Soldier Ordered To Repay Army ($916-He volunteered for Iraq)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/3584114/detail.html

Make no mistake about how dangerous Wilson's job in Baghdad is. His best friend and roommate was killed two months ago in a bomb blast.

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When U.S. forces invaded Iraq, Wilson wanted to be there, but his reserve unit had not been called up. He arranged for a transfer from reserve to active duty Army. Within weeks, he was sent to Iraq.

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But the Army had an unwelcome surprise for Pvt. Wilson. In a letter, they told him that because he transferred to active duty, he had breached his contract with his reserve unit and had to repay $916 that was given to him as a signing bonus when he enlisted.

[aquart]

1. There are no words.

[faithnotgreed]

2. pray for these people is about all i can come up with. they are beyond

comprehension

[aquart]

3. Not comprehension. Redemption.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. Did they supply him with the proper equipment, or will he have to pay....

...for that, too? You know, stuff like body armor, food, ammo, water...the list goes on.

[Longhorn]

13. Actually, they're given a list of things to bring.

My son is a Marine and while he hasn't deployed to Iraq, I know several Marine moms whose sons have gone. They said they spent between $500 and $1000 to buy everything on the list that they are REQUIRED to bring.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

14. Holy cow. This is completely unsat.

[Vert]

5. Gee...

This really makes people want to enlist. "Sign up for the reserve! Oh, and if you volunteer to put yourself in danger, you'll have to repay your bonus."

[InkAddict]

6. Why am I not surprised?

We received an invoice for $4.19 with a threatening letter saying all overpayments of UE MUST be returned to UE to continue any benefits, after we'd rolled off.

One month later, we get a check for $3/something back with a letter saying something about a credit.

Very scary bean counting of all kinds going on!

[MrSlayer]

7. Well that $900 might break them.

It's not like they have billions and billions to throw aw......Oh that's right, they do. Scum.

[Solly Mack]

8. They do shit like this all the time

I will not burden you with horror story upon horror story but this is par for the course treatment of ALL soldiers.

[steely]

12. Yea, they pull arcane rules out of their arses all the time. eom

[Th1onein]

9. Huh?

[rfkrocks]

10. No Shame but will we Americans object? or will we be soylent green?

[No Passaran]

11. what a shame

They said in a letter that PVT Wilson breached his contract. What about a breach of contract by implementing Stop Loss? Who's gonna pay me for doing extra 12 months because of Stop Loss?