Are military personnel being charged for ammo when they are on tour?

[diabeticman]

My wife said the place she work she overheard one of the workers telling another worker that when he was overseas doing his tour that he was charged $7.50 per day for his ammo even if it wasn't fired.

Does anyone else know of that practice?

[giftedgirl77]

1. Not when I deployed...

My last tour was 2 yrs ago & my soon to be ex is deployed now & he's not being charged for his. We aren't charged for food either. I don't know who comes up with this silly ass shit. But it's generally nonsense.

[Roselma]

2. No, at least

when my son (USMC) was deployed twice to the Middle East and when he was on a MEU, he never paid for ammo. When he was home and went to shoot his private weapon at a range, he had to provide his own ammo, but that wasn't a daily charge. He would choose as recreation to go to the range, and he would choose to stop and buy some ammo.

[hack89]

3. It does not happen. It has never happened. Nt

[diabeticman]

4. My wife didn't think so but she asked me to ask.

[benEzra]

5. Were they private security contractors, or something?

The military doesn't do this, and I'm not aware of private contractors doing so, but if it has ever happened at all it would have been on the private side. The worker may have just been BS'ing, though.

[diabeticman]

6. No, he claimed to be army.

[pinboy3niner]

7. "Claimed" being the operative word

This may be the war stories of a wannabe. Either that, or he means...

[Brickbat]

8. ROFLMAO.

[Posteritatis]

9. Ugh, pretend soldiers suck. (nt)