You serious, Dr Gogue?
Ok, so it took me a bit to wrap my head around this. I thought for certain that everyone was looking into it wrong. I read the AL.com article by Brandon Marcello real quick before I had to go teach my History of the US Army class this afternoon, so I skimmed it and thought "eh, that seems pretty normal."
Then I got back and argued my thoughts in the comments here for a bit before a DM with WarRoom Eagle actually made me re-examine the article in detail and discover that the contract was NOT what I initially suspected.