US troops now getting hazard pay on deployments to Burkina Faso

“Burkina Faso presents our military personnel with threats from violent extremist organizations and mercenary forces that can quickly escalate and spread with little to no warning,” U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif., said in a statement Friday.

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