{"id":66622,"date":"2016-06-30T12:18:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66622"},"modified":"2016-06-30T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:18:46","slug":"pentagon-bomb-techs-off-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66622","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon bomb techs off the hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2016\/06\/30\/pentagon-says-bomb-squad-members-wont-have-to-pay-back-massive-debts-they-faced\/\">Washington Post<\/a> which reports that the Pentagon is forgiving the tens of thousands of dollars that each member of the Pentagon bomb tech crew supposedly owned in back pay &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66587\">the story we talked about<\/a> the other day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The waivers were completed despite some members of the bomb squad expecting that their cases would not be heard for several more weeks. Badger said the approval of hazardous duty pay \u2014 promised in offer letters to the bomb technicians \u2014 was \u201can administrative error made in good faith, but with severe financial consequences for the employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pay was incorrectly authorized through no fault of the employees involved,\u201d Badger said. \u201cThey could not have known it was paid in error, and we take this matter very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The case pitted nine members of the bomb squad \u2014 formally known as the Hazardous Devices Division of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency \u2014 against the Pentagon bureaucracy. One member of the squad, Axel Fernandez, committed suicide in April, exacerbating the frustrations of those in the unit. According to emails and memos obtained by The Washington Post, the Pentagon told him he owed back in excess of $136,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, so the decision comes a little late for Axel Fernandez and his family, but then the Pentagon shouldn&#8217;t have started this pissing contest in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link to the Washington Post which reports that the Pentagon is forgiving &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon bomb techs off the hook\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66622\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon bomb techs off the hook<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}