Browsing: pay and benefits

The nation’s No. 2 military officer reiterated calls to curb service members’ pay and benefits during a speech Wednesday at the Air Force Association Air and Space Conference in National Harbor, Md. Growth in pay and benefits is “out of touch and simply not sustainable,” said Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. James Winnefeld. “While everyone here would agree that our magnificent men and women in uniform deserve more than the average bear, we simply cannot sustain our recent growth trajectory in pay and benefits and expect to preserve a properly sized, trained and equipped force,” Winnefeld…

The Air Force may reinstitute its tuition assistance program as early as August. In this week’s edition of Air Force Times, you can read how the Air Force is working to restore the program amid budget cuts and what scholarships and other incentives are available to airmen until tuition assistance returns. Also this week: The Air Force’s top legal authority and officials from the other services went before irate lawmakers on March 13 to defend commanders’ authority to overturn a verdict from a military jury. The military criminal justice system has come under sharp criticism from Congress since Third Air…

The Air Force may reinstitute its tuition assistance program as early as August. In this week’s edition of Air Force Times, you can read how the Air Force is working to restore the program amid budget cuts and what scholarships and other incentives are available to airmen until tuition assistance returns. Also this week: The Air Force’s top legal authority and officials from the other services went before irate lawmakers on March 13 to defend commanders’ authority to overturn a verdict from a military jury. The military criminal justice system has come under sharp criticism from Congress since Third Air…

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