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**sleelverrex** · 06-07-2010, 02:10 AM

It happened on GW Bush's watch - what do you expect? Ya gots to be tough on those wounded vets or they will just take advantage. That good ole GW is watchin' out fer us Amerikins and our tax dollars, you betcha.

Sorry, but the administration in charge has absolutely nothing to do with this kind of thing.

I have served under 5 different presidents now, both Democrat and Republican. And at this level, the president has absolutely nothing to do with this at all. Odds are, it is just paperwork finally catching up.

When you deploy, you get extra equipment. And either you personally or your unit signs for it, and you then sign it from your unit. And it has to ba accounted for somehow.

As has been stated before, a "Statement Of Charges" is par for the course if you loose equipment, no matter how it was lost. You may have dropped it, sold it, thrown it away, had it stollen, or even had it destroyed (a friend of mine had his ESAPI plates destroyed when a 5-ton truck ran over them).

And in the same way, individuals and commanders can simply fill out the paperwork declairing them to be a "Field Loss". The Commander simply fills out a memo describing what was lost, and how it was lost. This may be for rifle magazines dropped during a firefight, body armou cut off when an individual is wounded, or a truck that is hit by an IED.

All the individual should need to do is call or write his unit and have the appropriate memo filled out. It is a routine matter. The reason these individuals get the charges is simply because it has taken time for the civilian bean-counters to catch up on their work, and it pleases them to "stick it to the military".

06-07-2010, 02:10 AM	#11
sleelverrex Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 460 Senior Member	It happened on GW Bush's watch - what do you expect? Ya gots to be tough on those wounded vets or they will just take advantage. That good ole GW is watchin' out fer us Amerikins and our tax dollars, you betcha. Sorry, but the administration in charge has absolutely nothing to do with this kind of thing. I have served under 5 different presidents now, both Democrat and Republican. And at this level, the president has absolutely nothing to do with this at all. Odds are, it is just paperwork finally catching up. When you deploy, you get extra equipment. And either you personally or your unit signs for it, and you then sign it from your unit. And it has to ba accounted for somehow. As has been stated before, a "Statement Of Charges" is par for the course if you loose equipment, no matter how it was lost. You may have dropped it, sold it, thrown it away, had it stollen, or even had it destroyed (a friend of mine had his ESAPI plates destroyed when a 5-ton truck ran over them). And in the same way, individuals and commanders can simply fill out the paperwork declairing them to be a "Field Loss". The Commander simply fills out a memo describing what was lost, and how it was lost. This may be for rifle magazines dropped during a firefight, body armou cut off when an individual is wounded, or a truck that is hit by an IED. All the individual should need to do is call or write his unit and have the appropriate memo filled out. It is a routine matter. The reason these individuals get the charges is simply because it has taken time for the civilian bean-counters to catch up on their work, and it pleases them to "stick it to the military".
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