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Not sure.... 2.6% pay increase.... 2.8% cost of living allowance increase... Housing allowance also increased (% depends on locality) Basic Allowance for Sustenance also increased .. and special pay such as hazardous duty pay increased as well.. so maybe for those in the war zone may get close to 10%.. it is definitely not all service members.
Even retirees like myself with 20 yrs service will see a 2.8% increase in our retirement checks (the largest increase in past 9 years)....
What he said is misleading but perhaps for those few, especially special ops folks in Iraq... they may see the 10% but not the military as a whole, for them the increase is closer to 5% overall.
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