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Publication Date: March 2000
Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
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Research Area: Military and defense
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This report describes the mandatory retirement provisions for certain “non-dual-status†military technicians contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (P.L. 106-65), discusses the stated rationale behind the policy, and quantifies the impact it will likely have on individual technicians. The report also discusses objections to the mandatory retirement provisions and analyzes proposals to repeal or modify this policy. Appendices to this report contain detailed histories of the military technician program, the “dual status†requirement, and congressional efforts to curtail the number of non-dual-status technicians within the technician workforce. This report will be updated as needed.