The term sarcoma comes from a Greek word meaning fleshy growth. Sarcoma arises in the connective tissue of the body. Normal connective tissue include, fat, blood vessels, nerves, bones, muscles, deep skin tissues, and cartilage.arcomas can develop in children and adults. For children under 20 approximately 15 percent of cancer diagnosis are sarcomas. Although rare, there are approximately 14,000 new cases of sarcoma diagnosed each year in the United States.
Pay Grades. An Army major is classified as pay grade O-4. If he retired in 2015 after 20 years, he received 50 percent of his basic pay of $7,430.10, or $3,715.05 per month. At the other extreme, a 4-star general with pay grade O-10 and 40 years service got 100 percent of his basic pay of $19,762.50 per month. These are the initial retirement amounts.
A lieutenant colonel with between 12 and 14 years of service was paid $6,999 a month, or $83,988 a year. The maximum pay for an O-5 was $8,446 a month, or $101,352 a year, earned after 22 years of service. The proposed National Defense Authorization Act for 2013 called for a 1.7 percent across-the-board raise.