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For active duty and retirees primarily with some Vet news

OPINION: Delivering Readiness, The Evolution of TRICARE

While the TRICARE benefit is always evolving, the Mission never does. From day one, the mission is to deliver exceptional medical and dental care to eligible beneficiaries and their families. Choices help you take charge of your own health benefits.  

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https://www.health.mil/News/Articles/2021/07/01/Delivering-Readiness-The-Evolution-of-TRICARE

VA's Military Families Testing New App For "Subletting" Child Care Slots

A new app that streamlines and centralizes parents' ability to temporarily "sublet" military child care spaces is being tested at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont. Kinderspot, as the app is called, is available to all Defense Department families stationed at an Air Force base where the app is available. Right now it's an Air Force program, although two joint bases will start testing it soon whose child development centers serve military members from multiple branches in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. And the concept could expand.

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Female Vets in Congress Decry Proposal to Disband Pentagon's Advisory Panel on Women

A 70-year-old Defense Department panel focused on women's personnel issues that has advocated for expanded opportunities for female service members must be preserved, say the six female veterans currently serving in Congress. The Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) has been suspended temporarily and its membership dissolved as part of a cost and efficiency review of the Defense Department's 42 advisory committees that began in January. "We are the faces of what DACOWITS has meant for women in the military," wrote the lawmakers. "As women veterans in Congress, we know the value of expanding opportunities within the services for women and the value that, in turn, has brought to our Armed Forces."

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More in the full article here:

https://www.votervoice.net/AFSA/newsletters/41123

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