The Servicemember’s Group Life Insurance program now covers traumatic injuries—called TSGLI. It automatically provides coverage up to $100,000 for anyone insured by SGLI for a flat monthly premium of $1. It’s also retroactive, by Public Law 109-13, for “qualifying losses” suffered between Oct. 7, 2001 and Dec. 1, 2005, if they were due to injury from service in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…