One little nitpick, the Rep. in question is Jason Altmire, and according to the KDKA report the soldier is from the Pittsburgh South Hills. Depending exactly where in the South Hills he is from, his Congressman should be either Mike Doyle (D-PA-14) or Tim Murphy (R-PA-18). Given local naming conventions then he is 90% probable to be in Murphy's district

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I am a Guardsman; eventually, as part of an annual process, I will be asked to return a portion of my VA partial disability payment when someone calculates how many days of basic pay I served against how many days I was paid disability. No complaints here; I do 2-4 days a month: out of 30 days worth, that's a small fraction. But for active duty soldiers, it would be an either or.

There could easily be some confusion, or a blurriness in the law. Is a bonus check part of military pay? If so, I could see confusion if someone earning VA disability pay is getting or has gotten "paid" is some other way from military service.

If his congressman is onto this, he'll be made whole, and laws will be passed (I have no doubt) to end the confusion.

But this isn't what war and military critics will make it out to be, for sure.

My husband is a disabled veteran. He served in the 90's. Was discharged on a medical discharge in the mid 90's. When he was discharged he not only kept all of his enlistment bonus, he was paid the balance of his enlistment bonus at discharge (I think he re-enlisted for 12,000 dollars and got half at the front of the paper signing with the balance due once the enlistment was completed).

The one thing I wonder about though-is if this isn't a VA problem. All medical discharge bonus and reenlistment balance bonus money is lumped into "medical payments" and the service member can't collect a check from the VA until the balance is paid. I wonder if that isn't what is actually going on and the media just isn't covering it right. My husband collects checks on some VA rated disabilties, but the actual disability he was discharged for he won't collect a check for for a very long time (I think we figured it out it would take almost 20 years after discharge before he would collect a check).

Either way, this is something Congress can easily fix.

I'd bet that's it. I've seen some pretty batsh*t crazy things that would fall under that category.