Insty66
Presumably the others faced disciplinary action for not doing as you did? Probably not, which begs the question: Why did you choose to pay your own way back?
I suspect, as others have suggested, that in this case, there was a choice.
One thing that really grips my sh*t is when advances of rates are not paid in full. The advice from Command Accts seems to be that advances should not be more than 90% of the anticipated rates. Given they have direct access to your pay for recovery of overissues or the whole lot if you don't fill in the paperwork on return, what is the problem? Granted most of us could find the 10% from our own pockets, but what about the troops?
STH