Deployment related pay delayed for deployed Soldiers
The Army decided to delay providing Operational Deployment Pay to deployed Soldiers, without providing hints on when these payments will occur. This additional pay varies depending on rank. Army officials stated that the details for this specific pay were not completely sorted out. This confusion resulted in pay errors. The Army wanted to fix these “glitches” before moving forward with disbursing this pay.
From Military.com:
“The Army is reviewing the Operational Deployment Pay policy and, as such, we will not be implementing the policy on Oct. 1,” Bryce Dubee, a service spokesperson, said in a statement. “When the review is complete, we will provide additional guidance.”
The memo was widely circulated and briefed to commanders as recently as two weeks ago, service officials told Military.com. At the time, the Army did not respond to requests for comment when asked about numerous uncertainties in the policy — such as how the service is paying for it or whether it stacks on top of other deployment bonuses, including imminent fire pay for troops in combat zones. The policy also suggested troops who are hospitalized would lose their bonus pay, which was potentially a typo or gross oversight.
“We got ahead of our skis here; it was inappropriate to brief leaders on clearly underbaked policy,” one Army official with direct knowledge of the situation told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. “This should’ve never made it as far as it did.”
Traditionally, such huge policy shifts are tweaked for months at the Pentagon and circulated among top brass for feedback, but word of the bonus pay made its way down to the junior soldier level in some units currently deployed — leading to some commanders having to warn subordinates not to rely on any new money in their pockets, given the uncertainty around the policy.
The deployment bonus was exclusive to the Army. Some services have unique duty pay, such as the Navy’s sea pay.
The move to give soldiers a little extra pay comes amid a frantic schedule of deployments that outpaces the cadence of missions from the peak of the Global War on Terrorism. The pace of combat missions has dramatically scaled down in the past decade, but troops are still deployed in combat zones in Africa and the Middle East — though conventional units are rarely engaged in direct combat operations.
Additional Reading:
Beynon, S. (2024, September 25). Army delays bonus pay for deployed Soldiers. Military.com. Link.
The five sided funny farm always coming up with new and innovative ways to fuck the Joes. “Vergognoso” as my grandmother used to say…
Once again…
And the military leadership wonders why it has recruiting and retention problems.
SSDD?
Is that YOU, Hunter?
We simply fixed the glitch…
Nice Office Space reference!
It’s ironic that there never is a “glitch” that stops benefits to illegals..
Or welfare flunkies.
eggsxactly what I was thinking, ‘nana. Our grubermint is cutting pay/benefits for Americans, but we have plenty of $s to give away to invaders and foreign grubermints. And some wonder how Trump managed to get us $35 TRILLION in debt.
Of course it’s Trumps fault. Have you not been paying attention to the news? 😏
Trump only made it go from $16T to $17T, but of course the increase over this current admin is all his, too. /sarc
Kamaler said so.
YEAH, but do the pampered perfumed Princes of the Pentagon ever have pay issues? ditto with he pols in DC?
Bless their hearts sideways.
No they’ll still do their three day inspection tour, that touches down on the 30th at 2300 local and leave on the 1st, and get their 2 months tax free and Hazzard pay.
Don’t forget the free SSI-FWTS if it’s a combat zone!
They’ll be fine. Kamala says they’re not in a combat situation.
Yes, she says none of our soldiers, sailors, air persons, or marines are in harm’s way.
The spokespersons name is perfect for the story. Bryce Dubee: “a blunt that has been smoked till just before the roach. you can save it for later.”
His great uncle, Ashley Roachclip, played with the Jefferson Hairpie in the 70’s.
Another
Epic Fail….
Army
Kinda like screwing 3 dozen warriors out of the possibility of receiving a MOH who served in Iraq
Because you thought it was a low intensity police action…
Vietnam was a police action. Was never a declared war.
As has been said I’m sure by many before, let’s hold the HMFIC’s pay until they get the “glitches” fixed. No pay, no per diem when they go home to “visit” constituents. No reimbursement for expenses incurred. Buy their own transportation, any travel voucher submitted to be summarily denied.
I had to buy my own ticket to get home. I never saw any reimbursement. DC-8 from Udorn to Yakota, to Travis. And we could not fly over Vietnam or China in 75. Flight was long. The part from Yakota to Travis was 12 hours alone. Sounds like nothing has changed in 50 years.
Travis to Kadena, via Alaska and Tokyo/Yakota(?) was gawd awful long. I didn’t care or know what countries we did or didn’t fly over. This was 79, and I remember seeing the sun coming up in Alaska, and again in Japan.
I mentioned my flight route because having to fly from 19 miles south of Laos down to southern border of Cambodia and Vietnam and then fly out past the Tonkin Gulf heading up to Japan added a lot of miles to my flight from Japan to the US. We couldn’t fly over china or Vietnam or we could have saved on flight time. And back then we had navigators so precise routes and communist boundaries had to be given a large berth to avoid MIGS. We had to have an F-4 escort for part of the route due to an infraction of airspace with north Vietnam at the beginning of our flight, when the civilian pilot tried to fly direct to Japan. I think I spent at least 24 hours in the air , with stops for refueling, before getting to Travis to catch my flight to Chicago via Texas. Long flight for sure.
What would Field Marshal Walz do in such a situation?
My guess is that he would offer the the troops a pre-qualified loan from the Bank of Biden at 12% per month secured by an monthly allotment, with additional fees for Life Insurance and a Confessed Judgment for default.
He would do this and say suck it.
https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1840150003165045153
And the Army goes rolling along….
“(T)roops are still deployed in combat zones in Africa and the Middle East — though conventional units are rarely engaged in direct combat operations”.
That can’t be true, Kacklin’ Kamala said there were no troops deployed anywhere near combat zones.