It's not "danger pay", first of all. It's a Hardship and Risk Allowance, paid not only for service in hazardous environments but also for quite safe assignments that happen to be miserably uncomfortable.

And it's not being "cut" -- the rates and standards are being "reviewed".

It's a fact that Operation Attention (training support in military establishments) does not grind out casualties like Operation Athena (combat in Kandahar).