These guys were induced to re-up and risk their lives by payments they received. They didn't know the payments were higher than authorized and buried in some law. They are blameless. If the payments were lower, maybe they wouldn't have been persuaded. As far as they are concerned, they were offered a deal and they honored it.
I’ll bet the government wouldn’t be so damned eager to correct the error if they had UNDERPAID them earlier.
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