re: Soldier gets charged $1000 for gear he was told to leave in Afghanistan

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Night vision?
ACOG sights?
Sidearms?

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Those are sensitive items and considered unit equipment and will have a Primary Hand Receipt Holder (PHRH) normally the unit commander. Sensitive items such as NVGs, CCI, and GPS will be done quarterly and firearms and explosives will be done monthly and both will have strict rules about who and how they are done. There will also be a yearly cyclic inventory of unit equipment my units did 25% of the line items each quarter but other units split it differently. The point is none of the stuff he left was considered sensitive items or there would have been a reckoning much earlier.

Even undepreciated $4k is basically all of one's TA-50. Normally theater issue would have been turned in after returning from deployment. Even in the REMFest of POG units in the 82nd you have to stay jump qualified (plus you want that pay) so you are going to jump every 6 months (if you jump two days in a row and "jump backwards"). There is just no way the guy made it two years without his TA-50.