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2013 Imminent Danger Pay

Service members qualify for imminent danger pay, or IDP, of $225 per month if they are on duty outside the U.S. and subject to physical harm or imminent danger due to wartime conditions, terrorism, civil insurrection or civil war. In some locations, IDP is paid only to land-based service members; in others, both land and the airspace above qualify. Certain bodies of water also qualify. In some locations, IDP is paid in addition to Hardship Duty Pay-Location. Locations marked with an asterisk (*) also qualify for combat-zone tax relief benefits. Areas that currently qualify for IDP:

Location Qualifying
Afghanistan* land and airspace
Algeria land
Azerbaijan land
Bahrain* land and airspace
Burundi land
Chad land
Colombia land
Cuba/Guantanamo Bay Detention Facilities land
Democratic Republic of Congo land
Djibouti* land
East Timor land
Egypt land
Eritrea land
Ethiopia land
Greece (20-km radius from center of Athens) land
Haiti land
Indonesia land
Iran land
Iraq* land and airspace
Israel land
Ivory Coast land
Jordan* land
Kenya land
Kosovo* land and airspace
Kuwait* land and airspace
Kyrgyzstan* land
Lebanon land
Liberia land
Libya land and airspace
Malaysia land
Montenegro* land and airspace
Oman* land
Pakistan* land
Philippines* land
Qatar* land and airspace
Rwanda land
Saudi Arabia* land and airspace
Serbia* land and airspace
Somalia* land and airspace
Sudan land and airspace
Syria* land
Tajikistan* land
Tunisia land and airspace
Turkey land
Uganda land
United Arab Emirates* land
Uzbekistan* land
Yemen* land
Adriatic Sea* (combat-zone tax relief only)
Arabian Sea* (north of 10 degrees N latitude, west of 68 degrees E longitude) sea
Gulf of Aden* sea
Gulf of Oman* sea
Mediterranean Sea (area north of Libya and Tunisia coasts to 34 degrees 35'N latitude) sea
Persian Gulf* sea and airspace
Red Sea* sea
Somalia Basin* sea