Changes at Aviano Air Base, Italy, are under review, and a cut-off of military mail privileges was announced last summer in the Phillipines, then delayed.
Benefit packages like annuities, thrift savings plans and health insurance offerings remained popular reasons for people to take and stay in federal jobs.
The decision leaves the possibility open for retirees implicated in high-profile scandals to face punishment, to include sailors involved in the Navy’s “Fat Leonard” scandal and retired Gen. David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer.