Schwartz supports pay raise for airmen

By Tyler Hemstreet on October 11, 2010

This from Air Force Times: The Air Force chief of staff stands behind a 1.4 percent pay raise for airmen next year - but says anything more and it will get tougher for the service to do its job.

The service's budget is so stretched that a pay increase bigger than the one requested by President Obama "means we'll do less of something else," Gen. Norton Schwartz told government employees at an Oct. 6 meeting in Washington, D.C.

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