Officers’ Group Calls for Higher Pay Raise

The Military Officers Association of America, an organization that represents 370,000 past and present officers in all branches of the uniformed services and their families, wants Congress to approve a higher pay raise for all service members in 2010. The MOAA request for a 3.4-percent raise instead of the Obama administration’s proposed 2.9-percent hike would continue the nation’s commitment to restore military pay to comparable levels with that of civilians. Today’s troops continue to pay a residual price in every paycheck because the government inflicted severe pay raise caps on the military throughout the 1980s and ’90s, says Retired Navy Vice Adm. Norb Ryan Jr., MOAA’s president.