tileman1814
Kalispell, MT
67, joined Nov. 2007
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This goddamn sure pisses me off!!This is just one more way the obama f**kheads are screwing our military.Read the whole story at Fox News.
It's time for a full scale armed revolution to take our country back from both sides!
Semper Fi !!!
The Pentagon is seeking to recover decade-old reenlistment bonuses paid to thousands of California Army National Guard soldiers to go fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
The paper reported that nearly 10,000 soldiers, many of whom risked their lives during multiple combat tours, have been ordered to repay the cash bonuses after audits revealed widespread overpayments by California Guard officials under pressure to meet enlistment targets at the height of the wars 10 years ago.
But soldiers say the military is reneging on old agreements and imposing severe financial hardship on those whose only mistake was to accept the bonuses, which amounted to $15,000 or more.
The Army asked wounded Iraq veteran and former Army captain Christopher Van Meter, 42, to repay a $25,000 reenlistment bonus it said he was ineligible to receive. He was also asked to repay $21,000 in student loan repayments.
Van Meter told the paper that rather than fight the Army he paid back the money after refinancing his home.
“These bonuses were used to keep people in,” Van Meter said. “People like me just got screwed.”
The Times reported that 48-year-old Army sergeant Robert Richmond, who suffered permanent injuries in an Iraq roadside bomb attack, is refusing to repay his $15,000 cash bonus. The Army contends he was ineligible to receive the bonus in 2006 because he had already served 20 years in the Army.
“I signed a contract that I literally risked my life to fulfill,” Richmond told the paper. “We want somebody in the government, anybody, to say this is wrong and we’ll stop going after his money.”
Investigations determined that fraud and mismanagement due to poor oversight contributed to the California Guard bonus overpayments, according to the Times.
California Guard officials conceded to the paper that taking back the money from military veterans is distasteful.
“At the end of the day, the soldiers ended up paying the largest price,” Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, deputy commander of the California Guard, said. “We’d be more than happy to absolve these people of their debts. We just can’t do it. We’d be breaking the law.”
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theindytechguy
Atlanta, GA
57, joined Dec. 2013
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Sounds like Gen. Beevers needs to read up on contract law.
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sureshot40
Drumright, OK
48, joined Apr. 2011
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Don't know for sure, but the way I understand it, it was a contractor that over paid the soldiers. I just imagine that the contractor got paid by a percentage or for application fees, accountant fees, give soldiers the money quickly for more fees. Sounds like loan shark contractors taking advantage of young soldiers. I bet the contractor had some political elite connections.
My point is it was wrong doing by contractors, not soldiers and the contractors should pay not soldiers.
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theindytechguy
Atlanta, GA
57, joined Dec. 2013
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Welp government contractors just as contractors for school systems are nothing but a JOBS PROGRAM for the favored few and usually employs people with no real abilities.
That's right folks I'm focusing on government schools and the harm the cause society at large probably for the next year at least.
I welcome all rebuttals from upper echelon government indoctrination facilitators who monitor this forum.  They won't answer because they know they don't have a leg to stand on.
God bless our veterans. Let them keep the money.
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