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by now, it must be heading backwards at the speed of light ..
CBS, August 14, 2003
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/topstories_story_226144638.html
"The Defense Department supports cutting combat pay for American troops.
"A recent increase in imminent danger pay, from $150 to $225 a month, and family separation allowances, from $100 to $250, will lapse Sept. 30 unless Congress and the White House act, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
"The Pentagon says it cannot afford the annual $300 million cost of the higher pay."__________
August 16, 2003
Critics, Pentagon agree cut in troops' pay not acceptable
Robert Burns, Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Presidential contenders and congressional Democrats criticized the Pentagon this week for opposing legislation that would extend an increase in combat pay for troops in Iraq and other war zones.
"If it's part of a cruel game of Washington budgeting, it's an abuse of our soldiers," one White House hopeful, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, said Thursday while campaigning in Iowa.
"If it's not, and the Bush administration is really considering cutting the pay of the men and women they asked to serve, then it's a betrayal of our troops," he added.
Pentagon officials said the criticism was off-base and that under no circumstances would troops in Iraq and Afghanistan be paid less.
But the Pentagon's position was called disgraceful by a second presidential candidate, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.).
The Pentagon's personnel chief, David Chu, told reporters at a hastily arranged news conference that the outrage was misguided. While it is true, he said, that the Pentagon favors allowing the extra combat pay allowances to expire in September, it will ensure that overall compensation for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan remains stable by giving them other forms <sic> of pay raises.
"I would just like to very quickly put to rest what I understand has been a burgeoning rumor that somehow we are going to reduce compensation for those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan," Chu said.
Last spring Congress approved a temporary increase in "imminent danger pay," from $150 a month to $225 a month for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. There also was an increase from $100 a month to $250 a month in allowances for troops away from their families because of war.Those increases expire Sept. 30, unless Congress votes to extend the raises in the 2004 budget.
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