Many U.S. military members are going to have to work a little harder to become immersed in the Italian culture after Navy officials in Naples announced they are once again mandating that all newcomers with dependents live in available base housing.
Federal workers now have a convenient way to calculate their loss in pay if planned furloughs of about 800,000 Defense Department civilians take effect.
The Pentagon on Friday sent two budget items to Congress – one to provide funding for combat operations next year, and another to limit the sting of sequestration this year.
A Department of Defense plan to close military-run schools for as many as five days at the beginning of next school year as part of the DOD budget cuts was met with frustration and resignation by educators and parents alike.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced a sweeping furlough plan Tuesday that will hit well over 90 percent of the Defense Department’s 750,000 U.S. civilian employees squarely in the pocketbook this summer.
A decision by the Department of Defense to keep civilian shipyard workers on the job this summer while other federal employees are being furloughed will not extend to an estimated 1,300 employees stationed at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
The uncertainty surrounding civilian furloughs in the U.S. Department of Defense lingered Wednesday as Fort Gordon employees braced for the next two weeks, when officials said they will be “served” with letters informing them of what days they must stop reporting to work.
About 750 National Nuclear Security Administration-funded civilian employees at Kirtland Air Force Base will be able to avoid planned furloughs, an NNSA official said Wednesday.
“While we have staff located at facilities on KAFB, none of them are being furloughed,” Josh McConaha, director of public affairs for the NNSA, said in an email.
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