Outrage of the day:
The Army is struggling to find about 35,000 soldiers, most of them veterans now, who are owed bonuses because they were forced to remain in the military beyond their normal enlistment.
The government authorized the "special pay" in 2009 following criticism from some troops and Congress who said the "stop loss" policy that extended enlistments amounted to a "back door draft." Most of the troops fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Veterans groups have faulted the Pentagon for not being able to locate the troops.
Aw. The Army is "struggling" to find all these veterans. But the law providing the pay makes those who are owed the pay apply for it -- you earned it, now try to get it, ha, ha, ha. It's dishonorable in general to steal people's work. When they are forced to work by the government, in missions that can get them killed, and the government doesn't move heaven and earth to find and pay them, that's nothing short of despicable.
