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Navy tries to make IA duty pay


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Navy tries to make IA duty pay
By Mark D. Faram - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Jan 20, 2008 8:52:10 EST

Navy officials want more individual augmentees to be volunteers, not voluntolds, in the coming year. And they’re rolling out some pretty attractive incentives to make it happen.

The ultimate goal — an all-volunteer IA community — should make the duty more predictable for sailors who fear being yanked from ships and squadrons and sent to the war zone.

By summer, officials want 73 percent of the nearly 7,000 existing IA billets to be permanent change-of-station moves. The hope is to get to 100 percent as soon as possible, officials say.

“The real impetus here is to end the personnel churn for sailors and our commands,” said Rear Adm. Edward “Sonny” Masso, head of Navy Personnel Command in Millington, Tenn.

“What we’re doing is trying to make this predictable so you know when you go to shore duty you know you will be there for your full time.”


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/01/navy_iaduty_080120w/
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