Wow.
This. This kind of crap is why nobody wants to join the army.
That’s just evil. If they are ordered to leave their equipment behind, they shouldn’t be responsible for its costs.
Our government appears to no longer be our friend. As a vet who had a very rewarding career (back when our military leaders were patriotic, intelligent, and trustworthy), I now strongly discourage any potential recruits now. Sad, but that’s how bad things really are. I am very worried about where this is going.
He needs to start a go fund me page.
But if he had KEPT IT, it would’ve been considered stolen and he’d be in Fort Leavenworth right now!
I have a secondary MOS in Supply. Equipment IS expensive and a lot of it, ‘gets lost’ along the way, but this is ridiculous.
And this guy is going to be one among hundreds if not thousands to get a letter like that!
Let’s Go, Brandon! *SPIT*
If you lose equipment that you were issued, you are supposed to file a report. If someone steals your sleeping bag from your tent while you are on guard duty on bivouac, report the loss as soon as practical. Someone in his unit should probably have typed up the paperwork for the entire unit and just gotten it replaced, or removed from their records. It definitely is B.S.
Knew this was coming. Would expect nothing less from the Democrat party
I can’t imagine that in the.chaos of a demon that a serviceman would think to pull out his personal inventory list and ask their CO to initial off on the pieces being left.
It’s been so long ago I do not recall the specific term, but in Vietnam if something was lost or destroyed or somehow turned up missing due to the war such a loss was not charged to anyone, but somehow written off as a war loss.
With that said, those same rule should apply to that war zone.
Now the soldier of the subject story should have been backed up by his commander, or at least his Command Sgt Major. Are these leaders so gutless to stand up to the system they might fear losing some benefit themselves?
Either his leaders are total jerks for not standing up for him, or this guy was legitimately charged for losing the equipment under circumstances yet to be revealed.
Back in 1966-1969 we were required to pay for our equipment that we lost or was stolen. In this case he was told to leave it behind. Something not right.
So what should Biden's punishment be for leaving behind $80 billions of equipment?
Col. John Mosby, CSA, of Mosby’s Rangers, related in his autobiography how, after the Civil War, he was approached by a Union Officer, robbed of a payroll when Mosby’s men held up a train. The U.S. Army was trying to hold him personally responsible for the loss, and Mosby provided the Union Officer with an affidavit affirming that his men had indeed taken the payroll.
I’ve read of German Soldiers on the Russian Front in WW2, who had escaped encirclement, and made it back to German lines, being charged for the loss of their Mauser rifles. Their defense — they ran out of ammo, and abandoned the Mausers for Soviet weapons, for which they could use captured Soviet ammo — was rejected. The German Army pointed that their Mausers had been voluntarily discarded, not lost due to enemy action, and the men could have carried their empty Mausers with them, in addition to their captured Soviet weapons, as they snuck for tens of kilometers towards German lines.
NUEJTOFTU
As the Animal House saying goes, “You effed up, you trusted us”. This is the fault of leadership in the 82nd ABN to not straighten this out rather than spending their time on ensuring diversity.