Remembering Military Personnel With a Bigger Pay Raise
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Just a few hours before Congress departed for its Memorial Day break, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved a bill that would provide a bigger pay raise for the troops, pump up management oversight at the Defense Department and guarantee union rights under a new personnel system.
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Congress on Saturday approved a &#36;477 billion defense bill with a military pay raise and new money for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Americans have opened nearly 1,000 new graves to bury U.S. troops killed in Iraq since Memorial Day a year ago. The figure is telling &#151; and expected to rise in coming months.
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The Defense Department's new civilian personnel system will cost more than the $158 million estimated by the Pentagon, a congressional report suggests.
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Pentagon plans unusual bonuses totaling $160 million to keep elite troops from retiring.
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Â· Military spending to hit highest level since WWIIÂ· Plans will leave successor with spending headache
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The House on Wednesday passed a new defense policy bill that includes a pay raise for troops.
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Concerned that Congress is moving toward providing a 2.2 percent pay raise for the military next year, a leading veterans' group said that with troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, this is not the time to skimp on a raise.
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France is to increase pension payouts to war veterans from its former colonies, the government says.
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Pay for members of the armed forces will rise by 2.6% from April, the Defence Secretary has announced.
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Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman see profits surge, helped by orders for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The U.S. Army National Guard,  battered by its major role in the Iraq war, announced on  Thursday it would increase enlistment bonuses to attract new  recruits and seek $20 billion to replace arms and equipment.
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Massachusetts workers can expect merit pay raises of 3 to 4.5 percent this year, up slightly from last year, according to a new survey.
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President Bush today signed an executive order that provides nearly 1.8 million federal employees with an average 3.5 percent pay raise and also increases salaries by smaller percentages for the armed forces, members of Congress, federal judges, diplomats and others.
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Spc. Robert Loria of Middletown, N.Y., lost his arm in Iraq, but instead of a farewell paycheck from the Army he got a bill for nearly &#36;1,800. On Friday a platoon of New York lawmakers came to his rescue. Loria found himself stuck in Fort Hood in Texas this week when Army officials said he owed money for travel expenses and for lost equipment.
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The US military will boost its troops in Iraq to 150,000 this month, the highest level since the war began in March 2003, in order to improve security for scheduled Jan 30.
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&#39;Our military is the pride of our country. We can&#39;t pay them enough to do the things that we ask of them -- the sacrifices, the separations, the heroics.