Air Force Might Cut Pay for Surge

Week of April 30, 2007

The Air Force's top officer said that if nearly $1 billion in personnel funds taken from the service to pay for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan isn't restored by the end of the summer, Airmen and civilian employees might not get their pay. Due to a congressional delay in approving a wartime supplemental funding bill this year, the Pentagon pulled about $880 million from the Air Force's personnel accounts to make up for a shortfall it warned lawmakers would come in mid-April.

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