Recent Proposals to Change the Traditional Military Retirement System to Mirror the Federal Service Retirement: Eroding Discipline and Civil-Military Relations Through Potentially Unlawful and Certainly Quesetionable Acts
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Kastenberg, Joshua E.
Issue Date
2013
Volume
46
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|In a time of budget tightening and sequestration debates, it should be unsurprising that there are proposals to significantly overhaul the military retirement system in the name of "reform." The last four years has seen increasingly contentious debates in the U.S. Congress on the size and scope of federal expenditures, including the U.S. Department of Defense's personnel costs. On August 2, 2011, the President of the United States signed into law the Budget Control Act of 2011. That law creates uncertainty to the future Department of Defense budgets, including military pay and benefits, as well as the military pension system. It enables the President to preserve military personnel programs, but at the expense of other defense programs...
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46 Creighton L. Rev. 369 (2012-2013)
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Creighton University School of Law