Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I seriously doubt the services will let them keep bonuses, not a chance, and congress is not likely to give them that either.
I also doubt that congress will prevent them from having to repay things like officer scholarship commitments.
Scholarships and bonuses are very clear math... you get X money, you serve Y time and it might be dangerous.
I kind of doubt anyone will make them repay less-quantifiable obligations like flight school.
Well, the REAL money is in UPT. Scholarships don’t cost much. But even the scholarships and bonuses - it depends upon the original contract. The military is forcing these people out under honorable conditions. They are not voluntarily separating.
This is already a fuster cluck. Getting the JAG involved can very likely just make it worse. These were all issues that should have been considered from the get-go, not when those giving the orders were in denial about possible consequences and not at the last minute when an amendment was being tacked on to must-pass legislation. Not to mention what happens when the current congressional minority party comes back into the majority.
That being the case, I’m not at all sure the most rational rules are going to apply. They sure haven’t so far. We have had - what?- about 75 COVID active duty deaths in the military in the last two years? Everyone is clearly a tragedy for them and their family, but we lose a h€|| of a lot more to other diseases, to suicides, to accidents. We lose more than 35 a year in field exercises.
I think the original order was ill advised.