{"id":68022,"date":"2018-03-08T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/08\/dod-approves-danger-pay-for-niger-mali-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:28:12","slug":"dod-approves-danger-pay-for-niger-mali-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2018\/03\/08\/dod-approves-danger-pay-for-niger-mali-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"DoD approves danger pay for Niger, Mali, Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Service members deployed to Niger<\/a>, Mali and northern Cameroon<\/a> qualify to receive imminent danger pay<\/a>\/hostile fire pay, retroactive to June 7, 2017, Defense Department announced Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The retroactive date will allow the families of Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, Sgt. La David Johnson and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wrigh<\/a>t to collect an additional $225 a month for the time the soldiers were assigned there<\/a>. The four soldiers were killed in an October 2017 ambush<\/a> that is still the subject of an ongoing investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imminent danger pay is a flat monthly payment of $225 to troops on duty outside the U.S. and subject to physical harm or imminent danger due to wartime conditions, terrorism, civil insurrection or civil war.
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Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, from left, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson, Sgt. La David Johnson and Staff Sgt. Dustin Wright were killed in Niger when a joint patrol of American and Niger forces was ambushed on Oct. 4. (U.S. Army via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, the head of U.S. Africa Command, told House lawmakers Tuesday that his command had requested imminent danger pay for Niger some time ago, but it had not yet been approved. But DoD spokesman Maj. Sheryll Klinkel said the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness actually approved IDP for the three countries Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDoD policy provides that a service member who is involved in a hostile fire incident will receive hostile fire pay for the month in which the incident occurred, even if the location is not authorized for IDP,\u201d Klinkel said. \u201cService members may not concurrently receive hostile fire pay and IDP for the same month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Army posthumously authorized hostile fire pay for the four soldiers killed in October 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t