BAH is not taxed, so every dollar of BAH goes directly into the service member's pocket. Service members will benefit from improved quality of ousing because of the positive effect that higher BAH will have on housing privatization efforts. In these programs, private developers provide and maintain housing for service members and their family members. Privatization can provide new housing in areas where available housing is limited. Improved BAH increases the income available to private sector developers, facilitating increases in the quantity and quality of privatized housing.
Adequate housing is a core military requirement.
But building and maintaining housing is not a core military competency. It makes good sense to incentivize the private sector to provide the housing we need. Having said that, it is also critically important to maintaining funding for government-owned and operated housing. The aggressive series of exercises they have been participating in with their assignment to Standing Naval Force Mediterranean have finely tuned all their operational and warfare skills. This Force acts as a vanguard for peace by visiting ports in adjacent nations and encouraging friendship, dialogue, and cooperation.