Anti-social personality disorder and PTSD don't mix.

The Army does do background checks. In fact, for every place the applicant lived, worked and went to school the recruiter must pull, scan and upload background checks from the local police, county sheriff, county court, and look up the applicant for a hit in the (Megan's law) national registry for sex offenders. Civil lawsuits and judgments don't appear in any of those places.

The "Army" does not provide incentives for crooks. The Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief act of 1950 (which has gone through revisions since) provides a plethora of financial protections for people, such as capping existing interest rates on debt to 6%. The lawsuit could have been pursued, but certainly the SSRA *may* have played a factor if his income was reduced by the US military. That's an open question, because a Staff Sergeant actually gets paid pretty well. But more to the point, this has absolutely nothing to do with the US Army.

This is why Google epiphanies need to be taken with a grain of salt. Time and time again DU members read something on the internet and draw conclusions that are far from reality. You don't know what you don't know.

having done my second enlistment at a district recruiting hq in various recruiter support functions, what you say is true. my point, what you said is true. lets say my prospect had a record in a neighboring state, and that i did not hear him tell me that, and knowing backgrounds are run in places the prospect has lived, worked or attended school for the last 5 years, and places where ticketed, arrested, etc, oops, lets just forget about that little incident in the 'other' county or state. chief recruiter doesn't have time for all of that, does he?

Likely his creditors are in the process of trying to force a sale of his property to collect something.