You are assigned to a high-cost area in the Continental United States (CONUS). As of this writing, there are 20 such locations (military housing areas, or MHAs) in the U.S.

About 61,000 service members will receive a total of about $51 million in CONUS COLA payments in 2025, significantly more than in 2024, when about 17,000 troops received about $26 million and 2023 ...

The Krewe of Conus was inspired by pranksters who placed an eye-catching, 8-foot-tall replica of a hazard cone in a muffler-scraping depression on Washington Avenue back in April.