Not only do they take credit cards they have ATM's everywhere on post. Something is wrong with the story, it is bogus!! On the last day when you clear post you receive your last months pay and separation pay. 4 to $5,000 for a 1st Lt. and he didn't have $700. On another post the Army has already said they are refunding his money. Even the lowest private knows how to clear post and he was there for 8 months and had instructions how to clear post. If he wasn't competent enough to clear post I sure wouldn't want to follow him in battle. It might be that he just got upset because he was wounded and didn't feel like doing what is required but that excuse doesn't fly in the Army. I was in a full body cast in a Army hospital but as soon as I could move I had to make my bunk, clean my area, empty my waste basket, sweep, and mop the floor even thought I only had the use of one arm. He is not the only case, just the one bitching. My son's a officer. I'll try to find someone who knows him. Below is the best explanation I have seen on procedure for clearing post. I copied it from someone on another post.
Clearing Post is Clearing Post.
You are handed your clearing papers and you go from station to station. The hardest ones to clear are S-4 and CIF. Either you have the stuff you signed for, clean and ready to be reissued, or you have the proper paperwork stating it's disposition and how it was damaged/lost/destroyed or you pay for it. He didn't have it and didn't have the paperwork. His choices were get the paperwork or pay for it. He didn't want to hang around (he would still be on the payroll and getting paid) and wait for the paperwork. He paid and walked. Now he's a lib poster child. He was a LT in the US Army for goodness sakes. I do not feel sorry for him.
Thank you for your service - and for giving me and my daughter a free country to grow up in.
Knowing you'd served in Iraq and not Alaska, and your taxi is waiting right outside to whisk you away to your new civilian life, would you "pay", or start writing letters?