Content Manager posted on December 28, 2009 16:09
(STARS AND STRIPES 27 DEC 09) ... Tom Philpott
Should military pilots who have been reassigned from cockpits to ground-based computer consoles to fly remotely-piloted vehicles continue to draw the same flight pay as pilots who still fly jets and helicopters?
Should reserve component personnel on lengthy overseas assignments in locales like Germany continue to draw the same overseas cost-of-living allowances as active duty counterparts?
Is it time to review and possibly streamline various piecemeal improvements made in recent years to compensation and benefits provided to wounded warriors and their families?
These are some of the questions to be answered next year by a new Department of Defense pay study -- the 11th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (QRMC). President Obama ordered the study to begin in a Dec. 11 memo to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
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