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Congress made a big demand Tuesday following revelations that the Pentagon forced soldiers to return bonuses that were doled out more than a decade ago. Congress demands info about reenlistment ...
The fiscal year 2010 president's budget request for a 2.9% military pay raise was consistent with this formula. However, Congress, in fiscal years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009 approved the pay raise as the ECI increase plus 0.5%.
The Defense Secretary ordered the Pentagon on Wednesday to stop clawing-back the bonuses that thousands of soldiers got for reenlisting to serve. DoD Sec. Ash Carter orders Pentagon to stop ...
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In the 2010 episode "Moving the Chains" of the American television series House, a patient confesses to Gregory House that he has been served with a stop-loss order after completing his enlistment service. In 2015, stop-loss was used as a plot device in an episode of The Last Ship. When 16 men wanted to get off the ship, one enlisted member's ...
For example, in 2017 about 1 in 20 applicants to the British Army were eventually enlisted. [61] Most state armed forces that enlist minors (persons under the age of 18) are required by law to obtain the informed consent of one or both parents or legal guardians before their child's enlistment can take place. [62]
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
The U.S. Army announced that it will pay up to $50,000 – its largest bonus ever – to recruits who qualify and sign on for a six-year active-duty enlistment. The bonus package is based on a ...