09-15-2003, 10:20 AM
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US wounded being charged for meals
From Stars & Stripes:
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ARLINGTON, Va. ? Talk about adding insult to injury, said one U.S. Congressman.
Troops wounded in combat in the nation?s war on terrorism are being handed more than just discharge papers when they leave military hospitals ? some also are getting a bill.
At a daily rate of $8.10, hospitalized troops, including those wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, are being charged for their meals.
?Some things don?t meet the common-sense test, and this is one of them,? said a soldier injured in Iraq in June, and who has received two meal bills, one for $24.30 from the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, and a second for more than $300 from the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
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