 Welcome to All Hands Update, I'm Petty Officer Andrew Johnson. If you get deployed in the future, you can make a little extra each paycheck. A new proposal to pay sailors and marines an extra $17 for each day they are deployed past 220 days is being reviewed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. This means sailors will receive about $500 more each month, for deployments lasting longer than 220 days. Senior Navy and Marine Corps leaders approved the proposal with the intention to compensate sailors and their families for the recent increase in long deployments due to budget sequestration and the high demand for Navy forces. Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Admiral Bill Moran said longer deployments are asking a lot of sailors and their families. Senior leaders are hoping the proposal is approved by mid-September.