'The Army screwed up' — National Guardsmen went weeks without pay because of a system glitch
Haley Britzky - 1h ago
Pennsylvania National Guardsmen who have been on a training exercise since mid-June are facing various financial challenges after an apparent technical issue in the payroll system left many without a paycheck.
The 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Pennsylvania National Guard, has been on a scheduled rotation through the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California, for the last month. A non-commissioned officer in the brigade’s 1st Battalion, 111th Infantry Regiment, who spoke to Task & Purpose on condition of anonymity said that their orders for the rotation were for June 18 to July 17. Typically, the NCO said, soldiers could expect to be paid halfway through that rotation.
Almost a month since arriving at NTC, soldiers recently began realizing they hadn’t been paid at all.
“I would say the overall lesson that junior soldiers learned from NTC is that the Army doesn’t care about them,” the soldier told Task & Purpose. “And it sucks. They know their first-line leaders, they know that I care about them, that their team leaders care about them, that their platoon sergeant cares about them. But everyone higher than that clearly doesn’t care about them at all.”
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