Soldiers still waiting for tour bonuses

[unhappycamper]

Source: USA Today

Soldiers still waiting for tour bonuses
By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has not started complying with a law requiring the payment of monthly bonuses of up to $500 to soldiers forced to remain on active duty beyond their enlistment period, military officials said.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman acknowledged the five-month delay in paying the bonuses and said the Defense Department is working on a plan to start paying the almost 13,000 soldiers currently under the Army's stop-loss orders. Although Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to end the policy, the number of soldiers affected has risen since the middle of 2007.

Congress added $72 million to pay for the bonuses in its plan for the budget year that started Oct. 1. The money was to be paid after the Pentagon submitted a plan outlining how the payments would be made.

But no plan has been provided, Rob Blumenthal, a spokesman for the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Friday.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-02-22-stop-loss-pay_N.htm

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In case you didn't know it, DoD is still stop-lossing soldiers

[DrDan]

1. its the only way they can come close to making their targets

start letting them go, and the recruiting targets will have to be increased.

[sarcasmo]

2. Imagine, the Government not paying out bonuses to the Military. I am shocked!

Shocked! I tell you just Shocked!

[progressoid]

3. Would it help if we buy more magnetic ribbons?

[Mari333]

4. gee , if it were Congress voting themselves a pay increase

it would have happened yesterday.
bastards.

[LostinVA]

5. "AIG to Seek More Government Money"

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What is wfong with this picture?