Maybe it’s meant to be a Thanksgiving gesture instead.

The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments.

To get people to sign up, the military gives enlistment bonuses up to $30,000 in some cases. Now men and women who have lost arms, legs, eyesight, hearing and can no longer serve are being ordered to pay some of that money back.

One of them is Jordan Fox, a young soldier from the South Hills.  [...] Fox was seriously injured when a roadside bomb blew up his vehicle. He was knocked unconscious. His back was injured and lost all vision in his right eye.

A few months later Fox was sent home. His injuries prohibited him from fulfilling three months of his commitment. A few days ago, he received a letter from the military demanding nearly $3,000 of his signing bonus back.

Because, of course, those sneaky wounded vets may have intentionally gotten themselves crippled in order to screw the military out of some of their fraudulently acquired signing bonuses

Remember:  We Support Our Troops!  Unless, you know, they can’t fight any more.

(via Les)