Fixing the Military's Broken Incentive System | Restore the Military Podcast (Ep. 3)

Jun 30, 2026
Will Thibeau
Restore the Military Podcast

This is the Restore the Military Podcast, a brand-new show by Restoration of America featuring ROA founder Doug Truax and senior fellow Will Thibeau

Is the military paying its warriors what they're worth? A Pentagon staff officer behind a desk and an infantry platoon leader who took fire yesterday earn the same base pay. In this episode, Doug Truax and Will Thibeau break down the Elite Warrior Incentive Program—a proposed structural overhaul of how the military compensates its combat arms personnel—and why the current pay table sends the wrong message to the people pulling the hardest assignments.

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Will Thibeau is a veteran of the U.S. Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment and serves as Director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life. He comments regularly on defense policy and has twice testified in front of the House of Representatives.

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