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

West Virginia Gazette

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.

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He was told to pay nearly $700 or face not being discharged for weeks, perhaps months.

Holy crap! Soldiers blown up in the line of duty are financially responsible for their equipment? That's just wrong.