[tom999q]

Oh wow, well that throws a monkey wrench into the scenario, ONLY if the car was on the base at the time of his death. (I know, I was in the Army until 2009). If it was, then all his possessions on the base would go to his next of kin. If it was off base at the time of his death, then the executor (whomever that is) would have the legal right to take possession and dispose of it...

The grave site and burial were PARTIALLY at the expense of the Army (unless his family chose otherwise). There were, however, peripheral expenses associated with the funeral/ burial that someone in the family had to pay for (usually the executor directly from the money in the estate of the deceased). If I were you, I'd find out who paid the remaining burial expenses, as that is usually the person who has the legal power to do so....

There's also the possibility that no executor was chosen, and the car sat in the lot at the base for years (I've seen this a lot to abandoned cars on the bases I've been to, mainly because a soldier pcs'd to another base and left their car behind) until someone just took it... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/dunno.gif[/img]