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The Loophole
Congress established a high-deployment allowance for servicemembers exceeding deployment thresholds. However, the Navy's implementation limits eligibility due to a regulation that focuses on consecutive deployment days, ignoring total aggregate time. As…
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The Government Has Been Counting the Wrong Days
Captain Mehdi Akacem, a Navy officer with 27 years of service, audited his PERSTEMPO record, revealing systemic flaws in how the military tracks service members' time away from home. Despite legal requirements for documentation, significant periods of…