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Last year's defense authorization act directed that not later than nine months after it established the commission, which meant Nov. 1, the secretary of defense "shall transmit" recommendations for modernizing compensation and retirement.
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OK, modernizing compensation. Let's see, we could create a web app for the soldiers, we could create I-phone/tablet apps to allow soldiers to see the status of payroll / retirement / special duty pays, etc.
We could change the current leave policy of "use it or lose it" (limited buyback) to: "unused leave is added to length of service for retirement pay calculations and other length of service requirements," a procedure often followed in the modern state government employment sector.
But I suspect that "modernize" is supposed to mean "cut" "eliminate" "reduce" or some variation thereof.