{"id":38807,"date":"2013-12-11T06:59:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T11:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38807"},"modified":"2013-12-11T06:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T11:59:24","slug":"defense-budget-near-passage-in-both-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38807","title":{"rendered":"Defense budget near passage in both Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Defense Authorization Act is almost passed in both Houses of Congress according to the link that Pat sent us from Military.com<\/a>. It secured a whopping 1% pay raise for the troops and, the best news is that retirees who were booted from Tricare prime are being given an opportunity to re-enroll;<\/p>\n

Patricia Kime of the Military Times is reporting that the 2014 Defense Act includes a provision to allow the 171,000 military retirees who were kicked off TRICARE Prime last October, a onetime shot at reenrolling.<\/p>\n

The National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 is very close to passing both houses of Congress. Some of the hot button issues of the last year will make it in. Others, like the concern about closing commissaries, were not even addressed in the current NDAA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I remember my workmates complaining that Bush gave us “only” a 3.8% pay raise a few years back, but those same people are strangely silent this year. And, oh, the troops are getting a .5% less raise than retirees and folks getting a disability pension and it’s also a .5% less than inflation.<\/p>\n

I guess the best news is that those retirees will be able to re-enroll in Tricare Prime. When I mentioned that problem to Mitt Romney’s veteran adviser during the election season, he didn’t even know what I was talking about, so I’m glad that the Congress remembered those folks.<\/p>\n

Of course, there still a chance that the White House would veto the defense bill because they’re so set on making veterans pay for the defense operations. We’ll see, won’t we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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