DFAS bureaucrats are utterly incompetent.
Our government at work. And yes, I can attest to similar treatment from various government agencies too.
Oh they hear...
they just don't care!
I’m pretty sure that the standard ROTC contract states that if the student cannot/does not join the military, then all tuition moneys have to be repaid. I
Absolutely outrageous. If she’d refused to take a commission and serve after graduation or gotten a bad conduct discharge that would be one thing, but for a medical discharge?!?!
Great way to look after your people there.
Well - I’ll be the first to say she owes the Navy (we taxpayers) a refund....
She was unable to fulfill her end of the agreement..
I also suspect her “exercise induced asthma” was a precondition she couldn’t help but be aware of....
She should shut up and pay up...
We taxpayers are tapped out by being the patsy for EVERYONE....
Maybe she should have told the Navy that she wanted to go to law school and stay in the Navy. I went to high school with a guy who went all the way through college in NROTC, only to be turned down for officer’s training school because of his eye sight. He ended up a jag. I guess someone decided the glasses didn’t matter so much as a lawyer.
It looks as if the Navy did not perform their Due Diligence.
Is her asthma really that severe that she cannot serve in the military in any capacity? Does she still desire to fulfill her obligation?
“considering filing for bankruptcy.”
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I don’t think they let you do that with tuition bills anymore.
all bureaucrats are utterly incompetent.
Not one exception in the history of the world.
On the other hand, I had a friend (may he RIP) who was diagnosed with Type I diabetes on a sea trip in the Navy.
He never worked another day in his life.
Whether he was in the Navy or not, he would have the disease.
I liked the guy, but it seemed out of whack to me.
It’s not just a job, it’s your life savings and more!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I can speak from experience on this issue. I attended 3 years of colleg on an Army ROTC scholarship in the 90’s. In my last year (I would have finished in 3 1/2) I decided to leave college and the Army to pursue a another career. My ROTC contract clearly stated that if I left the program I had to pay back all the tuition and training costs. However, the semester prior to my leaving school I had suffered a lung condition that the Army was aware of. When I gave my letter of resignation to my Professor of Military Science (CO) It stated that I was resigning for personal reasons. He asked me multiple times if my lung condition was the reason I was leaving. Had that been the case I would have been eligible for a medical discharge (and no repayment.) Because of my pride and a desire to keep my military options open I said the lung thing had nothing to do with it, thus giving myself a $40,000 debt that I could have had a doctor waive for me. At that time I had to pay the debt or enlist for active duty. I chose to pay. It doesn’t have to be a lump sujm. They will give you a payment plan. Defense Financing and Accounting Service handles just like any other debt to the DOD. Unless they have changed the contract she should not have to pay if they are rejecting her and not vice versa. I know some guys who left the program and paid because the DOD was going to branch them differently than they had originally been promised. That was a DOD decision but since they were still being offered a commission they had to take it or pay.
Later, a medical condition comes up later which was diagnosed by a civilian doctor and voluntarily revealed to the Navy.
If this condition had come up on her Navy commissioning physical, she probably would have been released without having to repay anything. That used to happen when I was in ROTC, and it happens at service academies. The most common problem I recall for ROTC students when I was irregular heartbeats in males. Men do not physically mature until around 21 years old, so an irregular heartbeat might not manifest itself until after the scholarship physical and prior to the commissioning physical. These people never had to pay back their scholarships. But then again, I went to a state university, and I know high cost private universities are a different class of ROTC scholarship. But I know people this happened to at a service academy, and they did not have to pay the money back.
As for asthma, it is hard to see that as disqualifying to all duties if it is controllable. Heck, almost everyone under 30 seems to have asthma now. I don't know if it was based in fact, but in the movie "Blackhawk Down", one of the soldiers has asthma.
I was in NROTC with a guy who had passed his physical and was accepted into the program. 2 years later they found a problem with a heart valve and discharged him. Hew as never asked for money.
Part of the contract that she signed is that she would fulfill the obligations - when she was no longer able to perform should the Navy have just said well, thanks for two good years of once a month meetings for which we get no benefit of service?
I’m tired of whiners.
(DUCKING!!!)