U.S. Army Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook of Charleston (left) and other soldiers take cover near an ancient cemetery during a gunbattle with insurgents in Najaf, Iraq, in August 2004. Rebrook, who was honorably discharged last week because of an arm injury sustained in battle, was forced to pay $700 for body armor that was destroyed when he was hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
From WVGazette.com
No he didn't. He was on his last few days of outprocessing and thought he could hand them a memo explaining the situation, unaware that there is a specific form that has to be filled out and processed. When he was told that the form would take several weeks to be processed, he told them that he would rather just pay the $700 and finish his outprocessing and be done with it (he's a Lt and can afford it). His fault for not knowing about the form, and his choice for paying the $700 rather than waiting for the form to be processed. Nobody "got screwed."