US Army Charges wounded soldier $700 for bloody body armor...

[DeltAlum]

"I last saw the (body armor) when it was pulled off my bleeding body while I was being evacuated in a helicopter," Rebrook told his hometown newspaper, The Charleston Gazette. "They took it off me and burned it."


A wounded US Army officer says that before he could be discharged, he had to pay the government $700 for body armor which was cut off of him.

He says that someone in the supply section failed to make a note that the armor was burned as a biohazard.

Here's a link:

http://www.wvgazette.com/static/stories/2006020719.html

The officer is a West Point graduate says he is not angry with the Army.

[Coramoor]

As long as the army fixes the mistake, who cares?

One semester I recieved an additional few hundred dollars from them, and now a year later they send me a bill + interest that I have to pay back to them. Even though it was their mistake.