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5/20/2013 | - | 2014 Military Budget
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5/17/2013 | - | Financial Storm Dissipating
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5/16/2013 | - | Marking up a Congressional Bill
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5/14/2013 | - | Montana Makes It 46!
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5/10/2013 | - | Military Pay and Vets Benefits aren't the priority! | ||
5/2/2013 | - | Budgets and the Impact on Retention
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5/1/2013 | - | On this Day - Enlisted History
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4/29/2013 | - | Guard and Reserve Veteran Status Bill Clears a Hurdle
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4/28/2013 | - | Roundtable Discussion on Veterans
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| | 4/25/2013 | - | Your Loss - Chained CPI Proposals |
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Straight from the CEO: 2014 Military Budget On Wednesday, House Armed Services subcommittees will begin marking up the fiscal year 2014 National Defense Authorization (NDAA) bill. Over a course of two days lawmakers will make initial decisions on a number of very important programs affecting our members. These include military pay and earned healthcare benefits. Although current law allows a 1.8% military pay raise in January, the Administration has proposed capping it at 1%.
According to AFSA’s sources, House lawmakers are expected to ignore the DoD request and approve the full military pay raise. We also anticipate a favorable decision on TRICARE fees. In a newspaper interview last Thursday, Chairman of the Military Personnel Subcommittee Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), said he won't include fee increases for the military's health care program in his portion of the bill. "To me the fees should not be increased unless, indeed, there could be some justification, but there was no justification.” A word of caution here, the subcommittee mark is ... Read more ...
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