Thousands of Guard and Reserve members need to hustle to meet a Sept. 30 deadline for enrolling in the newly restructured Tricare Reserve Select health care plan. There will be no automatic rollover into the new plan for current Tricare members, according to a Tricare Management Activity release. As of early September, just 15 percent of the 11,000 reservists currently under Tricare had submitted the mandatory request forms to regional contractors.
A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flew from Europe across the Middle East to the Persian Gulf on July 25 in a 32-hour flight, as conflicts continued to roil the area with U.S. troops coming under attack in Iraq and Syria on July 25 and July 26, U.S. officials told…