Risk and Combat Compensation

August, 2011
IDA document: P-4747
FFRDC: Systems and Analyses Center
Type: Documents
Division: Cost Analysis and Research Division
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Saul Pleeter, Alexander O. Gallo, Brandon R. Gould, Maggie X. Li, Shirley H. Liu, Curtis J. Simon, Carl F. Witschonke, Stanley A. Horowitz See more authors
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Risk and Combat Compensation
The principal justification for combat compensation is to recognize military personnel who face significant combat risk. This paper demonstrates that there is only a weak relationship between the risk faced by personnel and the combat-related compensation they receive. It describes the elements of combat compensation, the most important being Hostile Fire Pay/Imminent Danger Pay (HFP/IDP) and the Combat Zone Tax Exclusion (CZTE),