Iran accuses the United States of causing the plane crash that took the lives of four of its top military men. It says the U.S. AWACS planes operating in Saudi Arabia sent some sort of signal that jammed the plane’s controls and brought it down. If this doesn’t clinch the AWACS sale, nothing will.
Congress gave the military a pay raise, and it gave the most help where it was most needed—senior sergeants and petty officers, the men who make the services go, and who have been leaving them in droves. They get a boost of 17 per cent (we’re not talking princely sums: $2,130 a month for a sergeant major with a quarter-century of experience). Officers rose 14.3 per cent, recruits rose 10 per cent—probably too much. But the central problem has at last been addressed.
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