Defense Department not Reimbursing Soldiers as Dictated in a Law Passed Last Year

The Defense Department seems to be dragging its feet in complying with a law passed last year that seeks to reimburse those that buy safety or health equipment for soldiers. Soldiers and their loved ones have been buying everything from armor plating to GPS devices for use in the field and are entitled to reimbursement under the law. I really hope there's no truth to Senator Dodd's (D-Conn.) conjecture that the hold up is just the passive-aggressive way the Defense Department is reacting to a law they don't like:

"Very simply, this is either negligence on their part, because they were not happy with this when it passed, or it's incompetence," Dodd said. "It's pretty outrageous when you have all their rhetoric about how much we care about our people in uniform."

And they wonder why the recruitment for the Army and Marines are down?

Update: this NY Times article has a little more detail.