[MineralMan]

"What CO in his right mind would charge one of his wounded under these circumstances?"

None. This was some puke clerk who did this, not a CO. COs don't read every piece of paper and every discharge survey, for pete's sake.

This is a REMF SNAFU. Anyone who has been in the military knows what that is. I didn't get paid for 3 months after my transfer to a base in Turkey. Seems my paperwork was sent to Shemya in the Aleutians. I went in a different direction. The answer from the REMFs in the COs office in Turkey? "Nothing we can do, sergeant."

[ansel12]

"I didn't get paid for 3 months after my transfer to a base in Turkey. Seems my paperwork was sent to Shemya in the Aleutians'


After being transferred to a leg unit I continued collecting jump pay, I went to my CO and Finance, everybody said it was correct. One pay day I received no check (zero), I was told, that is how mistakes are corrected, and I would receive no pay until my debt was paid. At the time I lived off base and had separate rations, it proved to be a hardship.

[Little Bill]

I didn't get paid for the last five months in the Army, I got evaced out and my paper work was lost for seven years, got discharged on my ID card and temporary records.

Tried to pursue it but it was such a pain in the ass that I said the hell with it.

[armydoc]

A sure-fire way to get pay screw-ups fixed is to request an emergency loan from Army Emergency Relief. This triggers AER to contact the soldier's command, command contacts DFAS, etc. It gets the problem "on the radar" quickly.

[af_vet_rr]

None. This was some puke clerk who did this, not a CO. COs don't read every piece of paper and every discharge survey, for pete's sake.

This is a REMF SNAFU. Anyone who has been in the military knows what that is. I didn't get paid for 3 months after my transfer to a base in Turkey. Seems my paperwork was sent to Shemya in the Aleutians. I went in a different direction. The answer from the REMFs in the COs office in Turkey? "Nothing we can do, sergeant."

That's exactly what it comes down to - those in this thread saying "that's the way things are, soldiers are responsible, the COs will take care of it, this would have been cleared up, etc. etc. etc." don't seem to realize that you are number to the paper pushers, and they don't really care about the circumstances surrounding an event, they just want their paperwork finished, because that's what their job is - paperwork. If their job is inventory/supplies, they want their columns to add up, one way or another, and if that means screwing somebody over or not taking into account certain circumstances, they don't care - they aren't there to be nice, they are there to count beans.

It's entirely possible that somebody up the chain could have cleared this up, but it probably wouldn't go up the chain, and if it did, it would move very slowly, and it would be the responsibility of the soldier to move it up the chain - the bean counters don't care and they have quite a bit of power (i.e. delaying somebody's discharge for weeks or months).

The ironic thing is, I've heard worse stories from friends and family members either headed to the region or coming back. Much worse.