{"id":37750,"date":"2013-09-27T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37750"},"modified":"2013-09-27T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T17:28:43","slug":"army-pays-criminals-16m-in-2010-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37750","title":{"rendered":"Army pays criminals $16m in 2010-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link from the Associated Press<\/a> which reports that the Army paid $16 million to deserters and folks who were AWOL during the 2010 – 2012 period.<\/p>\n

Auditors found that commanders weren’t filling out paperwork on absent soldiers in a timely manner, so the orders to stop pay weren’t being processed and absent soldiers were still being paid. The latest audit comes as the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are projected to slash $52 billion from the defense budget for the 2014 fiscal year under automatic spending cuts that kicked in March 1.<\/p>\n

The Army classifies a deserter as someone who drops from the rolls of a unit after being absent without authority for 30 or more consecutive days. Soldiers who join the military of another country, seek political asylum or live in a foreign country are also considered deserters.<\/p>\n

Kutz included in the audit recommendations that the Army develop a strategy for tracking possible desertion cases and possibly initiating criminal actions against deserters who took unearned pay. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think if I was a commander, I’d be slow to re-start a criminal’s pay, but johnny-on-the-spot to stop his pay. <\/p>\n

$14 million for a rifle the Army doesn’t need, $16 million for people who don’t show up for work. This is starting to look like places that the Army can look to cut expenses rather than threatening to cut training and reducing cost of living increases. Not to mention raising healthcare costs to retirees and raiding their surplus. I guess it’s too hard to cut real waste and easier to just make personnel cost cuts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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