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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The song is about waking up every day, and some days waking up in different places and starting all over again,\" Qardash explains. \"And coming here and not having anything you have back home. And then you have to start all over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qardash was born in Kabul, but grew up as a refugee in nearby Uzbekistan during Taliban rule. In Uzbekistan, he enrolled in high school and his new punk friends introduced him to bands like Nirvana and the Sex Pistols. He was hooked. He picked up his first guitar at 14 and never put it down. As a refugee, music gave Qardash a sense of home. After the fall of the Taliban, Qardash returned to Afghanistan in 2007 and started Kabul Dreams. Bassist Siddique Ahmed had just returned from being a refugee in Pakistan, and former drummer Mujtaba Habibi had just returned from Iran (he was replaced by Raby Adib in 2014).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qardash wrote the song, \"Sadae Man,\" or \"My Voice,\" a couple of years later as an anthem to his country’s hopes for democracy.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/i4kAvjgqh-U'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/i4kAvjgqh-U'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“I think we needed a song to really encourage youth to be united, and that is what we felt, and that is really the entire idea behind having a band,\" Qardash says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kabul Dreams never planned to leave Kabul. But Qardash’s dreams of the U.S. invasion bringing democracy to his home were shattered. He saw people killed on the streets of Kabul. Bombings were frequent. The band received countless death threats. The U.N. reports more than \u003ca href=\"https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/protection_of_civilians_in_armed_conflict_midyear_report_2016_final.pdf\"> \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/protection_of_civilians_in_armed_conflict_midyear_report_2016_final.pdf\">63,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan\u003c/a> between 2009 and 2016. Sulyman didn’t see an end. So Kabul Dreams decided to leave Afghanistan for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried to copy the democracy that the U.S. or the Western world provides,\" Qardash says. \"Especially in Afghanistan, we preach about that. But if you look at it for me, outside of Bay Area, when I travel to different states, I'm experiencing the things and thoughts that I had were slightly wrong. Because we are living in 2017, and we are in America, and people are still fighting against racism or fighting against gender equality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11353369\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11353369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Kabul Dreams lead singer Sulyman Qardash says in the wake of President Trump's second travel ban and the rise in hate crimes, he hopes to build a cultural bridge by bringing Afghan rock to the West.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Sulyman-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kabul Dreams lead singer Sulyman Qardash says in the wake of President Trump's second travel ban and the rise in hate crimes, he hopes to build a cultural bridge by bringing Afghan rock to the West. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Kabul Dreams)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Qardash says he’s grateful for the freedom he feels here in the U.S., and opportunities. In 2017, Qardash got to meet one of his childhood heroes -- Metallica -- when Kabul Dreams starred in an award-winning indie movie with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich\u003cu>,\u003c/u> called \u003ca href=\"http://butimarproductions.org/films/radiodreams/\">Radio Dreams\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qardash says that blew his mind. He says he is grateful, but now he confronts a new challenge: Islamophobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can be a Muslim, but I can play rock 'n' roll and I can be a doctor or an engineer,\" Qardash says. \"That’s something very spiritual between me and what I believe in. You don't really get to choose what I believe in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qardash calls the new travel ban aimed at Muslim-majority countries \"ridiculous.\" Even though Afghanistan is not on that list, he says his religion and ethnicity are being targeted. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 12:35 p.m.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nIt had been more than five years since Army Capt. Matthew Ball last saw the young Afghan interpreter who helped him navigate perilous territory in eastern Afghanistan \u003cdel>\u003c/del>during the 2010 surge in the U.S. war there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ball got to finally welcome his friend and former colleague, Qismat Amin, at San Francisco International Airport early Wednesday. Amin was greeted by Ball and friends who helped to advance his immigration case, and supporters who had read about the struggle to get him out of Afghanistan, where his life was in danger for working with the U.S. military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I left family in Afghanistan but actually seeing these people makes me much, much stronger,” said Amin, 25. “I feel like I have a huge family right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “It’s something I’ve been waiting for years and years. The credit goes to this guy, Capt. Matthew Ball. He’s been supporting me in every way. I don’t know how to return this favor to this guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ball pushed for Amin to get a U.S. visa, a process that took more than three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Amin shook hands with people in the small crowd at the international arrivals area, some of whom told him “Thank you for your service” and “Welcome home,” Ball stood smiling nearby, taking it all in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel incredible,” said Ball, 30. “It’s great to see him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11307379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11307379 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Qismit Amin and Matt Ball speak to supporters after Amin's arrival to San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, from Afghanistan.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24207_20170208_QismatAmin_Credit_BertJohnson-11-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qismat Amin and Matthew Ball speak to supporters at San Francisco International Airport after Amin’s arrival from Afghanistan on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017. The two men kept in touch since Ball’s Afghanistan tour. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ball said his unit depended on Amin, who began working for the U.S. at age 19, during counterinsurgency missions. He noted how Amin defused tense situations, and often helped U.S. soldiers and Afghans better understand the context of their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, the pair had called or texted each other almost daily. Ball, now a Stanford University law student, took it upon himself to get Amin to safety. The Afghan’s work for U.S. troops had made him a target for Islamic State fighters, who were threatening to kill him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ball recruited fellow Stanford students to launch a congressional inquiry into Amin’s immigration case. Ball said he feared his friend’s application had gotten stuck in a bureaucratic “black hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we owe it to him to make him safe. He’s done a lot for me. He’s done a lot for our country,” said Ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amin had planned to arrive later in the month, but Ball moved up his flight after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. for 90 days. Though Afghanistan wasn’t one of those countries, Amin feared further travel restrictions could be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was scared. I thought like ‘I don’t want to lose this opportunity,'” said Amin. His visa was approved just days before the controversial executive order, which is being challenged in federal court.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11304209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11304209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Qismat Amin worked as an interpreter for U.S. troops in his native Afghanistan. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qismat Amin worked as an interpreter for U.S. troops in his native Afghanistan. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matthew Ball)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A U.S. District Court judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the executive mandate last Friday; a higher court is reviewing the government’s appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some U.S. veterans are concerned that the Trump administration’s new travel restrictions are sending the signal that “America does not uphold its promises,” said Kelsey Campbell, 33, of Veterans for American Ideals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Afghans fear that they will have no protections when they collaborate with the U.S. government, that could endanger troops and missions, said Campbell. She has lobbied Congress to increase the number of Special Immigrant Visas, reserved for Afghans and Iraqis who worked for the U.S. Government.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for these visas is much greater than the number of available spots. While more than 13,000 Afghans were in the process of applying for Special Immigrant Visas as of January, the State Department had only 2,170 visas to issue for citizens of that country, said William Cocks, spokesman for the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FaridaJhabvala/status/829357245523652608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the next few months, \u003c/span>Ball and his wife, Giselle Rahn, are planning to host Amin at their Palo Alto apartment while the interpreter gets acclimated to life in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“He’s never seen the ocean before. He’s never been out of his time zone. I had to explain to him what jet lag is,” said Ball, adding that he’s now ready to be an interpreter for his Afghan friend in the U.S. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so excited,” Amin said. “I’m going to go outside and see America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before he left the airport, Amin told supporters: “You are doing an incredible job for coming out here and fighting for these immigrants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“America is just a place like Asia or Europe, but what makes it great is because of you great Americans,” he added. “You represent the values and the good of this country. So keep fighting!”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The two men kept in touch since Ball’s Afghanistan tour. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ball said his unit depended on Amin, who began working for the U.S. at age 19, during counterinsurgency missions. He noted how Amin defused tense situations, and often helped U.S. soldiers and Afghans better understand the context of their situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, the pair had called or texted each other almost daily. Ball, now a Stanford University law student, took it upon himself to get Amin to safety. The Afghan’s work for U.S. troops had made him a target for Islamic State fighters, who were threatening to kill him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ball recruited fellow Stanford students to launch a congressional inquiry into Amin’s immigration case. Ball said he feared his friend’s application had gotten stuck in a bureaucratic “black hole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we owe it to him to make him safe. He’s done a lot for me. He’s done a lot for our country,” said Ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amin had planned to arrive later in the month, but Ball moved up his flight after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. for 90 days. Though Afghanistan wasn’t one of those countries, Amin feared further travel restrictions could be coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was scared. I thought like ‘I don’t want to lose this opportunity,'” said Amin. His visa was approved just days before the controversial executive order, which is being challenged in federal court.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11304209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11304209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Qismat Amin worked as an interpreter for U.S. troops in his native Afghanistan. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24037_attachment-4-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qismat Amin worked as an interpreter for U.S. troops in his native Afghanistan. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matthew Ball)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A U.S. District Court judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the executive mandate last Friday; a higher court is reviewing the government’s appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some U.S. veterans are concerned that the Trump administration’s new travel restrictions are sending the signal that “America does not uphold its promises,” said Kelsey Campbell, 33, of Veterans for American Ideals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Afghans fear that they will have no protections when they collaborate with the U.S. government, that could endanger troops and missions, said Campbell. She has lobbied Congress to increase the number of Special Immigrant Visas, reserved for Afghans and Iraqis who worked for the U.S. Government.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demand for these visas is much greater than the number of available spots. While more than 13,000 Afghans were in the process of applying for Special Immigrant Visas as of January, the State Department had only 2,170 visas to issue for citizens of that country, said William Cocks, spokesman for the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In most cases, when an employer pays a signing bonus to attract new workers, that payment is understood to be essentially unrecoverable. But the Pentagon has a different understanding — and it's ordering the California National Guard to claw back thousands of dollars paid to soldiers who re-enlisted to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in many cases, an employer would also have a tough time arguing that decade-old lapses in its own oversight should trigger wage garnishments and tax liens against its workers. But again, this is the U.S. military, and its officials say the law requires them to reclaim the overpayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the gist of a report by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-national-guard-bonus-20161020-snap-story.html\">the Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>, which says nearly 10,000 soldiers are now scrambling to pay back signing bonuses that helped the Pentagon cope with the task of using an all-volunteer service to fight two prolonged international conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to doling out cash for re-enlistment, the Pentagon offered student loan repayments. The incentives were seen as crucial to the military's effort to keep its ranks flush, but auditors say the rules should have limited the largest payments to certain skill areas — and that in the rush to staff the war effort, the bonuses were given out too liberally, the L.A. Times reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have to change the law to make this right.'\u003ccite>Congressman John Garamendi\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Responding to the newspaper's story Sunday, the California National Guard points out that the repayments are part of a federal program run by the National Guard Bureau and the Department of the Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAGUARD/posts/10154523711193796\">The state military service says\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The California National Guard does not have the authority to unilaterally waive these debts. However, the California National Guard welcomes any law passed by Congress to waive these debts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until that time, our priority is to advocate for our Soldiers through this difficult process.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In its statement, the service adds that its adjutant general, Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin, created an assistance center that has helped some of its soldiers retain $37 million \"of original bonus payments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem of improper use of military troop-level incentives isn't limited to California — but the state has emerged as a focal point because of two factors: the large size of its guard force, and a history of overpayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento Valley Congressman John Garamendi, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, says he's proposing legislation to change a federal law that would require the soldiers to return the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is disgusting. These men and women answered the country’s call. They went off to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan and many were wounded in many different ways, their lives were disrupted. The signing bonuses were appropriate at the time. And then to go back years later and to say 'well there were some mistakes made by the recruiting officers and therefore we want all the money back' is absolutely unacceptable. And we have to change the law to make this right,\" Garamendi says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Garamendi's legislative fix is approved, any service member who accepted a recruiting bonus between 2005 and 2009 would not be required to return any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A scandal over the California National Guard's use of bonus money was first unearthed in 2010, when \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article2573111.html\">the Sacramento Bee reported\u003c/a> that its incentive program had misspent as much as $100 million. The program's onetime leader, former Master Sgt. Toni Jaffe, was later \u003ca href=\"https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/losangeles/press-releases/2012/former-california-national-guard-master-sergeant-sentenced-to-30-months-in-federal-prison-in-15-million-false-claims-case\">sentenced to 30 months in prison\u003c/a>, after pleading guilty to making $15 million in false claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it was first discovered, that scandal was deemed \"war profiteering\" and was said to have benefited guard members who hadn't logged any combat duty; high-ranking officers were mentioned. But in the years since, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article2580422.html\">lower-ranking service members have complained\u003c/a> about garnished checks and a prolonged review process, saying they've done nothing wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the work of 42 auditors who reviewed the California cases now complete, the repayments are back in the spotlight — and service members and veterans, as well as members of the public, have been venting their anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CAGUARD/?hc_ref=SEARCH\">California guard's Facebook page\u003c/a>, several people hijacked a post about training to comment on the bonus repayments, with one man writing, \"The officials who screwed over our service members need to do the right thing and pay back the money. DISGUSTING.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after the guard responded to the Times story Monday, a commenter criticized its stance, writing, \"Meanwhile vets are suffering while one bureaucracy waits to 'welcome' another bureaucracy to take responsibility and force it to do the right thing. Pathetic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revelations about fraud and mismanagement in the Pentagon's retention program emerged after the program's budget swelled between 2000 and 2008 — when the Defense Department went from spending $891 million for selective re-enlistment bonuses to spending $1.4 billion on them, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2010/RAND_MG950.pdf\">a 2010 research paper by the RAND defense institute\u003c/a>. By the end of that period, the military was also spending $625 million yearly to pay enlistment bonuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not unusual for signing bonuses to have strings attached. But in the civilian world, conditions for repayment are often limited to cases where an employee spends less than a year in their new job. In the case of the California National Guard, soldiers who say they held up their end of the contract — serving the required three- or six-year re-enlistment period — are being told to repay a key incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Robert Richmond, who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/supreme-court-stop-army-from-taking-back-signing-bonuses-10-years-later-after-vets-completed-contracts\">begun an online petition\u003c/a> that calls for the Army to \"stop stealing back signing bonuses 10 years later.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond says he signed the contract in good faith, and in his petition, he describes a scenario that's reminiscent of the recent Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal, saying that a lower-ranking figure has been punished for committing fraud that was motivated at least in part by a need to meet targets set by her superiors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond also appears in the L.A. Times story; here's a sample from his petition:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Like many other soldiers, I honorably completed my contract in 2012 and two years later they sent me a letter stating I had to pay the money back. Each contract has a different excuse. They stated the reason I was not eligible for the contract was because I had over 20 years of service at the time. I had originally signed up more than 20 years prior, but had breaks in service and only had 15 credible years of service, not 20. Although at the time, they informed me I was eligible for a bonus, now they are saying I was not.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Like other veterans who are refusing to pay up, Richmond is now incurring interest on the repayment amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its General Rules about the recovery of pay and bonuses, \u003ca href=\"http://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Recoupment/Rules.aspx\">the Department of Defense states\u003c/a>, \"As a general rule, repayment will not be sought if the member's inability to fulfill the eligibility requirements is due to circumstances determined reasonably beyond the member's control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after dozens of auditors reviewed its system that had paid soldiers bonuses without determining their eligibility, the California National Guard's veterans started getting repayment notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People like me just got screwed,\" a 42-year-old veteran tells the Times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That veteran, former Army Capt. Christopher Van Meter, fought in Iraq. He tells the newspaper he refinanced his mortgage to repay $25,000 in re-enlistment bonuses and $21,000 in student loan repayments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another veteran — former Army Master Sgt. 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Although Department of Defense policy permits SRB payments of up to $45,000.00, soldiers may be paid bonuses up to six times their monthly basic pay at discharge, times the number of years of additional obligated service, or $20,000.00, whichever is less.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While some veterans are working to repay the money, others are filing appeals, engaging in what's likely to be a prolonged fight against the service to which they once belonged. California National Guard officials tell the Times that they've been helping veterans through the appeals process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'd be more than happy to absolve these people of their debts,\" Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, deputy commander of the California National Guard, tells the Times. \"We just can't do it. 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But in the civilian world, conditions for repayment are often limited to cases where an employee spends less than a year in their new job. 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