A House panel has backed a 2.7 percent pay increase for troops beginning January 1, 2022.
The increase was included in the $706 billion spending bill for the Defense Department for fiscal 2022.
Once signed into law, the bill would increase the Pentagon’s funding by $10 billion compared to 2021 spending levels.
The 2022 pay increase falls a little short of the 3 percent increase troops saw last year.
Troops’ pay raises are all but guaranteed each year, but don’t always keep up with inflation and civilian pay boosts.
However, lawmakers for the past five years have opted to stick with the federal formula for pay raises and not make any changes, citing the need to keep military salaries competitive with private-sector pay.
For junior enlisted troops, a 2.7 percent raise in 2022 would amount to roughly $790 more a year in pay over 2021 levels.
For senior enlisted and junior officers, that hike equals about $1,400 more. An O-4 with 12 years service would see more than $2,600 extra next year under a 2.7 percent increase.
Military Times
The defense budget is expected to be a challenge for lawmakers in coming months, according to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA).
Conservatives believe the spending total is far too low to address current threats facing our nation. They would like to see the budget top $750 billion.
Progressives in Congress disagree and are pushing for further spending cuts, claiming the Department of Defense has seen too-late increases in the past few years.
Whao, so much political hate on this site. I am a disabled Vietnam Vet. Instead of so much bickering and complaining, why don’t you run for office and fix all these things you’re bitching about. It’s easy to complain from the comfort of your couch. Now, about our politicians, they are all a bunch of crooks who get into office aspiring to make themselves richer than they already are. There are still maybe 2 or 3 that actually want to help this country. The rich just want to get richer and screw the middle class and poor. Unfortunately, these days you can only vote between the 2 worst candidates, one has to win. We need more veterans in the senate and congress before anyone will care about Veterans. Most of our current “representatives” have no clue what it’s like to be in the jungle getting shot at or seeing your best friend get his legs blown off. They were mostly born with a silver spoon and all the benefits of their rich daddies. Why would they care about anyone else? We should be voting for he/she that might make us better instead of fighting each other about what party is better. Get some real Vets in office, Those that actually were in the field, from the bottom, not those that daddy got into officer candidate schools and went straight to being officers.
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Probably because the Democrats/progressives are a bunch of lying, cheating bastards.
Social Security recipients, disabled vets, and retired military COLA’s are based on the cost of living, which is projected at 5-6% over 2020. Chances are, the COLA will be 2% or less.
But worry not. Congress will most certainly take care of themselves.
David, thank you for your service. But is your disability affecting your brain? Please read what you publish before making off-center comments. “All politicians are crooks”. Really?
“Instead of bickering and complaining, why don’t you run for office and fix these things your bitching about. It’s easy to complain from the comfort of your couch”.
Who in the world would support a president who mandates COVID vaccines to the general public but not for the illegal aliens entering our country.
I also don’t understand how our brown and black citizens of America can support a president who has done absolutely nothing for them. All Biden wants are their votes. Don’t fall for this administration’s cheap tactics to garner votes.
As an Air Force retiree, I will tell you, overall the US military despises Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. No past administration has ever left American citizens behind in a unfriendly environment. It’s shameless, and the Biden administration should be removed before it’s too late
How in the hell did you make 06? What kind of an ahole would make such a moronic claim that overall the US military despises Biden and Harris. Thank God you are retired and can no longer screw things up.
You are clear proof the promotion system had holes in it.
AF Retired O5.
The only ahole is you liberals who want to distroy our Nation!! E-5
O6 is correct
Over 80% of active military do not support biden. Administration. This is especially been reinforced in his inability to successfully extract all US citizens out of Afghanistan
You are a Communistic ahole who should not have accended to the rank you were blessed with. I bet you troops just love you?
Wow and what makes your remark so wonderful by the sounds of it he’s probably forgot more then you’ll ever know
That is the reason that he make O6 Ann you stop you ass in the o5 go to VA to check for your brain . I see that your promotion during your service was only using political support. The worse is be blain to the reality your president is a moron, incompetent that need to be impeach. Wake up next time you gonna be responding to the Socialist party of United States. This thank you too Biden, AOC and Morons like you that don’t see the reality of life.
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Dito Ross response. If you’re going to complain and be part of the problem, not the solution… find another place to live. We don’t need people like you representing the Armed Forces. I don’t think like you. Do you think that the previous administration was better with a crazy, lunatic PUTO and a bunch of hipócrita followers, that did nothing except enriching themselves.
Ross, you sound like a typical “Yes Sir” man. “Yes Sir, I’ll piss my pants for you. Yes Sir, I’ll lick the bottom of your boots.” It’s people like you who are gutless in their attempts to question authority, and improve upon a “broken and deteriorating environment. Are you retired because the military had enough of your ineptitude or because you’re such a coward? I suspect both. I’m glad you’re retired and I’m sure the military feels the same way.
Very well said I totally agree with everything you said here
Oops your statement is full of holes. This administration has managed to keep this country a float during this pandemic- the former could only play golf, steal from the American taxpayers, lie and hold I Love Me Rallies, and caused thousands of people to get sick and DIE!
This administration has secured the future of millions of children out of poverty! And oh either you weren’t around during Viet Nam and thousands were left behind – so get your story straight there is such a thing as the truth! You should exercise it!
hay charlie you are full of s— clear too you eye balls and deaf and dumb than post i would too meet you in a dark alley you ass hole
Sir, you are 100% on .
Will the increase include disability payments? I have a 30% disability from service in Korea in 1951..
Well what was the answer?
Will the increase include disability payments? I have a 30% disability from service in Korea in 1951..
Will the increase include disability payments? I have a 30% disability from service in Korea in 1951.
What is the new pay scale?for mdv with 20 percent or more
Why is it the people that do nothing, congress & the senate with their useless helpers, get more than those who have sacrificed everything????? For their country?
AGREE
Gary, we are Ambassadors to the tax payers of this great country. We didn’t join the US Military for great pay or berthing. We are a volunteer force who joined because it’s our DUTY.
Umm, only our “duty” once we chose to make it so. Gladly and proudly served 31 years, enlisted then officer, and would have died for my country if so needed, but that doesn’t mean we should be low-paid labor? Congress has way too many bennies and are overpaid, especially considering the job they’re currently doing!!
Because the elites in D C are more interested in yheir own worthless hides. I am a 87 year old Korean War and Vietnam Vet and got a humiliating scrrening by the TSA
I feel that Veterans are being left out…
The most important part about these replies is our right to speak freely. As. Vet myself, been around for a while and have experienced a bundle of political miscarriages of our system on both sides of the fence. We have had plenty of mediocre presidents over the years but I’ll have to say, the last Republican one was no where near Presidential anything. He simply should not have been able to get into the White House, period. I’ve never been more ashamed of being an American during his time in office. Sad part is, a lot of people feel the same from both sides of the fence. The ones I don’t much care for are the ones who simply turned a blind eye to all of indignant acts he was involved in with absolutely no remorse about the consequences it caused. Sorry, January 6th was pure and simple, an outright act of Sedition and the greater part of the world knew it. Now, as for this raise, hogwash. Over the past thirty years we’ve never had a true COLA. Each time it’s come up live now, the cost of goods and services go up before we get any size increase. The industry has gone from of the people and for the people to just simply greed. I’m not the only one, there are millions of us who’ve noticed over the years how the industry has embraced technology in a way that keeps them profitable no matter what it does to the general populace. What use to be a fairly standard size box for X dollars began to be a manipulative tool for them. Same product got smaller but the price got higher. By the time we actually receive said COLA we’re actually right back where we started from. I don’t necessarily want to get ahead but at least keep pace. On the other hand, the more disposable cash I have, the more apt I’d be able to support businesses in general.
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Our military leadership has been slowly eroding. Now our military leadership are
draining out into the swamp with the likes of Rapist Clinton’s, Fake Odummers, Biden’s Pedi/Druggie examples. Their supporters/followers of current POS POTUS Biden are laughing stocks of the world. It is so sad when his supporters are so brainwashed by the MSM. Foreign aid and illegal immigration monies are higher priority than our military. Maybe Biden supporters should all personally invite illegals immigrants into their homes. They could share drugs, wife’s and daughter’s to the sex trade and other illegal activities. Do not give them protection from police officers or military. Let them riot and watch themselves self-destruct. Only the armed and strong will survive., so let it be as they want and watch as the illegal aliens give any credence to the false Utopia security. Yes, I am a disable, retired vet and Still capable to take care of myself and family from the skills I learned in the military. Let’s get rid of gay freaks and confused transgender clowns out of our military turned circus actors and performers. Our military is to defend our country and family and kill our enemies! Our Military is not world babysitters, coddlers, or experimental body people.
If you are my enemy foreign or domestic, in my eyes, there is only enough room and air to breath for your or me. I guarantee you, I will survive!
Quit bitching about Biden being in the White House. He’s in there. And he isn’t going anywhere. And thank God Trump is gone! That ass hat should’ve never been in office. I
Biden is a Special Ed Student ! Or do we just call him an idiot ? He lies, cheats and is in with Dumb ass Bill Gates & moron Fauci…
You really are a dumb ass. It seems like you only listen to the media that lies to you all the time. If you were intelligent and paid attention to all that President Trump had accomplished while in office, you would not be making stupid comments like you just made. I’m a Vietnam Vet myself but you must have been one of the draftees. I volunteered for Vietnam because I wanted to do my fair share. Wise up and pay attention in the future!
Congratulation I’m 100% with you. Commander Nelson Hernández (Ret)
It’s good to be blain and don’t see the reality of your president that is taking this Country more close to a socialist country. Is sat that individual lack you till believing in individual like Biden and AOC real communist . See you neurologist to look for your brain
I agree and my feelings are the same. Thanks for speaking for me.
you failed to mention that this is just your opinion the issue should be brought up that service connected disabled over 70% do not receive housing allowance with the average rent or mortgage at 1000 a month that is on third of the monthly allotment for these disabled vets now that is a topic that is screwed up
Are you really an American vet?
Sound like a DTS infected china hack to me.
DJT is the first President in more than 50 years that DID NOT START A NEW WAR!
I think your a hack! If Trump was so bad I’m sure your loving this Administration??? Shame on you!!!
Don’t know what world you live in. The last Republican President is far better than our current Commander-In-Chief. A total flop. He will go down in the top three worst presidents we have had. I will mention that the other two were also democrats.
I totally agree with you. First, DEMOCRAT Harry Truman got rid of Gen. Douglas McArthur who wanted to defeat North Korea. We had hundreds of thousands of experienced WWII vets who could have been part of the force. If we had finished the job and defeated North Korea despite the Chicoms, we won’t have any problems with a communist dictatorship in North Korea today. It would have been one Korea. Second, DEMOCRAT President Jimmy Carter got the Shah of Iran out and brought back the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini who instantly killed tens of thousands of Iranians who supported the Shah. Third, DEMOCRATS Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and politicized the FBI and Department of Justice and weakened the U.S. Military. It was under Obama’s feckless and cowardly leadership that Chinese built their fortress in the South China Sea that endangers all ships traveling through that sea. Now, it seems like DEMOCRAT Joe Biden is further weakening the military through that fiasco in Afghanistan and left thousands of U.S. citizens behind. Why didn’t he take out all U.S. Citizens first and then announce our withdrawal? We should have kept our air base there until all of our military equipment and armaments were taken out. All these DEMOCRATS screwed everything up. President restored the might of our U.S. Military. Sad to say, he should have fired a very incompetent and very disloyal of Gen. Milley who was also responsible for the current debacle in Afghanistan.
Sorry. I mistakenly left out Trump. I meant to say REPUBLICAN President Donald Trump restored our military and made it strong again. I feel very confident his administration would have done a better job of taking out ALL U.S. citizens and Afghan refugees who helped us during our stay in Afghanistan BEFORE announcing our departure from that country.
Senior Richard, You really need to stop reading and absorbing all the fake news you seem to have digested. I know it’s difficult to do any critical thinking when you are bombarded daily with mainstream media crap. Trump did more for the military and minority groups than any past president in history except for Reagan. This demented poor excuse for a president we have now does not know how to do anything except line his and his families pockets. He cares nothing about anyone other than himself and his pocket book. Take a quick check on his career. 45 years of corruption in everything he did.
Empathy and care about America, its military or its citizens? Nothing! Example: Southern Border. Explain to me how it’s any good for 150,000 per month of illegal immigration, aliens, terrorists, criminals, drug runners, and COVID carriers per month come through the US Southern border. One job of the government is to protect our borders! No Borders, No Country! Afghanistan, How many thousands of US Citizens did he leave behind? How many thousands of allied Afghan US Supporters did he leave behind? Most of which will be tortured and killed for helping us. I sure hope you don’t think its OK to treat our allies and citizens this way? The demented nitwit is making us the laughing stock of the world. Can’t even remember his wife’s name or what he is talking about half the time, even with prompting cards. Watch his meeting with the King of Jordan. Couldn’t even read his talking points cards and the media had to be escorted out of the room before he was even one third through the meeting! What a joke! Same with almost all the public appearances he makes. Why does he not take questions after any of them? Can’t and won’t because he can’t remember what he said 5 minutes ago. Big problem, if he’s removed, what follows is cackling worse. How on earth did we get into this mess.
As far as your comments on the raise. I agree with you wholeheartedly on the COLA joke. Except when we got some decent raises with Trump in office (Where were you when we got them?), the Democrats were always against any raises for the military. Even here and now, Democrats as a group are against any raises for the people who risked and gave up there lives for them. They are like Clinton, she hated the military. This latest “Infrastructure” bill only has about 11% for infrastructure, the rest is pure democrap corruption garbage. Your right, the COLA this time at 2.7% only puts us farther behind the actual inflation rate which is approaching 5.7% this last quarter (as this out of control democrat spending spree destroys our monetary system). We usually only fall behind one or two % each year. Now we can look forward to falling behind 3 – 5% per year. That means our checks, in ten years, will only buy half as much as now. Can hardly wait.
Being a veteran myself, i agree with Senior Richard 100%. I enlisted and served proudly USA 1966-1970. Given all that happened during the last administration, I don’t know if i would have served the “wealthy” of this country again, PROBABLY NOT!!!!
Pull your head out and wash your hair, Dummy!
We get the shaft again..Congress staff get their high gimmie money and we are left holding the bill again as usual.
wiil Retirees get the pay raise
Yes along with SS raise
Military retiree Pay raises, or “Cost of Living Adjustments” (COLA) are not part of the DoD budget. They are tied to the cost of living increase over the last year (presumably fiscal – 1 Oct 2020 – 30 Sept 2021).
Of course, Congress has the final say, and if the COL went up by 3.5%, which is not outside the realm of possibility, the congress critters will, undoubtedly, take care of themselves, but will say a 3.5% raise is too much for military retirees (and Social Security recipients, and vets getting a disability pension from the VA). Those folks will probably get a 1.5% COLA. 2% if the party controlling congress is in a good mood.
It’s my guess that most congressmen and senators, having spent little or no time in the uniforms of their country, have no clue what military service is all about, and tend to look down their noses at us, For them, I sincerely hope there is a very special, very hot place in Hell waiting for them.
Yes. Instead of spending billions of dollars on illegal aliens coming through our southern border, why not give that money to our military personnel, disabled vets and Social Security recipients and give them a larger increase around the 10% range? Why spend all that money on people who do not have the right to be in the country?
Totally agree with you
I believe our increases are part of the SSA increase.
Inflation is rising at a rate of over 5%. This is the earliest a pay raise has been announced. Seems they are trying to get it through the back door as cheap as they can. Have you seen the cost of meat, gas, utilities, rents, food etc. It is far more than 2.7%. Once again the Govt. is shafting the little guy. Social Security and Military Retirees get much less. We really take a whipping. Lucky if we get 1.2%. I have been beaten so many times by the shaft, the shaft has been replaced 3 or 4 times now.
Always shaft retirees. We were responsible for preserving freedom until trump mania struck. I’ll bet there are a lot of retirees would be willing to fight the trump mania if it comes to that. Trump has disgraced the office of President, the American people and himself. Get rid of him or kiss Lady Liberty good bye. I am 84 and never in my life have I seen anyone like trump.
I would rather vote for Trump and/or a Republican before I would vote or approve any greedy Democrat who are looking out for themselves and no one else!
I agree.
I also agree!
I agree also. Trump did more for the military than anyone before or since
Agree
Biden and his Demorats are taking care of “SHAFTING EVERYONE” in his “Fraudulent role as POTUS”!!!!!!!
Your a imbecile, Trump did no such thing, we received more under Trump then any other President!
I totally agree with you on the Trump disgrace to America!
If Trump was a disgrace, What do you call the demented idiot and his assistant Camel toe?
Senility must be a blessing, to old to realize what is going on around you is not an excuse..Wake up and take a good look around you now!! How do you like the awakening?? Sad that so many people LIKE you are so miss informed..we all have the right we fought for but the examples you taint the masses with is ridiculous..Have a nice day..
Thank you, yes. Well said
always preference you personal opinions by starting or ending with ‘in my opinion’ avoids u post from looking like a loon
President Trump is the best thing this country has seen for decades. Not a demonrat one can you say did a positive thing for this country like he has. That is why the whole world is waiting for him too. To vote against him is to vote to take the flag down and put the gay one up like what was there with the gay implant.
Do you think that you are better off now with this sick nut in office than you were last year at this time. We now have Afghanistan with 84 billion dollars of our best military gear in the hands of animals and an administration that is going to give them 64 million in aid. We lost 13 brave military people because of this administration for nothing. He has caused the world to hate America. We no longer have the trust of other countries of the world. This was not caused by Trump. As far as socialism you have not seen anything yet. Your pension and mine will be worthless.
You are another dumb ass. Aren’t you supposed to have grown wiser by age 84?
Haven’t you been paying attention? President Donald Trump is one of our best U.S. Presidents. He has done more in his first year in office than many Presidents combined including President Ronald Reagan. Sure, he may not have been a gifted speaker like President Reagan but his heart was in the right place. What was wrong in MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN? I’m ashamed of you. For a man of 84 yrs, you should know better! He and President Ronald Reagan were two of our best U.S. Presidents these past 40 years.
Martin is absolutely right on about dental care for vets. The current _________in the WH can spend money on the gender crap but they cannot help out Veterans who are in need of medical care. I also agree with Dan and David for I am a disabled vet 20 years. Are we going to be left out of the issues again just like all the other times.. With the immature kids running the WH I am not going to expect anything from them for all the Veterans disabled or not.
So the VA is going to do gender confirmation surgery but myself and hundreds of thousands of Vets aren’t able to have dental done on there teeth because they don’t qualify. As a disabled Vet I find this quite upsetting as I am still fighting the VBA over my mental health issues, diabetes, anemia, and sleep issues. There are times when I feel like myself and thousands of other Vets just don’t matter.
You need to get an attorney to help with your disability claims. Start by asking your VFW representative for help to guide you. My husband did and within a year he became 100% Perm & total.
Good Luck!
I really believe we don’t matter. My teeth are falling out I don’t get enough to pay someone to mow my lawn. Feeling helplessly hopeless.
Do disabled veterans also get the 2.7 increase in pay also?
Will disable vets receive the 2.7 pay increase?
No, we are on a different pay scale. Much lower. 1.2% maybe.