Legal fight over US National Guard pay intensifies - Yahoo! News

Legal fight over US National Guard pay intensifies - Yahoo! News: "The lawsuit, initially filed in January, names Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and appears to be the first such suit in the U.S. Army National Guard, which has faced mounting demands since the September 11 attacks, lawyers in the case said.

January's complaint says the National Guard owes the soldiers for meals, car fuel, hotel costs and daily allowances.

The amendment, filed in U.S. district court in Boston on Thursday, says Massachusetts National Guard officers deliberately refused to pay the travel expenses of on-duty soldiers, as way to cut costs."