New in 2023: Will sailor pay and paperwork problems get better?

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New in 2023: Will sailor pay and paperwork problems get better?
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
 Dec 30, 12:57 PM
Sailors man the rails aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford in June 2021. (Navy)

The Navy’s massive, multiyear initiative to modernize its human resources systems has led to disruptions in sailor pay, benefits and discharge paperwork in recent years as the service seeks to modernize and streamline dozens of very old systems into something resembling a modern 21st-century digital infrastructure.

One day in the future, leaders say that sailors will be able to handle pay and benefits issues from their phone, as easily as they bank today.

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