Military Pay, Benefits, and RetirementRecruiting and career retention remain valid and important concerns of the US Congress and the Executive Branch in a world where the US has become involved in many military engagements in recent years with more apparently on the horizon. This book deals with the questions of pay levels, health care, retirement benefits and other aspects of the military experience. These issues take on even more significance with a military which has been downsized in numbers and upsized in electronic technology. Contents: Preface, Military Pay and Benefits; Military Health Care; Military Medical Care Services; Veterans' Pensions: Fact Sheet; Military Retirement: Major Legislative Issues; Military Technicians: The Issue of Mandatory Retirement for Non-Dual-Status Technicians. Subject Index. |
Contents
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Military Health Care The Issue of Promised Benefits | 23 |
Military Medical Care Services | 37 |
Veterans Pensions Fact Sheet | 57 |
Military Retirement | 61 |
Military Technicians The Issue of Mandatory Retirement for NonDual Status Technicians | 85 |
Index | 115 |
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Page 26 - ... medical and dental care in any facility of any uniformed service, subject to the availability of space and facilities and the capabilities of the medical and dental staff. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may, with the agreement of the Administrator of Veterans...
Page 27 - Superb Health Care. Health care is provided to you and your family members while you are in the Army, and for the rest of your life if you serve a minimum of 20 years of active Federal service to earn your retirement.
Page 28 - ... a federal statute and to prescribe rules and regulations to that end is not the power to make law — for no such power can be delegated by Congress — but the power to adopt regulations to carry into effect the will of Congress as expressed by the statute. A regulation which does not do this, but operates to create a rule out of harmony with the statute, is a mere nullity.
Page 33 - Government. (5) The availability of quality, lifetime health care is a critical recruiting incentive for the Armed Forces. (6) Quality health care is a critical aspect of the quality of life of the men and women serving in the Armed Forces. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS. — It is the sense of Congress that — (1) the United States has incurred a moral obligation to provide health care to members and former members of the Armed Forces who are entitled to retired or retainer pay (or its equivalent); (2)...
Page 34 - ... in medical facilities of the uniformed services subject to the availability of space and facilities, and the capabilities of the professional staff.
Page 86 - Bill (SRMGIB) may be available to you if you are a member of the Selected Reserve. The Selected Reserve includes the Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and Coast Guard Reserve, and the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. You may use this education assistance program for degree programs, certificate or correspondence courses, cooperative training, independent study programs, apprenticeship/on-thejob training, and vocational flight training...
Page 105 - ... animals, and equipment thereof, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe : Provided, That the men to be compensated, not to exceed five for each battery or troop, shall be duly enlisted therein and shall be...
Page 111 - Section 8018 requires that a technician in the administration and training of the Army Reserve and the maintenance and repair of supplies issued to the Army Reserve...
Page 27 - Service report concludes that the "free health care for life" promise was functionally true and had been used to good advantage for recruiting and retention. 1995: Stephen Joseph, MD, assistant secretary of defense (health affairs), testifies before Congress that DoD has an "implied moral commitment" to provide health care to all eligible beneficiaries.
Page 109 - AGR's. On February 26, 1979, GAO reported to the Secretary of Defense (FPCD-79-18) that the Army Reserve's technician program was not fully achieving its objective of increasing mobilization readiness because 26 percent of the technicians- were assigned as drilling reservists to military positions in units other than the one in which they were employed and 20 percent were status quo technicians. In its report on DOD's Appropriation Bill for FY 1980 (House Report 96-450), the House Appropriations...