View Full Version : Army demands $700 from wounded soldier for “blood-soaked” body armor



PUGalicious
02-07-2006, 02:22 PM
(Originally posted here (http://independentchristianvoice.com/2006/02/07/army-demands-700-from-wounded-soldier-for-body-armor/))


How’s this for “supporting our troops”…





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(Charleston Gazette (http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2006020623)) — The last time 1st Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood.

A field medic tied a tourniquet around Rebrook’s right arm to stanch the bleeding from shrapnel wounds. Soldiers yanked off his blood-soaked body armor. He never saw it again.

But last week, Rebrook was forced to pay $700 for that body armor, blown up by a roadside bomb more than a year ago.

He was leaving the Army for good because of his injuries. He turned in his gear at his base in Fort Hood, Texas. He was informed there was no record that the body armor had been stripped from him in battle.

He was told to pay nearly $700 or face not being discharged for weeks, perhaps months. [more (http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2006020623)]


…with friends like these…

Faith
02-07-2006, 02:56 PM
This is outrageous. It is just hard for me to believe that the army officials declined to save his waiver. I just can't see the army making him pay for something that was damaged by enemy fire. I understand there wasn't any documentation reported, but what do they think he did with his armor? Sell it on ebay?

Faith
02-07-2006, 02:56 PM
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Curt
02-07-2006, 03:40 PM
Yet, the government does not mind giving an illegal, food stamps. What nerve they have for asking him for the money.

Intrepid
02-07-2006, 03:59 PM
Wow...body armor isn't that much more expensive than the $500 hammer the Pentagon is famous for.