Army Duns Maimed GI. The LA Times reports, "Spc. Robert Loria of Middletown, N.Y., lost his arm in Iraq, but instead of a farewell paycheck from the Army he got a bill for nearly $1,800." There have been enough reports of such incidents that they can't be mere oversights.

Loria was wounded in February. But as he was about to leave the Army this month, officials told him he had been overpaid for his time as a patient at a military hospital in the Washington area. They said he still owed money for travel between the hospital and Ft. Hood, as well as $310 for items not found in his returned equipment.

Instead of receiving a check for nearly $4,500, Loria was told he had to pay nearly $1,800.

The story has a happy ending, only because Sens. Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, and Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey stepped in and helped. According to Sen. Clinton's office there are at least nineteen, that's right nineteen, other soliders facing similar problems. Funny how the Radical Republicans aren't holding hearings on such "oversights." Well, remember to put that "Suppport" Our Troops sticker on the back of your SUV.
posted by Idle Crank at 12/12/2004 04:26:00 PM