Soldier pays for armor
Army demanded $700 from city man who was wounded
By Eric Eyre
Staff writer
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..........
You can read the rest of the article here if you wish.....
http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2006020623
I heard about this today on the radio It is so wrong on so many levels....What do you guys think?
Army demanded $700 from city man who was wounded
By Eric Eyre
Staff writer
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..........
You can read the rest of the article here if you wish.....
http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2006020623
I heard about this today on the radio It is so wrong on so many levels....What do you guys think?
