When there is no wars going on, Does the ARMY let people go? do they get paid less?

Question

What about when there is a war but your unit or division isnt sent into combat?

do you get paid less?

Does you benifits go away?

Is it longer and harder to get ranks?

even Pvt.-PFC-Cpl.?

What do you do if there is no war?

Answer 1

Train for your unit's rotation.

Answer 2

It's called reduction in force or "rif". After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, we made a hefty reduction in the size of our armed forces. There was also one huge reduction after World War Two. De-mobilization went so quickly then, that we had more folks looking for work than the number of jobs which were available.
The same thing happened after World War One. In the 1930s, Dwight David Eisenhower was a major for over ten years. By 1944 he was a four-star general.
Unless you are placed on the retired list or in the Navy or Marine Corps Fleet Reserve, your military benefits and pay cease when you are discharged. However, you remain eligible for medical, education and other programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Answer 3

If there is not war (that your country is not involved in) you train for the next one.
The only drop in pay is no combat pay.
Everything else is the same more or less.

Incidentally, there's always a war somewhere.

Your budget might get cut during a long period of relative peace and some people may be given a chance for early retirement, but that hasn't happened since the early '90's.

Answer 4

your base pay is never lowered, the more years in service generally the higher you base pay is, though a deployed unit will het extra pay such as Combat pay, Hazardious Duty pay, etc... also being deployed to a combat zone exempts you from Federal income tax.

rank time doesnt change in the Army, (it may be easier deployed depending on casaulties sustained)

your benifits never go away, what you have on your contract is what you get.

most MOS (military occupation specialties) have a non-wartime job (ie finance still fixes your pay and sets up allotments, Cooks still cook) only combat arms dont ahve a peace time job, so we train and train and keep your equipment in repair

most active units have been to combat and all combat arms units (active) have been sent multiple times

Answer 5

you get paid the same "base" pay, you dont get combat pay, you still receive benefits, you get promoted in the same amount of time wether in war or no war, when there is no war, you train for war

Answer 6

There is a RIF. --Reduction in force.


For officers this is bad news, their re- elnlistment is neither asked for or accepted.