast. the Marine Corps is charging him the price for each item he "lost"

well DUH! it all got blown to Hell like he did.

heard him talking about it in the Glen Beck radio show today.

i'll try to find it.

StupidCowboyTricks · Post by **StupidCowboyTricks** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:34 pm

I wrote about this stuff a while back and I was poo-pooed.:-1

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:37 pm

someone threw poopie at you?

dammit. how did Nomad get out of his diaper again?

StupidCowboyTricks · Post by **StupidCowboyTricks** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:38 pm

Wolverine wrote: someone threw poopie at you?

dammit. how did Nomad get out of his diaper again?

It wasn't Nomad........

wanna play catch?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:05 am

It was probably me. Was it in a thread you started? could you find it, please?

This is the kind of stuff (and I hope it's rare) that is taylor-made for sending to your congressmen. Make sure they know we don't like it and expect them to do something about it.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:57 am

Clipper wrote: Nothing will be done to correct this practice.It is Marine Corp policy. And if you think the people of this country do care about the members of our Armed Forces just go to the nearest VA Hospital and take a good hard look around. What a freaking joke! "To care for those who have borne the battle".......my ass.

This guy's Army, not Marine. It's not Army policy, is it?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:04 am

Wolverine wrote: and those guys coming back state side without all their equipment are gettnig charged too. some guy in KY, lost his arm, a kidney, his M-16, canteen, and helmet in a roadside bomb blast. the Marine Corps is charging him the price for each item he "lost"

well DUH! it all got blown to Hell like he did.

heard him talking about it in the Glen Beck radio show today.

i'll try to find it.
Sorry. Didn't realize there were two conversations going on. The Army guy was overpaid & the bureaucracy's too slow. I don't get what's 'unbelievable' about it. They didn't stop combat pay.

Wolv, do you have a link about the Marine?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:54 pm

Thanks for reminding me of this in a different thread, Snooze.

Bumping for the link about the Marine being charged for equipment lost in combat, please.

Also, about the Army guy, I don't understand the outrage about finance fixing their screw-up.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:26 pm

There are stopgaps in place to handle such things. I agree it's an outrage that the man's unit and the paid professionals and volunteers aren't all over this as soon as an injured soldier comes in, especially since the war's been going on for so long.

I don't agree that they should get their debt forgiven, but you're right that they should have "trickled" it out.

Any news about that Marine link?