Posted on 01/25/2023 7:47:41 AM PST by Red Badger
After years of service to our country, soldiers were fired for not getting an experimental vaccine. As if that wasn’t nasty enough, the Biden administration demanded these same soldiers give back their “signing bonuses” after years of service and multiple deployments.
One soldier had to “sell” 60 of his unused vacation days to pay it back and cover the protracted amount owed.
“I’ve deployed multiple times, and I feel like the last thing I had was selling leave days that I earned and was never able to take due to me being deployed or needing that time to prepare for the training cycle. I was about to enter a new world with no income, and that extra bit would have been a nice buffer in my rainy day fund to keep me afloat until I was able to find new employment,” he said.
“The Department of Defense continues to fall short on reestablishing trust for wrongdoings, and this is yet another example of that,” another service member told Fox News Digital, who said the recoupment of signing bonuses is the “icing on the cake” of the Pentagon’s recent treatment of troops.
“The appalling treatment these individuals endured broke the trust that is owed to our citizens and our volunteers. America’s sons and daughters,” the Army member said in a statement. “Until true efforts are made to establish trust, the recruiting and retention shortfalls will only continue. The individuals who make public statements that they are unsure what has contributed to the current recruiting and retention shortfalls need to take a look in the mirror; and perhaps they should resign for the betterment of our Nation.”
With all the money we pour into people here illegally, this is how we treat our military. The Biden administration is evil.
Pissing off thousands of soldiers = probably not one of your better ideas. If you get a bunch of them with nothing left to lose, look out.
Mark Milley taking care of the troops.
All services are short of enlistment goals, yet no one seems to have any concern. And now they are punishing troops they should have retained. It’s almost as if the Biden regime doesn’t care about national defense.
Looking at what all has happened in the last two years shows that the 2020 “election” was actually a successful Commiecrat coup on our Constitutional government...
democrats hate America’s Military
The Biden regime cares about their power and what that can do for them, not much else.
Biden is a disgusting, decrepit sob.
Thank God I retired in 2013, my son just went over 15, I feel for him.
Are our Republican lawmakers sitting on their hands allowing this crap to continue?
Why the heck would anyone want to go back in to the woke military run by homos and trannies?
They need the money to pay for all the things they’re giving to the undocumented democrats.
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
As Biden pushes us into war, the brave enlisted and lower grade officers should leave. Let the LBGT... and hawkish media and politicians go fight.
Actually idiots would do some things right. This DOD is run by corrupt leftists who hate the country and are intentionally destroying our military.
I am so ashamed of the Army I served for a career. This Army leadership does not rank with even the worst banana republic army in some third world cesspool. (Retired Army Field Grade Officer)
It started under the Clintons, and snowballed under Obama, now it’s totally out of control................
The people behind all this evil insanity, MUST be punished.
It is crystal clear that the Mandate is killing people and It is TIME for those responsible to be held accountable.
YES. IT IS TIME!
“Pissing off thousands of soldiers = probably not one of your better ideas. If you get a bunch of them with nothing left to lose, look out.”
There are about 16.5 million military veterans in this country.
We out number the government (total U.S. military + fed LE) by approximately an 8 to 1 ratio, and a vast majority of us are combat veterans. (Now you see why the Dems want to restrict veteran access to firearms)
But... Biden NEEDS the money to send to Ukraine!
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