Comments on: Howlingly stupid

By: Byron Audler

Byron Audler — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:29:54 +0000

Cool…nothing brings me to a strong boil than hearing about our service members getting screwed into the wall by plain old fashioned stupidity and avarice. Glad to hear things are being made right.

By: redc1c4

redc1c4 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:27:16 +0000

according to a good friend that i *know* works at a DFAS (because he helped me with an issue)had this to say:
“Not true by any means. This young soldier obviously fell thru the cracks
somehow. There is a special program run by DFAS called the Wounded Warrior
Pay Management Program that is supposed to prevent this from happening. Any
debts for soldiers who are wounded in SWA are to be automatically submitted
to HRC for remission. Someone on a local installation that works the WWPMP
at the local DMPO (finance office) is probably out of a job by now.”

never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:54:41 +0000

ARMY WRONG

By: PeterGunn

PeterGunn — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:49:00 +0000

Cap’n, we just need someone, someone like you, to be an “Ombudsman for Common Sense”.

When will the nonsense stop without someone to say, “NO, this just won’t pass the test!”

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:13:40 +0000

I surfed around some of the “usual suspect” blogs yesterday for commentary and links on this story (memeorandum was STUFFED with ‘em) and found the real reason for this bureaucratic frick-up: Bushitler and the Eeeevil Rethuglicans. You’d think Dubya signed the restitution order hisownself based on comments in the fever swamp.

It took all the restraint I had to not drop a comment. Until I remembered the ol’ saw about “annoying the pig.”

By: Libby Spencer

Libby Spencer — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:08:39 +0000

This is a good outcome for Fox but from what I’ve been reading around the blogs and comment sections is that thousands of other vets are in the same boat and it’s been going on since possibly 2004. Certainly for the last year. I’ve seen links to other stories that didn’t get the same attention. I’ve also heard the policy is actually written into the contract for the bonus. I hope everyone on both sides of the aisle keeps an eye on this and not let up until ALL our soldiers are protected from such an inhumane policy.