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Fired Soldiers Forced to Give Back Signing Bonuses After Years of Service
Independent Sentinel ^ | By M Dowling -January 24, 20232

Posted on 01/25/2023 7:47:41 AM PST by Red Badger

After years of service to our country, soldiers were fired for not getting an experimental vaccine. As if that wasn’t nasty enough, the Biden administration demanded these same soldiers give back their “signing bonuses” after years of service and multiple deployments.

One soldier had to “sell” 60 of his unused vacation days to pay it back and cover the protracted amount owed.

“I’ve deployed multiple times, and I feel like the last thing I had was selling leave days that I earned and was never able to take due to me being deployed or needing that time to prepare for the training cycle. I was about to enter a new world with no income, and that extra bit would have been a nice buffer in my rainy day fund to keep me afloat until I was able to find new employment,” he said.

“The Department of Defense continues to fall short on reestablishing trust for wrongdoings, and this is yet another example of that,” another service member told Fox News Digital, who said the recoupment of signing bonuses is the “icing on the cake” of the Pentagon’s recent treatment of troops.

“The appalling treatment these individuals endured broke the trust that is owed to our citizens and our volunteers. America’s sons and daughters,” the Army member said in a statement. “Until true efforts are made to establish trust, the recruiting and retention shortfalls will only continue. The individuals who make public statements that they are unsure what has contributed to the current recruiting and retention shortfalls need to take a look in the mirror; and perhaps they should resign for the betterment of our Nation.”

With all the money we pour into people here illegally, this is how we treat our military. The Biden administration is evil.


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1 posted on 01/25/2023 7:47:41 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Still, its better than dying in Eastern Europe for Hunter Biden - which is coming.....


2 posted on 01/25/2023 7:50:16 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

DISGUSTING!


3 posted on 01/25/2023 7:50:46 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Red Badger

“Until true efforts are made to establish trust, the recruiting and retention shortfalls will only continue.”

They’re just going to offer citizenship to illegals if they enlist to make up the shortfall. Watch.


4 posted on 01/25/2023 7:50:57 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

Making America strong! The hypocrisy of the woke is on full display. The push vaccines on soldiers because they care so much for soldiers lives. That’s bull 💩.


5 posted on 01/25/2023 7:52:32 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: Red Badger

They are taking his money and giving it to Zelensky. This regime and those scum in Congress are total traitors.


6 posted on 01/25/2023 7:52:47 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: Red Badger

Vindictive jerks. Contrary to the honed public persona of the amicable Uncle Joe, Brandon is a nasty piece of work.


7 posted on 01/25/2023 7:53:05 AM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: Boogieman

I can’t imagine an English-optional workplace in the military.


8 posted on 01/25/2023 7:53:37 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Red Badger

The Department of Defense is run by Idiots


9 posted on 01/25/2023 7:55:52 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: gundog

Ah, we’ve got google translate now.


10 posted on 01/25/2023 7:57:45 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
Kommiefornia is already going to recruit wetbacks/crimigrants/illegals to serve in law enforcement. Yeah, that'll work out real well.

It's as if the messycan cartels own Newsome. /s

11 posted on 01/25/2023 8:00:10 AM PST by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: CommerceComet

“..Vindictive jerks. Contrary to the honed public persona of the amicable Uncle Joe, Brandon is a nasty piece of work....”

We don’t call it the “pedoPIG” around these parts for nothin’.
We know EXACTLY what Uncle Joe really is...and a “nasty piece of work” is waaayyyy too kind for the diaper-wrapped demented bassturd.


12 posted on 01/25/2023 8:01:00 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Red Badger; bitt; Jet Jaguar; Tilted Irish Kilt; fieldmarshaldj; Jane Long; Kathy in Alaska; ...

Call your elected (or are they there via voter fraud) Elitist politician at 202-224-3121 (DC switchboard) and share your comments about this BS. Meanwhile, the Congress is busy trying to find new ways to pad their own pockets via the taxpayers.


13 posted on 01/25/2023 8:01:48 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ConservativeInPA

They push the Covax on soldiers for the same reason they push the Covax on everyone else: to assert their dominance.


14 posted on 01/25/2023 8:04:10 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Boogieman
Or just hire mercenaries.

And certain people on FR will cheer.

Because they really have not thought their cunning plan through.

15 posted on 01/25/2023 8:09:32 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Red Badger

I’m a veteran. No way would I join the military as it exists today.


16 posted on 01/25/2023 8:09:52 AM PST by Signalman
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To: Signalman

Me too. Me either.................


17 posted on 01/25/2023 8:10:38 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Signing bonuses are inducements to enlistments, but now not so much when we see how they can be taken away. This is especially stupid when the services are have difficulty recruiting.


18 posted on 01/25/2023 8:11:08 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Red Badger

Shame of the government! Those bonuses were an enticement to enlist, which they did.


19 posted on 01/25/2023 8:11:17 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Red Badger

I’m sure the “big guy” is getting his 10% of the “recovered” bonuses from our soldiers. So why should he be bothered by it?


20 posted on 01/25/2023 8:13:33 AM PST by Ratman0823 ("I reject your reality and substitute my own" - Adam Savage, Mythbusters)
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