Beg pardon,,,i forgot, imho,,,after all,,,we always get
best deal possible,,,imho,,,thanks !
The alternative was to forego keeping their police benefits while they were deployed. Their choice. It still seems like a good deal to me. Keep your benefits and whichever salary was higher. You can even stick it into a six-month CD and get interest off of it before paying the excess back.
But to claim, "hey, sorry, I spent it all already, you can't have back what we agreed to as I want to keep both salaries" seems not right.