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GIs Drowning in Debt on Uncle Sam's Orders

By AAN Staff
august 15, 2002  10:11 am
GIs Drowning in Debt on Uncle Sam's Orders
A simple piece of plastic, the Government Travel Card (GTC), has plunged thousands of ordinary servicemen and servicewomen into debt so deep that the Pentagon is busy garnishing the wages of its own soldiers, Geoffrey Gray reports in The Village Voice. And the lone military commander known to raise hell about the scheme—an Air Force colonel based in the Midwest—tells the Voice that blowing the whistle on the GTC ruined her career.
View full article at Village Voice