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  • TRICARE service centers to 'go virtual' April 1

    Walk-in service at TRICARE service centers in the United States is ending April 1.TRICARE officials said the change reflects "the always growing number of TRICARE beneficiaries who most often now turn to a laptop or cell phone when they have questions about their health care."TRICARE patients have a

  • Beware of ‘dialing for dollars’

    There's a new scam going around, and if your family name is from South Asia, there's a chance you already know about it. If the scam sounds familiar, that's because it's been around for years, targeting one group, then another. Right now, the people being targeted seem to be from India and Pakistan;

  • Sesame Street friends help military children move

    Children in military families move six to nine times between kindergarten and high school, and a mobile app launched in December can help them cope with leaving a familiar place for the unknown.The Big Moving Adventure app lets children create a Muppet friend to help them through the moving

  • 'Boots to Business' helps troops become entrepreneurs

    When Sandra Gonzales and Tony Turin were enrolled in the Defense Department's Transition GPS course, they found their career calling through an optional entrepreneur track called "Boots to Business."The Transition GPS assists service members with re-entering the civilian sector and offers three

  • Warrior-athletes bring home Sochi gold

    A wounded warrior led Team USA's sled hockey team to a hard-won victory over Russia at the Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, March 15.Former Marine Corps Sgt. Joshua Sweeney, a bilateral amputee, scored a breakaway goal in the second period, cinching the team's 1-0 gold medal triumph in the nail-biting

  • Airman reveals personal resiliency amidst force shaping

    It was 1999 and a young weather officer appeared to have everything going for him: a wife, Linda, two handsome teenage sons whom he adored, J.R. and Ryan, and a promising Air Force career for this prior-enlisted officer.On the surface things appeared to be going well; however, pressure was mounting

  • Airmen must revalidate dependents

    By Dec. 31, every Airman will be required to provide their servicing finance office with documentation for all dependents as part of Air Force audit readiness efforts.This one-time, Air Force-wide recertification process will allow the Air Force to validate Airmen's basic allowance for housing

  • Voluntary application processing continues during force management pause

    Late last week, Air Force officials initiated a strategic pause to all force management programs to fully evaluate potential changes to the timing, composition and eligibility criteria for each program based on budget adjustments and early lessons learned."Complex strategies are rarely perfect from

  • 'Transition GPS' helps troops re-enter civilian world

    Feedback on "Transition GPS," which prepares service members to enter the civilian workforce, indicates it improves on the program it replaced, director of the Defense Department's Transition to Veterans Program office said here March 11.Transition GPS -- for goals, plans and success -- is a

  • Report: Some military consumers not seeing earned protections

    Service members, veterans and their families who complained to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau about financial products or services have recovered more than $1 million, but some military families are not receiving the added consumer protections they have earned, CFPB officials said March

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