DOD misses deadline for soldier reimbursement

The Defense Department was told a year ago to set up a program to reimburse soldiers who have had to buy their own protective gear, like armor and medical supplies -- but the deadline has gone by with no action.

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