Just say, “NO.”
You keep that bonus money.
HAS and SASC should call SecDef and CJCS for testimony on this subject. It’s disgraceful. Probably some minor civil servant running amok, but minor civil servants have supervisors who should be taken to task.
100% agree. Call your representatives and your friends on this on.
You can’t allow stuff like this and then complain if you have an image problem. Geez.
This is an insult. Sounds like a Dem somewhere in the Pentagon is trying to stir up a commotion.
Laura Ingraham was all over this last night. She had a soldier on that had it happen to him. They wanted $2400 and that had been cut down from $5000 as that “credited” him with unused leave time. The soldier said he has been told that it is a “glitch”.
Terrorists in Gitmo get treated with kid gloves, and our soldiers get treated like sh*t. This is wrong.
This is some idiot bureaucrat somewhere in the depths of the Pentagon making an absolutely idiotic decision. It’ll get corrected, just like the case of the Minnesota National Guard unit’s education benefits.
For real injuries this is very disgraceful. I just want to make sure they don’t open a door for some to pull Jahn Kerries, i.e. enlist for a $20,000 bonus and then “get hurt”, take the money and run. No mental type disabilities should be allowed, only bona-fide REAL injuries.
Ping
From http://www.military.com/benefits/military-pay/enlistment-and-reenlistment-bonuses
“Refund of Bonuses:
Be aware that if you voluntarily, or because of misconduct, don't complete the term of enlistment (or reenlistment) for which a bonus was paid, or are not technically qualified in the skill for which the bonus was paid, (other than a member who is not qualified because of injury, illness, or other impairment not the result of the member's misconduct) , you must refund a prorated portion of the bonus according to the time of service left on your contract.
Fox & Friends just announced that the defense dept changed, and they would be allowed to keep their bonus.
Or at least in the case of the injured soldier from Pennsylvania, anyway.
However, Fox is not the only military wounded who has been asked to return enlistment bonus moneys, per some reports. Other military wounded have received similar ‘requests’.
FoxNews reported this morning that one Congressman (I didn’t catch the name) plans to introduce a bill that would prohibit the military from this kind of action against military wounded — across the board — in the future.
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| Posted by navysealdad On News/Activism 11/20/2007 8:38:40 PM CST · 29 replies KDKA ^ | 11-20-07 | Marty Griffin KDKA contacted the Pentagon. Investigators there took a look. A short time ago, a military spokesman told KDKA's Marty Griffin the bill sent to Fox was a mistake. Griffin: "You are taking this case on involving Jordan and looking into it?" Major Nathan Banks, Army spokesperson: "We are. We are ... definitely working it out. We have seen where the problems have been made, the system, and we're just making - you know, give us the opportunity to make a wrong a right." Major Banks says Fox will not have to pay back his bonus. |
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Just tell them, “I spent it”.
Brig Gen Michael S. Tucker says those injured in the line of duty will not be responsible for returning any bonuses they receive.
Pentagon is investigating who sent the letter and why.
Wounded-in-Action agency is supposed to scrutinize such claims/incidents.
1-800-984-8523 is Pentagon agency number for any military wounded who are having problems (letters, etc.) with bonuses, etc.
So the Bush Administration can find $80 million for the Palestinian Terrorist Authority, but not a penny for injured troops?
I don’t believe this is a “bureaucratic snafu” but libs in DC who are behind the scenes supporting the Dims and want bad press for the President. This is what was going on with the libs in the State Dept. saying they didn’t want to go to Iraq.
I am a firm believer that the whole of the bureaucracy needs house cleaning when a Republican takes over for a Democrat. Not just at the highest levels, but at ALL levels. Career government workers should find work elsewhere as their jobs should be on the line every election cycle.
Just watched an Army BG on Fox.
He said the intent was only to retrieve the bonus money from “non line of duty” cases, which is fair.
Any company commander (including myself) who’s had a soldier who’s permanantly injured himself with alcohol or careless behavior would agree.
How dare they! I want the bureaucrat out!