{"id":37536,"date":"2013-09-11T11:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37536"},"modified":"2013-09-11T11:12:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:12:32","slug":"your-tricare-surplus-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37536","title":{"rendered":"Your Tricare surplus at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote a few months ago about the Department of Defense raiding the $770 million from our surplus Tricare premiums for other things while they were jacking up our premiums. Well, you&#8217;ll be happy to know that, despite the sequester and the cut backs in spending, your money is going to a good cause &#8211; the DoD is spending $7 billion on wind energy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/09\/09\/military-energy-wind-idUSL2N0H525O20130909\">Reuters<\/a> by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2013\/09\/10\/sequestration-nation-dod-doles-out-7-billion-in-wind-energy-contracts\/\">Hot Air<\/a> (See how I linked to you, Hot Air? You should try it sometime);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Army has picked 17 companies that will be eligible to receive orders for wind energy under an umbrella contract valued at up to $7 billion, the Pentagon said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The companies include many large energy producers including Dominion Energy, a unit of Dominion Resources Inc ; the U.S. unit of Spain&#8217;s Acciona SA ; Duke Energy Corp ; the U.S. unit of France&#8217;s EDF Energies Nouvelles; and the U.S. unit of Spain&#8217;s Iberdrola SA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, that should put a smile on your face when you pay your Tricare premium this month.<br \/>\nThanks to Paul for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote a few months ago about the Department of Defense raiding the $770 million from &hellip; <a title=\"Your Tricare surplus at work\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37536\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your Tricare surplus at work<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}