Once they are called to active duty, Guard and Reserve members often sustain a wage gap between their active duty monthly salary and their higher, pre-mobilization monthly salary. To help alleviate any “differential of more than $50,” reservists can apply for the Reserve Income Replacement Program, which begins on Sept. 1. There’s more info here.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III chaired a China military briefing Oct. 27, part of a bi-weekly series of briefings with senior military commanders about China’s growing threat in the wake of an orbital hypersonics weapon test that elicited public worries from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “What we…