[Paige]

Then why did Paul Harvey have to take the story to get something done? No one was paying attention until Paul took the story and the bloggers went with the story.

[xzins]

Everything in military regs has an exception. Everything.

There was something similar to this about 2 years ago in terms of some other kind of pay...combat pay, jump pay, etc.

Congress applied the fix, but even then, it was a matter of a local commander being able to grant an exception to policy.

You don’t write exceptions into a reg, because you don’t have any idea what they’ll be until they show up. And you certainly don’t let them get decided by a computer program. You tell the computer to recoup money from those who had bonuses but who have less than 2 years of service.

That’s the computer input, and there’s the output. EVERYONE who has a bonus who doesn’t complete at least 2 years (?) service has to pay back a portion of that bonus.

[xzins]

Here’s a link to a 2005 story that is the same type of issue.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/13/AR2005101302166.html