Reply #41: SOMEBODY POST THIS !!!! [View All]

[WvSky]

Since I cant post a topic yet, someone needs to post this:

Soldier pays for armor
Army demanded $700 from city man who was wounded


The last time 1st Lt. William “Eddie” Rebrook IV saw his body armor, he was lying on a stretcher in Iraq, his arm shattered and covered in blood.

A field medic tied a tourniquet around Rebrook’s right arm to stanch the bleeding from shrapnel wounds. Soldiers yanked off his blood-soaked body armor. He never saw it again.

But last week, Rebrook was forced to pay $700 for that body armor, blown up by a roadside bomb more than a year ago.

Rebrook, who graduated with honors from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., spent more than four years on active duty. He served six months in Iraq.

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2006020623