ARMY RESERVISTS WHO DESERTED WERE PAID
The Pentagon has done little to recover nearly $900,000 mistakenly paid to 75 Army reservists who have not reported for duty since late 2001, congressional investigators said in a report Monday.
Ref. https://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/28/gao.deserters.ap/index.html
Yeah, don't waste our take money on trying to get that money back. Completely disregarding the fact that the reservists who where deserters where pushed into active duty to go to a war that was not to defend our own country, which is supposed to be the reason they are pushed into active duty. I don't blame them for deserting, but it wasn't right that they did it at the expense of someone else having to go over seas. But recovering the money accidentally given them will be close to impossible. I would have already taken the money out of my bank and kept it in cash. I simply would say no when they asked for it back. Besides, how much have the wasted on stuff that didn't matter any way, this is a drop in the bucket.