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Lapse in Appropriations: The most recent appropriations for the Department of War expired at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sept. 30, 2025.
Military personnel will continue in normal duty status, without pay, until such time as a continuing resolution or appropriations are passed by Congress and signed into law. Civilian personnel not engaged in excepted will be placed in a non-work, non-pay status.
For more information please refer to the following link:

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4319360/fy26-lapse-of-appropriations-department-of-the-navy-resources-for-sailors-marin/
 

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200608-N-PL946-1100 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (June 8, 2020) Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (SEAC) Ramon Colon-Lopez speaks to Recruit Training Command (RTC) staff members on the mess decks of the USS Rueben James recruit barracks at RTC. Colon-Lopez visited RTC to meet leadership and observe recruit training operations. More than 35,000 recruits train annually at the Navy's only boot camp. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Spencer Fling/Released)

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Photo by: MC1 Spencer Fling

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Location: GREAT LAKES, Illinois
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