BUFDRVR wrote:
Scott MacEachern wrote:
Given George II's record on hazardous duty pay for troops in
Afghanistan and Iraq, I don't think that you want to go there....

Hmm, having received HDP for over a year of the last 3, can you explain
what Bush has done (or tried to do) in regards to HDP?

He's probably referring to the brouhaha over the increases in HDP and
FSA that Congress authorized in April '03 (retroactive to October '02),
which were set to expire in October '03 if they weren't made permanent
by Congress. Word was that Rumsfeld and other DOD brass were perfectly
happy to let them expire, as they hadn't been included in the FY03
budget and were really screwing things up, finance-wise. This got turned
into "BushCo wants to cut pay for personnel serving in Iraq and
Afghanistan" by many media outlets, including the Army Times.

Despite googling in multiple directions, I have been unable to determine
the resolution of this issue.

-Marc

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