For what it's worth, I spent many years in the Navy and I've seen dozens or hundreds of issues with pay and benefits, but the vast majority of cases (almost 100

For what it's worth, I spent many years in the Navy and I've seen dozens or hundreds of issues with pay and benefits, but the vast majority of cases (almost 100% of the time) where servicemembers have money "clawed back" from their paychecks is because of pay and benefits that were improperly given. And that's what happened in both of the major examples cited in the article. One soldier doesn't notice that he's still getting benefits for his wife after getting divorced. The other soldier continues to get paid at his prior paygrade after being demoted for using illegal drugs. None of this excuses any of the other points of the article (although I do have strong opinions of everything else in it, too) but everybody with more than a few years in the service definitely comes at this article in a different way. Two sides to every story, is what I'm saying.