Repay!!

My two cents, the DoD should be going after the CA Army National Guard leadership. A side note, Officers don't get reenlisment bonuses. Two soldiers quoted in the Yahoo articles were officers. I believed there was a program that gave bonus to former active duty officers in selected specialities that join the guard.

In the National Guard world, big states like CA, TX, and PA have huge influences. The National Guard HQ's provides guidance and funding, and states execute. This is not the first time CA Army National Guard got caught doing something wrong.
 
Or go after the recruiters who wanted to make numbers any way possible.... If that's what in fact happened.
 
And they wonder why retention rates are so low. It seems like Firsties I knew when I was a plebe are leaving the Army in droves
 
Hubby Guard Bummed/AGR for 23 years - Pay was calculated wrong almost every time we out processed. The monthly "Re-payment" payment went on for the better part of that time.
 
Let's all give the Los Angeles Times a well-deserved attaboy for publicizing this atrocious treatment of California Army National Guard veterans.

Not the 24-hour cable news TV channel, whom do no investigative reporting of their own. Too busy airing shows of talking heads yelling at one another. They couldn't find this story.

Not the world of political bloggers, who doing nothing but re-post pre-exisiting new stories & spew their partisan views. How come Breitbart or Huffington Post (supposedly "news" outlets) can't find stories like this? They couldn't find this story.

Certainly not the US Congress, which was informed about this 2 years ago. Too busy "fund raising" (i.e. soliciting bribes to finance not just their endless campaigns but also to live like multi-millionaires on a paltry $175K/year salary). Now, of course, there's no limit to their collective outrage. No, Congress couldn't find this story until it was presented to them.

It was the old-fashioned newspaper industry (which is admittedly dying, a victim of technology) which took the time to collect the information, check sources, re-check sources, etc.

In 20 years time, when there's hardly a real "news" industry left, who is going to expose these kind of stories (i.e. Watergate, Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Army bonus repayment scandal, etc.)?
 
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