Mass. National Guard: Money Owed Soldiers

[Rose Siding]

BOSTON -- The Massachusetts National Guard acknowledged Friday it failed to reimburse some soldiers for expenses they incurred on security assignments after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The audit that revealed the error is ongoing, and the number of soldiers owed money and the amount of money involved are not known, said Guard spokesman Maj. Winfield Danielson.
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One of the plaintiffs, Steven Littlefield, 24, said he paid between $15,000 and $16,000 out of his pocket for food and housing after he was assigned to protective duty at Otis Air Force Base from May 2002 to March 2004.

"Everybody's upset," Littlefield said. "The $16,000 could have gone to pay bills I'm still paying now."

The lawsuit claims the soldiers' requests for compensation were repeatedly denied, and eventually their commanding officers told the soldiers they could be taken off their missions if they didn't stop asking.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-mass-guardsmen-lawsuit,0,2911770.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[brentspeak]

1. Sorry, but Halliburton, Bechtel and all the other Bush cronies

need to get paid first.