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Stop-loss was created by the United States Congress after the Vietnam War. Its use is founded on Title 10, United States Code, Section 12305(a) which states in part: "... the President may suspend any provision of law relating to promotion, retirement, or separation applicable to any member of the armed forces who the President determines is essential to the national security of the United ...
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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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 ...
Terminal Lance is a comic strip and website created in 2010 by Maximilian Uriarte that satirizes United States Marine Corps life. Uriarte publishes the strip in the Marine Corps Times newspaper and on his own website, TerminalLance.com. The name is a slang term for a Marine who finishes an enlistment (i.e. terminates) as a lance corporal (E-3).
Section 8 was a category of military discharge employed by the United States Armed Forces which was used for servicemembers judged mentally unfit for service. The term "Section 8" eventually came to mean any service member given such a discharge, or behaving as if deserving such a discharge, as in the expression, "he's a Section 8".
As goes Wall Street, so goes the New York City real estate market. While Americans West of the Hudson might decry the return of big investment bank bonuses others-say, local real estate agents or ...
The U.S. Army relied heavily on the Military Selective Service Act to satisfy enlistment. [1] Additionally, re-enlistment rates were at an all-time low. [5] On October 13, 1970, General William Westmoreland announced his intentions to appoint an officer to oversee an Army program to move towards an all-volunteer force. [1]