One fifth of our wounded soldiers are coming home to no pay. Why isn't anyone addressing this?

Question

I've seen two stories on this subject. One soldier was living in
his car. The other had a wife & 4 kids was about to lose
everything, untill NightLine stepped in. This was on TV last night.

These soldiers weren't fired. They were
sent home because they were wounded.

They weren't even informed of their pay
being cut-off or decreased - when they
tried to call to find out what the problem
was, they were given the run-around.

This was on ABC's Night Line 12/28/06.

Answer 1

bush and our government dont care about them.

Answer 2

Emotions aside, military should be given the same benefits as any other employment. What is the pay given to the postman hurt in Ohio, or the electric utility tech in Arizona, or a school teacher in Texas.

None of them feel the pain any less, nor do their families suffer less. All the government employees, including military, should be given the same benefits if they are injured at work. Being a capitalist country, its OK if these benefits are tied somehow to their pay-scale or job-grade. I am not advocating communism here.

Its some how unfair to say that military is above the School Teachers, Doctors, and Farmers.

Answer 3

What you're seeing with these people is a common experience for many of us who have gone off to war. What many soldiers find is that surviving the war is the easy part.

Under Federal law, Reserve and National Guard troops are supposed to be able to return to their old jobs. Often this doesn't happen, and the soldier lacks the resources to take their employer to court over the issue. The average soldier really isn't paid much, and lacking financial resources to live normal lives, some of us end up on the street.

Many of my fellow Reservists who, like myself, literally volunteered for the Gulf War went knowing that they were leaving well established businesses that would probably go under while they were gone. Many others, came home to bankruptcy and divorce. Many of us simply found that peacetime no longer feels normal, and we never truly feel like we have come home.

Answer 4

hi! undecided in case you're talking from an American or British perspective, yet the two international locations do this. regardless of ones view on the placement, our veterans should not be dealt with like hero's whilst they are greater healthful and on lively duty and then discarded whilst they are injured or made ill with the aid of that duty. there are a number of campaigning in this subject, as I even have with the aid of fact the 1980's as quickly as I realised what share veterans have been between the homeless inhabitants. SAAFA; the Royal British Legion; Federation des Combattamnts Allies en Europe and the regimental networks are elevating this subject and the actual shown fact that ex-service workers frequently have little help during the transition to civilian existence. good question. good needs.

Answer 5

By federal law,military personnel have the right to return to the last job they had before entering service. Guard and reserve personnel employers must keep the job open to the guardsman or reservist while deployed for training or for as long as on active duty.
There have been news reports of military personnel being fired while deployed to Iraq of Afghanistan. Some found out they had been fired when they returned and went in to go back to work.
This will keep going on until the people write their congressperson and complains about it.

Answer 6

Private citizens are often willing to donate money for causes like the Katrina disaster and the 9-11 terrorist attack, we need to start a "Citizens Supporting the Troops" fund to help with this problem. I don't know anything about starting or administering a fund like this, but maybe someone out there does.

Answer 7

Write a letter to Dubya... he's on yet another vacation (takes more vacation than any four Dem Presidents in the history of the USA); let him and his super-rich and powerful cronies who are profiteering from the war know... or write to Prick Chency and Condee Rice, they're acting like nothing is wrong in this nation!

Answer 8

i really dont see how this can be.......did not see that programme but you get paid whilst STILL in the military period..............now once you leave that's a different story and there is often a length of time from leaving till all the VA money kicks in for us it was a period of about 8 months [this is the norm it appears] BUT as my husband was retiring we had got our ducks in a row and go as much money saved as poss and had bought our own house.

Not to sound rude and certainly do NOT know the two cases you refer to BUT an awful lot of the mil. live WAY above their means with no concept or thought of what and where they will live once out for any reason..............had a friend who's husband got kicked out and it took 2 weeks for them to kick his butt [and hers] out of mil. quarters and stop ANY and ALL pay to him they did and still do have more debt than we have with having a house and 2 cars now add the fact he was a lower rank than mine and got paid less it sort of shows that they had and still have NO idea about money management.

Answer 9

But OUR President and Commander in Chief thanked them for their service.Ironic, the reality iis that this administration has CUT services to veterans........

Answer 10

all they got was a thanks, i think the paidcollege thing is a scam or there are many restrictions that don't even allow much