SFC Ollie
Still Marching
Efforts to Protect Military Pay Stalled
With the threat of another gov*ern*ment shut*down loom*ing, the topic of mil*i*tary pay is once again mak*ing the news. Thank*fully, the last two times the issue came up, a shut*down was avoided and mil*i*tary servicemembers pay was unaf*fected. How*ever, the real issue is the threat con*tin*ues to cause undue stress on mil*i*tary ser*vice*mem*bers and their fam*i*lies.
Ear*lier this year Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) intro*duced the Ensur*ing Pay for Our Mil*i*tary Act of 2011 to make sure that pay for mil*i*tary mem*bers is never used as a bar*gain*ing chip. His bill cur*rently has 203 co-sponsors rep*re*sent*ing mem*bers from both par*ties. How*ever, his bill has been lan*guish*ing in the Armed Ser*vices Com*mit*tee and Trans*porta*tion and Infra*struc*ture Com*mit*tee.
Read more: http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2011/09/efforts-to-protect-military-pay-stalled/#ixzz1Z671i9eH
MilitaryAdvantage.Military.com
With the threat of another gov*ern*ment shut*down loom*ing, the topic of mil*i*tary pay is once again mak*ing the news. Thank*fully, the last two times the issue came up, a shut*down was avoided and mil*i*tary servicemembers pay was unaf*fected. How*ever, the real issue is the threat con*tin*ues to cause undue stress on mil*i*tary ser*vice*mem*bers and their fam*i*lies.
Ear*lier this year Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) intro*duced the Ensur*ing Pay for Our Mil*i*tary Act of 2011 to make sure that pay for mil*i*tary mem*bers is never used as a bar*gain*ing chip. His bill cur*rently has 203 co-sponsors rep*re*sent*ing mem*bers from both par*ties. How*ever, his bill has been lan*guish*ing in the Armed Ser*vices Com*mit*tee and Trans*porta*tion and Infra*struc*ture Com*mit*tee.
Read more: http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2011/09/efforts-to-protect-military-pay-stalled/#ixzz1Z671i9eH
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