{"id":39900,"date":"2014-02-19T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39900"},"modified":"2014-02-19T09:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T14:15:04","slug":"soldier-charged-for-field-loss-a-decade-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39900","title":{"rendered":"Soldier charged for “field loss” a decade later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defend USA sends us a link to The Blaze<\/a> about Gerrod Branum of Fairmont, WV, who served in Iraq. Some of his kit was lost when he returned and his commander determined that it was a “field loss”, meaning that it was an unavoidable loss as a result of war and not the soldier’s fault. Well, it seems that the IRS has decided that he still owes them the money and took it out of his refund a decade later;<\/p>\n

Fast-forward to 2014, nearly a decade after the incident: Barnum was sent a letter from the IRS notifying him that approximately $1,600 was being withheld from his tax return on account of the missing equipment.<\/p>\n

He tried contacting the IRS, but his inquiries have been met with silence so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a government, you took my money in all aspects for a field loss for my service to my country,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not right. It is wrong and it is immoral.\u201d<\/p>\n

Official U.S. Army regulations state Barnum should have been charged within three months of the loss of the equipment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, that’s why you keep every single bit of paper that the military gives you. If you don’t, it will come back and bite your ass. I extended my enlistment out of AIT for a year for a whopping $2500 bonus. After I served out the year to which I had agreed, some civilian finance wienie at Fort Bragg couldn’t find where I was authorized the bonus and I got a bill for the bonus. I still have every piece of paper since my initial issue inventory because my ass is tooth-mark free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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