Military Compensation Background Papers, Eighth Edition : Department of Defense , July , 2018
Military Compensation Background Papers, Eighth Edition : Department of Defense , July , 2018
From the report:" The organization of the third and subsequent editions of Military Compensation Background Papers: Compensation Elements and Related Manpower Cost Items—Their Purposes and Legislative Backgrounds has been changed from that of the first two editions, in that pays that are functionally similar or that have a common legislative heritage are physically grouped together. 1 This regrouping has had the incidental effect of emphasizing the common concepts and principles, as articulated in Chapter I of this edition, which underlie the various compensation elements and manpower cost items that have been grouped together. In thus regrouping and reorganizing the third and subsequent editions of Military Compensation Background Papers, the various compensation elements and manpower cost items that make up the military compensation system considered as a whole have been subsumed under four major headings identified by Chapters II through V, respectively. Thus, Chapter II covers all forms of “pay” for active and inactive-duty military service; Chapter III covers all forms of post-service compensation, including separation payments as well as retired and retainer pay and other benefits; Chapter IV covers benefits supporting the active- and inactive-duty forces; and Chapter V covers the category of miscellaneous payments to active- and inactive-duty forces that are, for present purposes, referred to as “manpower-related cost items.” Chapter I provides an overview of the military compensation system as a whole, emphasizing the principles and concepts that underlie and inform the system and give it substance and cohesion."
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