A U.S. Army Special Forces weapons sergeant inspects a Nigerien service member’s weapon prior to entering a range as part of Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, Feb. 25, 2017. (Spc. Zayid Ballesteros/Army)
Military Times: DoD approves danger pay for Niger, Mali, Cameroon
Service members deployed to Niger, Mali and northern Cameroon qualify to receive imminent danger pay/hostile fire pay, retroactive to June 7, 2017, Defense Department announced Thursday.
The retroactive date will allow the families of Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, Sgt. La David Johnson and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright to collect an additional $225 a month for the time the soldiers were assigned there. The four soldiers were killed in an October 2017 ambush that is still the subject of an ongoing investigation.
Imminent danger pay is a flat monthly payment of $225 to troops on duty outside the U.S. and subject to physical harm or imminent danger due to wartime conditions, terrorism, civil insurrection or civil war.
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Update #1: U.S. Troops in Niger to Receive Combat Pay, Pentagon Says -- New York Times
Update #2: 5 Months After A Deadly Mission, Troops In Niger Are Finally Getting Danger Pay -- Task & Purpose
WNU editor: A belated acknowledgement that these countries are conflict zones
2 comments:
$225 a month? Thats not much.
It is not much, but it is what the military pays by law. In the military they do not willy nilly break the laws for financial reasons.
It is not much, but you hope that everyone is doing their job and this minimizing risk and it is (public) acknowledgement ($225) that you mare going or may potential go into harm's way.
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