It looks like DoD is looking at cutting the number of locations where folks will be eligible for imminent danger pay. Frankly I think it is a bit overdue, I never could reconcile how folks in the CAOC in Qatar were getting the same danger pay as the folks in Iraq and Afghanistan not to mention the former Yugoslavia over a decade after the shooting there stopped.
Even though it makes perfect sense to me some folks aren't happy at the prospect, according to some we should cut modernization of the Navy and Air Force instead. Apparently you can risk life and limb by hanging out in the bars and malls of Bahrain and Malaysia. I guess these folks hadn't herad of hostile fire pay which pays the same amount when actually attacked in areas not covered by imminent danger pay. I do think as the wars wind down some folks will have a hard time adjusting to new pay realities, I saw some folks downrange that had gotten very used to all the extra pay that came with being deployed.
Even though it makes perfect sense to me some folks aren't happy at the prospect, according to some we should cut modernization of the Navy and Air Force instead. Apparently you can risk life and limb by hanging out in the bars and malls of Bahrain and Malaysia. I guess these folks hadn't herad of hostile fire pay which pays the same amount when actually attacked in areas not covered by imminent danger pay. I do think as the wars wind down some folks will have a hard time adjusting to new pay realities, I saw some folks downrange that had gotten very used to all the extra pay that came with being deployed.
