Soldier shot in Iraq billed for missing military gear

[Swede]

WTF?!


"I remember grabbing a hold of my leg, and realizing I had blood on my hands," he said. "And from that point on until I got loaded onto the Stryker was just a big blur."

Three days after he was shot, Pfleider received a Purple Heart.

Almost two years later, he received a bill from the military for missing equipment.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/95168184.html

[Greg K]

1. That's just wrong. eom.

[EFerrari]

2. We really are just meat with bank accounts to these @ssholes. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

3. It is past time to just load up the people in these two wars

and bring them home. This country really has their priorities messed up

[katandmoon]

4. That is so beyond outrageous there's no word for it. I hope he's contacted his congressperson.

That's why I think anybody who joins the military is fucking insane though.

[sakabatou]

5. Disgusting

[qazplm]

6. there is a process for this

it is called a report of survey.

It should have been initiated before he ever left active duty, and it had been, he would have been absolved of the charges (in all likelihood).

Because it wasn't, then the system just showed that he left active duty without turning in equipment and thus he was billed.

Not defending anyone here, the system failed him here, or more likely someone in the system didn't do their job before he left active duty.

[MrScorpio]

9. BinGO!

That's exactly what should have happened.

We have a case here of the military bureaucracy running amok.

[Rhythm]

7. I saw this earlier, and it made me f'ing furious...

I mean, it's one thing if you reached your discharge date, didn't re-up, and didn't turn in all of the gear they want back.

It's quite another to be supine and choppered-out, and having no damned idea where the stuff you had might have gone while medics and your buddies were trying to stop you from bleeding to death.

These regulations and procedures need to be fixed, because this sort of crap is like spitting in the face of the wounded.

Fucking ridiculous.

[lpbk2713]

8. We need to send Bush & Cheney a bill under the same principle then.

There was a big surplus in the Treasury when their evil Regime took office and
a huge deficit when they left. Today they're laughing all the way to the bank.