Shot in Iraq, soldier gets bill for missing equipment

[Ponce]

When every penny counts......but we send FREE equipment to the state of Isreal.
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Shot in Iraq, soldier gets bill for missing equipment

By Raw Story
Saturday, May 29th, 2010 -- 10:49 pm

As Americans prepare to honor fallen soldiers this Memorial Day, one former Oregon National Guard member is wondering why he's being charged more than $3,000 for military gear that was lost after he was shot.

Gary Pfleider, a six-year veteran of the Guard, received a Purple Heart after he was shot by a sniper in Iraq. Some time later, he received a somewhat less gratifying award: A bill for $3,175 for military equipment that was lost when he was shipped out of Iraq for medical treatment.

[big country]

Is that the whole story? Link to the rest of it? Pretty concise and doesn't tell us anything really. Maybe he was selling all of his equipment to the tail-i-ban before he was shot?

No way we will ever know without the rest of the story

[I am me, I am free]

Is that the whole story? Link to the rest of it? Pretty concise and doesn't tell us anything really. Maybe he was selling all of his equipment to the tail-i-ban before he was shot?

No way we will ever know without the rest of the story


This isn't the first time I've heard of this nonsense - it's been happening for years in the sandbox. SOP for treatment toward the cannon fodder.

[Ponce]

That all that there was but for a picture of the guy.........it has happened many times before. As I see it........he was shot and didn't kow what was going on, sent to the hospital......WHAT THE HELL WOULD I CARE ABOUT MY EQUIPMENT???

It did happen to me in the Congo back in 62 when I stepped on a booby trap or land mine, I never found out wich, I was sent away and don't know what happened to my equipment.....

[Libertarian_Guard]

I similar incident happened to me.

When my first field jacket was issued, it was brand new. About four months later I got orders for Japan. So I droped by a surplus store and bought an old worn out field jacked which I turned in when I checked out. Anyhow I didn't need the Jacket on Okinawa, so I left it at my parrents house. A year or so later, when I'm checking back in at my new stateside base, during the month of January I'm wearing the jacket as I'm being issued gear. Some supply Master Sargent asks me how I got the jacket. I tell him I bought it in North Carrolina. He asks for the receipt, which I don't have, but I lied and told him I had it packed away somewhere. He calls B.S. on my story and tells me to sign for the jacket. I stand my ground and refuse to sign until my Sargent Major comes driving over and has me sign with the written provision that if I produce the receipt at check out time, I'm free to keep the jacket, and it is either that or office hours that afternoon, of which he assures me, that I will lose a stripe, and Sgt. Majors are not known for joking around about pulling stripes.

Anyhow two years later, when I'm separating from the service, the same supply Sgt is standing by while my trash is being inventoried, I passed him the phoney receipt I made up, He knew immediately that it was bogus and calls me out on it, but I lied and stood my ground and walked away with the jacket.

Uncle Sam wound up eating the loss on that. Perhaps a whole $50.

Uncle Sam loves to nickle & dime the service men. It is all just paper work that must be followed.

Funny story from boot camp .............

We're getting ready to go out in the field for a few nights and as we're packing our gear the D.I. says whatever you do, do not lose any of your 782 gear, because it will be deducted from you pay. Now comes the funny part, and D.I.'s are not known to be funny. He says just because he has 8 sleeping bags, 4 tents, 11 e-tools, etc, etc, he will not bring in anything from his house to replace our lost gear.

The story may not seem funny, but if you were there, you would have been using everything you had NOT to laugh.