Reported by the Charleston (WV) Gazette:
Soldier pays for armor
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.
“I last saw the [body armor] when it was pulled off my bleeding body while I was being evacuated in a helicopter,” Rebrook said. “They took it off me and burned it.”But no one documented that he lost his Kevlar body armor during battle, he said. No one wrote down that armor had apparently been incinerated as a biohazard.
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Can't this be simply fixed by a battalion commander signing off on the statement of charges? I was under the impression that during wartime, unless you did something amazingly stupid, commanders would sign off on almost any statement of charges as war related and thus not liable.
I'm suspicious we aren't getting the whole story here - unless the command is out to get this 1LT.
So where do we send money to get 1LT Rebrook his $700.00 back?
Robert, if you read the original story you'll see 1LT Rebrook asked his Bn CO to sign off on the LOD Statement of Charges and the CO declined.
FBG, according to a commenter at Steve Gilliard's News Blog ( http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2006/02/supporting-our-troops-pt-v.html )
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