Soldier Who's Arm Was Blown Off Forced To Pay $700 For Body Armor

[Gold9472]

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

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



By Eric Eyre
2/7/2006

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.

[beltman713]

Fucking vultures.