As dwell time – the time troops spend between deployments – gets shorter, the Defense Department is considering financial compensation for those who lose it. The pay would be used to compensate for unexpected short-term redeployments or for extensions of deployments that reduce subsequent dwell time, according to officials. For example, if the goal is to give troops a 1-1 formula of deployment time versus dwell time, a service member who returns from a 1-year deployment and is redeployed after nine months might receive lost dwell-time compensation for three months. Also under consideration is whether to include deployments to non-combat areas overseas or to training bases on U.S. soil. The DoD initiative comes on the heels of a message to all Marines by Gen. James Conway, the new Marine Corps commandant, that the Marines must “right-size our corps to achieve a 1:2 deployment-to-dwell ratio.”