This is SUCH BS! And it's NOT fair to those troops - regardless of how/why it happened - to come back 10 years later. When I managed congressional inquiries at DFAS, we used to see complaints of these types of incidents quite frequently; it pissed me off then, and it still pisses me off. If a mistake/error is caught in a reasonable time (e.g., within one year), then that is one thing. But if the IRS can only go back a couple years for audit (what is it, 3 or 5 years?), then this should be a situation where the gov eats the mistake, or makes CA pay for it vs the troops if CA made the mistake.
At a minimum, they should let those who need to pay it back have the same amount of time to do so as it took the government to discovery/notify the effected members - 10 years. But if Obummer can install immigration policy with the stroke of his pen, surely he can sign an EO to erase this 'debt' for servicemembers. But the bastard is too busy campaigning for his successor.