The military will charge you for boxers as well

I understand that the following incident was avoidable with the proper paperwork. Nonetheless, the military demanded payment forcing the wounded soldier to scrape together cash from relatives and friends.

But last week, Rebrook was forced to pay $700 for that body armor, blown up by a roadside bomb more than a year ago. [...] He was told to pay nearly $700 or face not being discharged for weeks, perhaps months. [...] 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.

It’s because when you’re fighting in a war zone, you get hot. Those damn kevlar vests are like down jackets in the middle of summer. The army must have assumed Lt. Rebrook had simply forgotten to pick up his vest while he stopped for water. Wth!

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