The Pentagon has authorized additional hazard pay for US troops in Ukraine, Military Times reported on Thursday.
The news highlights the small US military presence in Ukraine, although it’s unclear how many US troops are there. According to one of the Pentagon documents that was leaked on Discord, there was a total of 29 Department of Defense personnel inside Ukraine as of March 2023.
The number included 14 special operations soldiers. According to the document, there were 97 NATO special operations soldiers in Ukraine at the time. It’s unclear what the NATO special operations forces are doing on the ground.
Other US military personnel inside Ukraine include members of the Marine Security Guard Security Augmentation Unit (MSAU), who are typically deployed for embassy security. There are also officials with the defense attaché and members of the Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC).
In October 2022, the Pentagon said that personnel under the defense attaché and ODC based at the US embassy in Kyiv started conducting “onsite” weapons inspections inside Ukraine.
The Military Times report said that US troops in Ukraine would now earn an extra $7.50 per day, capped at $225 per month, in addition to their base salary and other bonuses. A Pentagon official said US military personnel in Ukraine could get back pay going back to April 2022.
The State Department has also authorized hazard pay for its employees in Ukraine. According to the Discord document, 79 State Department personnel were in the country as of March 2023. The US briefly shuttered its embassy in Kyiv when Russia first invaded but reopened the facility in May 2022.
Besides the military and diplomatic presence in Ukraine, the CIA also has a presence on the ground, according to multiple media reports.
$7.50. That gets you a quarter pounder with fries at an inexpensive McDonald’s.
I agree. Our soldiers’ lives and human parts are cheap. We pay them $7.50 a day more and mention “thank you for your service” on TV. In return, they die for absolutely nothing. “War is a Racket.” – Smedley Butler. (Sarcasm alert)
That wasn’t sarcasm because it was truth.
Sarcasm is coming from me not believing that I live in this universe. Since I’m really not smart and this is not hard even for me to figure out, why am I one of the very few who feel this way? Why doesn’t everybody see what I’m seeing? Others just seem to be living and driving their cars like zombies, while I feel like I live in George Orwell’s 1984.
You are smart and you haven’t shut yourself off from reality.
Plus A Clockwork Orange…………….
Marine Major General Smedley Butler. Recipient of TWO Congressional Medal of Honor. TWO. He was also instrumental in stopping a coup. Where are men like him today???
Notwithstanding of WHY we even have ANY troops in Ukraine… Giving them $7.50 more a day to risk their lives to fight for a war on Russia’s border is the some of the most insane things these neocon ruling class have come up with. Why don’t them risk their OWN lives on the frontlines in Donetsk if they love their war so much instead of some kids they brainwashed in a recruitment office?
Blatantly telling the canon fodder how little they are valued.
The men calling for this are relaxing in their comfortable chairs, in their comfortable office, with their glass of their favorite alcoholic beverage in their hand.
That is a serious admission of involvement. How’s the Pentagon filth gonna dance around and deny the war with the Russian Federation now?
It confirms it – the trouble however is you, me or all of us appear absolutely and utterly powerless to do anything about it.
In the end there’s millions if not billions of us yet only a couple of thousand of them, we can end this tomorrow yet all we need to do is stand up – this means leaving our computer screens.
i will make some signs and we can all get together and wave them
The only sign required comes in the form of the sheer numbers of people out on the streets.
yes, the camel’s nose is now nose, head & torso.
In the past they needed a stupidly obvious false flag operation. We have gotten so much more ridiculously stupid, that I think we are now ready to all die in a nuclear war without even such a false flag operation. Now they don’t need it anymore! At any moment, we’ll all die in a nuclear war without even knowing for what we’re actually dying! (Sarcasm alert)
… the neocon imperialist dream, the millennial ‘3rd Reich’. Where’s the sarcasm?
Never gets…oh you know, NA 😁
Thank you, Gypsy!
According to the Discord leaks, there were 29 US military personnel in Ukraine as of March 2023 – The Military Times report said that US troops in Ukraine would now earn an extra $7.50 per day
make sure to clock in boys.
https://youtu.be/0xsLXuUEqbI
My father earned #133.50 per month in the Middle East, North Africa and the European theater as an Army combat personnel.
Hazard pay for so few?
That’s kind of curious given these few likely enter very hot areas throughout the world to train all sorts of folks.
This sounds more like preperation to pay those who do normal support activities as the Ukrainians turn the cooks and mechanics into fighters and someone will need to come in and make beds while the men fight.
That won’t last long…..
So now we have it there are NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine , time for Putin to take them out before it escalate`s like Vietnam so called 25,000 adviser boots on the ground just in time for the false flag war.
Regardless of the article being true or not; do you want Putin to kill US troops?
you stated before that you served in both Afghanistan and Iraq –
do you suppose that Iraqis wanted uncle sam to kill Iraqi troops?
Do you want Washington to start a war that kills your family and everyone you know?
Look! You’re not the only one that can ask manipulative questions.
We are hoping that troops will not be sent to get killed. But you apparently agree with the US decision to send them to their deaths. Well some of them to their deaths.
“Pentagon Authorizes Hazard Pay for US Troops in Ukraine According to the Discord leaks, there were 29 US military personnel in Ukraine as of March 2023”
Besides embassy staff why are any other American troops on the ground in Ukraine?
The “official” answer was that people were needed to oversee arms shipments because the totally democratic and noncorrupt Ukraine was putting some on the black market.
29 American military personnel to keep track of millions of dollars of equipment? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah that`s how it starts , it began like that in Vietnam finished up with 25,000 when the war started with a false flag .
Ross Perot’s running mate was in F8U aircraft, flying over the supposed site of the bombing of the ship, at the precise moment when it was supposed to have occurred, and he said he did not see nothing going on. Of course, all of the online military sites paint a different picture.
Here we go. This is how we wound up with a full blown affair in Vietnam. A trickle of personnel. Then more. Then much more. Then 58,000 American troops dead, many more maimed. Millions of Vietnamese dead. Just wait until some of the American personnel are captured and paraded. Just to back a GD NAZI infiltrated Kiev.
Bring our troops home. No need to go toe to toe with the Russians…
“It’s unclear what the NATO special operations forces are doing on the ground.”
Oh please!
It’s only a matter of time, when Russia captures bunch of NATO fighters and humiliates them on camera.
Another metric of mission creep in our relentless march toward war with Russia. “Hazard pay” is an euphemism for “combat pay.” That’s what I received when I served as a medical corpsman in Vietnam.
Wow, an extra $7.50 per day! 😂
Don’t spend it all in one place, guys!
Any western soldier (including Americans) who goes anywhere near that frontline is almost guaranteed a swift death by Russian artillery, aviation, drones, tanks, mines or small arms. It’s a slaughterhouse.
That’s why American troops are likely in ‘leadership centers’ or logistics HQs, well behind the front lines. The problem they now face is that Russia – which has always known exactly where all these places are – appears to have decided to destroy these places as well.
The choice is simple – take the extra $7.50 a day (what an insult) and probably die, or go home, leave the US military, never serve the corrupt US givernment again – and live. The smart move is the latter.
I have a sneaking suspicion that some of the Special forces serving in Ukraine as advisors are more then that. Perhaps they had something to do with blowing up the pipeline or partly destroying the bridge in Crimea.A full confrontation with the Russian army and Air Force would not be a favorable happening and will escalate to something no sane person wants.