Talk Back, Soon: The military health system has launched into an online version of talk radio under the sobriquet “Dot-Mil-Docs,” which runs every Thursday according to this May 7 release from the Tricare Management Activity. Apparently the program has been...

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Congress appears poised once again to stop the Bush Administration’s attempt to raise Tricare fees for military retirees. The Senate Armed Services Committee’s markup of the 2009 defense authorization bill restores $1.2 billion to the defense health program, as does...

Second-term Congresswoman Thelma Drake (R-Va.) wants to provide a more permanent solution to end the military to civilian pay gap, despite a growing sentiment that the gap no longer exists. She maintains, “Currently, a servicemember makes 3.4 percent less than...

Congress may be on the road to authorization of pilot programs that would enable some servicemembers to leave the service for perhaps three years and then return with no loss of time or grade. Apparently the idea started in the...