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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: flowers on January 06, 2014, 06:59:45 pm

Title: 20 Areas Removed from Imminent Danger Pay List
Post by: flowers on January 06, 2014, 06:59:45 pm

http://freebeacon.com/20-areas-removed-from-imminent-danger-pay-list/

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The Defense Department removed 20 locations from its imminent danger pay list. The removal will go into effect on June 1 and will potentially affect tens of thousands of troops, Military Times reports.

    As of that date, service members deployed to these areas no longer will qualify for the $225 monthly imminent danger stipend. The change would affect thousands serving on land or on ships in those areas. […]

    Those locations that no longer will be designated as imminent danger areas are:

    ■ The four water areas of the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, and the Red Sea.

    ■ The water area and air space above the Persian Gulf.

    ■ The six land areas and air space above Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, and Montenegro.

    ■ The nine land areas of East Timor, Liberia, Haiti, Oman, Rwanda, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Kyrgystan, and Uzbekistan.

Title: Re: 20 Areas Removed from Imminent Danger Pay List
Post by: truth_seeker on January 06, 2014, 07:11:57 pm

Is this the same as what once was called "hazardous duty pay?"

Title: Re: 20 Areas Removed from Imminent Danger Pay List
Post by: musiclady on January 09, 2014, 03:09:21 pm

Does this mean the Obama DOD doesn't think radical Islam (i.e terrorists), present any "imminent danger" now that Obama has healed the world?    **nononono*

Title: Re: 20 Areas Removed from Imminent Danger Pay List
Post by: Bigun on January 09, 2014, 03:24:39 pm

This administration inspires only one emotion in me and it isn't a good one!  :banghead: