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Summer 2016 • Vol. 40 No. 3

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INSIDE 2 NAUS President’s Message 3 NAUS Mailbox 4 NAUS Legislative Update

10 Key Bills

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NAUS Selfless Service Award

NAUS Briefs: Veterans News

NAUS Briefs: Healthcare News Seniors’ Corner

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28 Memorial Day 32 The 3 Easiest Ways to Leave Your Legacy

33 Contributors 38 SMW 40 Taps

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy has designated a yearlong celebration to commemorate Groton’s centennial anniversary of the Naval Submarine Base and Submarine School. e City of Groton, the Town of Groton, the City of New London, the Town of Ledyard and numerous civic organizations and businesses have come together to celebrate Groton’s 100th anniversary as the Submarine Capital of the World! is celebration goes from October 2015 - October 2016. Go to www.ctsubmarinecentury.com for more information. (pictured): e Virginia-class, fast attack submarine USS California (SSN 781) makes its way up the ames River returning to U.S. Naval Submarine Base New London from deployment Friday Oct. 16, 2015. e California’s return coincides with the 100th anniversary of the first submarines to arrive in Groton.

MajGen Timothy F. Ghormley, USMC (Ret), 3rd Vice Chair Chair-Governance Committee

COL Dan Dennison, USA (Ret), EXCOM Member -

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Sgt Brian J. Griffin, USAF (Ret)

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NAUS thanks all our

members and supporters who used NAUS CapWiz

to contact their Senators.

You helped defeat a provision aimed at

privatizing commissaries.

The Senate voted 70-28

in favor of an amendment to remove the privatization

language from its version

of the fiscal 2017 National

Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.

You can donate by going online to www.NAUS.org or send in the envelope inserted in this issue of your Guardian.

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To all NAUS Members and Supporters, I write to thank all of you for your tremendous support during the 1st Half of 2016, culminating in our annual recognition of Memorial Day. As is our custom both NAUS and SMW presented Memorial Day wreaths at Arlington Cemetery aer the formal commemoration ceremony. Both wreaths were made from roses returned from our members and given in memory of loved ones. Names of those remembered by our members were printed and attached to the wreaths and also appear later in this issue of e Guardian.

NAUS counted 2,343 donors to this appeal with almost 1600 of those donations given in memory of a loved one. Many Members also chose to send donations when returning the roses. With almost $75,000 received we can continue to fight hard to ensure promised benefits do not turn into a burden on those who serve, and have served, our country in uniform.

With that clearly in mind NAUS thanks all our members and supporters who used NAUS CapWiz to contact their Senators. You helped defeat a provision aimed at privatizing commissaries. e Senate voted 70-28 in favor of an amendment to remove the privatization language from its version of the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. Your actions also helped soen proposed TRICARE reforms. ank you for standing strong to ensure that Congress hears our views on earned benefits. We thank all our members and supporters who sent emails and contacted their Senators! Your efforts had direct impact in persuading the Senate to do away with this provision and protect the valuable commissary benefit!

Finally, but equally important NAUS continues to honor deserving members, and children through our annual scholarship program. Since 2010, NAUS has awarded $98,000 in scholarships to applicants seeking support for college-level education. is year we will continue that tradition by awarding 8 – $2,000 scholarships! e Scholarship Committee led by LCDR Sarah Dunsford, NOAA, reviewed over 80 qualified applicants including once again grandchildren of NAUS members. e Committee assessed applicants in scholarship, athletics, extra-curricular activities, and community outreach. e competition was intense as our applicants demonstrated the highest levels of performance in all areas.

With that I am pleased to announce our 2016 NAUS Scholars: • Christopher Cunniff - Proud NAUS Parent: Brig Gen Michael, M. Cunniff, NJANG • Courtney Farrow - Proud NAUS Parent: SFC Jackie T. Farrow, USA (Ret) • Annelie Herrmann - Proud NAUS Parent: LtCol Melinda W. Herrmann • Elaine Phillips - Proud NAUS Parent: SSgt Amanda R. Phillips, USAF (Vet) • Kai Trepka - Proud NAUS Grandparent: MSgt Robert Enloe, USA (Ret) • Noah Trotter - Proud NAUS Parent: Maj Stephen Trotter, USA • Erin Ward - Proud NAUS Parent: SCPO Jonathan N. Ward, USN • Elizabeth Wong - Proud NAUS Parent: Col Lolo Wong, USAF (Ret) You can read more details about these outstanding young people in this issue of e Guardian.

Semper Fidelis,

omas L. Wilkerson Major General, USMC (Ret)

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We welcome your comments and feedback, send to: NAUS Mailbox, 5535 Hempstead Way, Springfield, VA 22151 or to tcampbell@naus.org.

I recently received my copy of the 2015 NAUS Member Directory. Very nicely done!

I especially like that it’s a hardcover publication, since it’s a reference that will be on my shelf for years.

Well organized and useful.

LTC Peter J. Mueller, USA (Ret.) Colorado Springs, CO

It is good to know that, despite all the negative comments that are spread across the Internet, there is some sense of financial responsibility in Congress.

Dwight Purdy

Facebook response to post “House Again Freezes its Pay”

Why is military Addresses not available I use FPO AE. I use TRICARE and can’t afford an annual fee.

Curtis Acton

Web response to article “Reject TRICARE Fee Increases”

NAUS NOTE: Mr. Acton - FPO and APO addresses were excluded from the mail-order program as many if not most of the countries where those addresses are used, have laws in regard to mailing of drugs that are very different from those in the US. Too much red tape involved!

Mike Plumer - Deputy Legislative Director/Veterans Affairs - NAUS

Considering TFL on the medicare side already requires a monthly fee… and medicare is the primary payer insurance wise this is highly stupid…. I was hospitalized 18 months ago – 25k bill… medicare paid all but 200 or so dollars which TFL picked up. And they are considering a fee? I am insulted that I have to pay medicare every month or lose TRICARE… once you qualify for TFL you do not have any choice but to pay medicare or leave TRICARE…. just have to love it.

Joel Krall

Web response to article “Proposed TRICARE for Life Changes”

NAUS NOTE: Mr. Krall - The current proposals both in the House and Senate do not mention any fees for TFL. We will watch and see if they change their minds. We agree with you that the fee we retirees have to pay, Medicare Part B, to be in TFL is not fair. To even imply that another 3rd fee for TFL is a possibility is something that we oppose and will work to eliminate if enacted.

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legislative

update

by Rick Jones, Legislative Director, & Mike Plumer, Deputy Legislative Director TRICARE

At press time, the House and Senate have under consideration the most important matter either chamber will discuss, namely setting policy to provide for the common defense of the American people.

Clearly our men and women who protect the nation need to be prepared and ready to meet the many different threats and challenges around the globe. We ask a lot from our men and women in uniform, and they must be ready to face the growing threats to our Nation. Readiness means having the right number of people for a mission, with the appropriate training, proper equipment and support required to carry out their mission and return home from the fight.

For 54 consecutive years, the House and Senate have fulfilled their duty of producing the National Defense Authorization Act. The legislation authorizes the necessary funding and provides authorities for our

commitment to national security and the men and women who serve.

The NDAA is a must-pass bill, an annual law that ensures all our military systems—air, land, water, and space—are authorized and ready to meet the requirements of our force.

As in the past, there are differences between the House bill (H.R. 4909) and the Senate bill (S. 2943).

These matters, such as troop end-strengths, pay and benefits, military health care, commissary reform and a number of other issue areas, will have to be ironed out in order to strike a final, unified, bipartisan measure and signed into law.

Let’s take a look at some

Legislative Director Rick Jones meets with Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) to discuss the administration’s proposal to increase TRICARE fees for military retirees under age 65. Rep. Lamborn said the Pentagon plan on fee increases was too steep to be acceptable. Lamborn is a senior member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee and the Armed Services Committee. Rick is working with the member and other key lawmakers to urge caution in efforts to enact major military health-system reform legislation.

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of those differences, starting with TRICARE, the health care program dedicated to provide the medical care needs of the members of the U.S. Department of Defense, retirees, their family members and dependents.

House: TRICARE Reform Proposal

Under the House bill, TRICARE Standard and Extra terminate on Jan. 1, 2018, replaced by TRICARE Preferred, a new self-managed, preferred provider option. TRICARE Prime continues as the managed-care option as the system is currently designed with a sharp increase in fees for certain beneficiaries (see table to the right). TRICARE for Life is unaffected, held harmless, no change.

On behalf of NAUS, Legislative Director Rick Jones bids farewell to assistant secretary of defense for health affairs Dr. Jonathan Woodson. Woodson stepped down as the head of military health care to return to the private sector. Over the period of his more than five years of service, Dr. Woodson continually pressed Congress to raise TRICARE fees every single budget cycle, saying they were needed to improve the overall system.

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The Preferred option (formerly Standard) would establish an annual enrollment fee and replace the percentage payment of present authorized cost with a flat-rate dollar copayment for Active Duty family members and retirees.

For those who join the Uniformed Service on or after Jan. 1, 2018, the participation fee for Active Duty family members would be $310/$600 and retirees $425/$850, respectively for single and family.

For beneficiaries, Active Duty or retired, prior to Jan. 1, 2018, the fee would be $100/$200, but would not, repeat, not go into effect until 1.) a baseline assessment of network adequacy and beneficiaries’ access to care under the TRICARE health care provider network is submitted not later than Sept. 1, 2017; and, 2.) the DoD Comptroller General submits a report, NLT Feb. 1, 2020, ensuring improvement of access, quality of care, and beneficiaries’ satisfaction under TRICARE Preferred.

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These fees would increase annually as currently calculated, by the percentage amount of the annual increase in retired pay.

Under the Senate bill, TRICARE Standard would be replaced by a new self-managed option called TRICARE Choice that would also require users to pay a first-ever enrollment fee.

Increases in annual enrollment fees for TRICARE Choice are phased in over time. The Choice fee for retirees would start at $150/$300 for Individual/Family in 2018 and rise yearly, climbing over five years, to $450/$900 in 2023. For active duty families, Senate Choice would require a deductible for out-of-network providers of $100/$200 for E4 and below and $300/$600 for E5 and above. Copays would also be required, higher for retired than for active duty families, but both groups would make copays, unless using a Military Treatment Facility.

TRICARE Prime would continue as

Senate: TRICARE Reform Proposal

the managed-care option. Fees would increase $350/$700 for Individual/ Family from current levels of $282/$565.

Active duty servicemembers enrolled in TRICARE Prime would pay no enrollment fees for their health care coverage. Also families of active duty servicemembers enrolled in TRICARE Prime would continue to see no enrollment fees for their coverage.

All beneficiaries, including retirees and their families, would continue to receive healthcare services and prescription drugs free of charge in military hospitals and clinics.

The Senate bill proposes a TRICARE Supplemental Option

The Senate bill proposes a TRICARE Supplemental option for eligible beneficiaries who have Other Health Insurance. The beneficiary would pay ½ of the enrollment fee applicable in the retirement category who enrolls in TRICARE Choice. The program would cover costs not otherwise paid by the OHI.

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NAUS Legislative Director Rick Jones recently met with Rep. Joe Wilson at an event on Capitol Hill to discuss TRICARE and related issues important to our members.

The South Carolina Republican serves on the House Armed Services Committee.

NAUS Legislative Director Rick Jones congratulates Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN) on receipt of the Fleet Reserve Association’s (FRA) prestigious Pinnacle Award, presented to recognize outstanding leadership in preserving and enhancing the quality of life for military personnel, retirees, veterans and their families. NAUS works in tandem with FRA as a partner organization to reach shared goals on behalf of America’s servicemembers.

Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-NC) a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, visits with Legislative Director Rick Jones. Rep. Jones is a long-time friend to NAUS and a lawmaker committed to the well-being of our nation's veterans and our men and women in uniformed service.

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The Senate plan also proposes that increases in all TRICARE fees would be indexed for under age 65 retirees and their families. The Senate proposal rejects the Department’s call to index TRICARE fees and copays by the annual increase in the National Health Expenditures index. However, unlike the House, which would base increases on the annual COLA, the Senate pegs increases in line with the Consumer Price Index for Medical Expenses as calculated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, currently running above the current COLA at about three percent.

What’s the Outcome of TRICARE Reform?

Of course, what is important to keep in mind is these bills must be reconciled in order to reach a final fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill. Once Congress comes to decision, it is sent to the President for his signature or veto.

How this will come about is uncertain. No one anticipates that the House will entirely accept the Senate language on healthcare reform, nor does anyone expect the Senate will tie itself with the House bill.

There will be give and take, if lawmakers are to reach a final bill. NAUS will strive over the course of the House-Senate conference to make improvements.

We must ensure that the final decisions do not create unnecessary and unwanted consequences.

As readers recall, our

last Guardian clearly stated that the fiscal 2017 NDAA would be different than those developed over the past decade. Indeed it is. In the past, from 2006 to the present, lawmakers rejected Pentagon plans to steeply increase fees and copays. This year, however, House and Senate policymakers have committed to reform the military healthcare system. Leadership told us that “increases in fees and co-pays will be a necessary part of comprehensive reform.”

Despite DoD pressing Congress to shift more of its costs to those who earned the benefit, one of the bright spots in this year’s House and Senate bills is rejection of the Administration’s TFL proposal. The good news is that Senate and House members reject the administration’s call for new fees on TRICARE for Life (TFL).

Neither proposes a change. Under both bills, TFL is grand-fathered, held harmless and remains as it currently stands.

NAUS applauds Congress for hearing our message on TFL. Representatives and Senators heard us that TFL is working. It is the best healthcare program in America. Military retirees earned their TRICARE for Life benefit.

They depend on these benefits for their health and that of their families.

Its passage is a practical fulfillment of a nation’s promise to its brave men and women who The Guardian Summer 2016

honorably served in the Armed Forces. We are pleased to see lawmakers hold fast on TFL.

Reform Proposals Directed at Commissary System As we go to press, NAUS is working with a number of partner associations to urge Congress proceed with caution on the scope and pace of reforms being considered during deliberations on the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Bill.

As readers know, the Department of Defense has proposed accelerated measures to allow DoD to immediately proceed with implementation of changes to products, pricing and funding mechanisms that have served the system well over the past 30 years.

On the other hand, the House bill offers reforms to the commissary benefit that will, according to Chairman Joe Heck (R-NV), “ensure that the commissaries will remain an integral part of the military lifestyle as well as a good value for shoppers - both active duty and retired,” Ranking Member Susan Davis (D-CA) echoed many of Heck’s remarks and said the reforms will put the commissaries on a sustainable path while protecting the benefit for service members and veterans.

In brief, the House authorizes the Defense Secretary to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to enhance practices across the system to reduce reliance on appropriated funds, “without reducing the benefit to patrons.” e reform package also includes many check points to slow reforms and give Congress 30 days to review changes and stop the process if the shopping benefit appears at risk. e purpose of these reforms, says Chairman Mac ornberry (R-TX), is to put commissaries on a self-sustaining basis, so they can stand on their own and deflect the effort to do away with the benefit by those who wish to privatize the system.

Turning to the Senate reform proposals, the fiscal year 2017 NDAA would direct the Department of Defense to privatize up to five of the 240 base commissaries for two years to assess “the feasibility and advisability” of privatizing the entire system.

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NAUS has written letters of support to Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), and thousands of our supporters have sent messages to back their amendment to delete the privatization “test” until lawmakers have time to study findings of a report, required under last year’s NDAA, due last March, but yet to be completed.

In whole, the House-Senate bills propose a number of new authorities aimed to modernize store operations, which include variable pricing and the introduction of private labeled brands. Reform is clearly in the wind, but how it will take form, however troubling that may be, is yet unclear.

Defense Policy Bill: Base Benefits at Time of Divorce Rather than Retirement Pay e National Association for Uniformed Services (NAUS) is pleased to see the House approve a provision in its fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4909) to amend the 1982 Uniformed Services Former Spouse Protection Act (USFSPA), a law that allows courts to consider treatment of retirement pay and other marital assets in divorce proceedings. e NAUS endorsed provision, sponsored by Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK), would amend the USFSPA to base all prospective awards of military retired pay on the member’s rank and time served at the time of the divorce. At present, many State courts oen allow division increases based on promotions and longevity pay increases earned aer a divorce, which, under the Russell amendment, would be the sole property of the service member who earned them.

We are equally pleased to see the Senate version (S.2943) contain a similar provision to modify the division of military retired pay in a divorce decree, which indicates almost certain passage in the final bill. As a matter of equity, the Senate version provides a spousal share of the retired pay computed on the retired pay as adjusted by the annual increases in military pay.

NAUS remains concerned that even with this potential change, however it finally comes out, the

Senate Aims for BAH Reform As we go to press, Senators are taking a close look at a proposal in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s dra of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2017 (NDAA) to change the Basic Allowance for Housing system (BAH). e SASC version of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act would curb the military’s BAH, for new entrants beginning in 2018, by only covering what they actually pay in rent. It would end payments made to service members who reside together as either military couples or roommates. A second proposal would cap payments to either what an individual pays for rent or set the payment at the local BAH maximum based on rank and dependency status.

At press time, Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have already introduced amendments to strike the provision. It is unclear whether the full chamber will approve the language when it completes its defense authorization bill and goes to conference with the House to agree on a final bill.

NAUS notes that the Senate proposed similar changes to BAH in last year’s NDAA, none of which survived conference with the House.

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Uniformed Services Former Spouse Protection Act (USFSPA) would continue to cause detrimental impact on those who currently serve and have served their country. ough it is a positive step, there is more to accomplish in order to balance the division of property.

NAUS favors an approach to rebalance the USFSPA to address some of the inequities with this law and in particular, to attempt to make it fairer for all parties. With regard to the House and Senate provisions under consideration, both are prospective only and would not affect existing divorce settlements. e USFSPA (codified at 10 U.S.C. § 1408), passed by Congress in direct response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision of McCarty v. McCarty, 453 U.S. 210 (1981), allows States to consider military retirement pay (MRP) to be property for the purpose of division of marital property in a divorce.

Since passage in 1982, the States have inconsistently applied the USFSPA in military divorce actions, oen resulting in severe financial crises for service personnel including retired disabled service members and female veterans with dependents.

At a minimum, NAUS believes the following actions need to be taken to bring an improved measure of fairness to current law: •Eliminate the “windfall” provision. A military member’s pay level at the time of divorce should be the gauge rather than the final pay grade.

•Eliminate the “for life” provision. All other government programs end division of retired pay upon remarriage of the for-

Senate Appropriators Approve Defense Spending Bill

ese differences between the House and Senate will have to be ironed out and agreement found in order for final passage of a defense funding bill for the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2017, which begins October 1.

While lawmakers say they disallow earmarks, NAUS notes that the Senate measure adds $1 billion to accelerate by three years the start of procurement of a new heavy icebreaker ship, built coincidentally in Appropriations Chairman ad Cochran’s (R-MS) home State.

e Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense approved May 24 a dra fiscal 2017 Pentagon spending bill that would provide $574.6 billion. e measure would comprise $515.9 billion for the base defense budget and $58.6 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations. e total funding recommendation falls within the budget caps in law (PL 114-74) and is about $1.7 billion below President Barack Obama's budget request and approximately $2 billion more than current year spending e bill essentially mirrors the Senate Armed Services Committee policy bill (S. 2943) — and deviates from House policy (H.R. 4909) and spending (H.R. 5293) bills — in that it does not transfer $18 billion to augment base budget programs from the overseas contingency account.

Another difference, the Senate bill funds the President’s requested 1.6 percent pay raise for military and civilian employees.

Although the pay raise is 0.3 percent higher than in 2016, it is 0.5 percent below the House approved pay raise for the new year.

As part of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill, the House approved a NAUS-endorsed provision to expand benefits to veterans who served on Navy ships in waters off the coast of Vietnam. e measure would help those sailors suffering diseases linked to Agent Orange.

An amendment added to the House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs funding bill would require the department to presume these veterans were exposed to the toxic herbicide and provide health care and compensation if they are sick as a result. e House version of Military Construction and Veterans Affairs appropriations bill passed 295-129.

NAUS applauds amendment sponsor Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY). Gibson has consistently pressed for recognition of the servicemembers who may have been exposed to Agent Orange when their ships handled the toxin or used distilled contaminated waters for drinking or bathing.

When the House and Senate agree on

mer spouse.

•Prohibit awarding of any division of pay prior to the retirement of the military member.

•Strict Federal enforcement of the USFSPA protection of Disability Pay. NAUS firmly believes that these are the minimum steps that need to be taken to improve the balance of the USFSPA for all involved.

2017 NDAA Disappointment: SBP/DIC As readers know, NAUS is a staunch supporter of making SBP fairer, more equitable, and more in keeping with the promise of the program to service members and their families. NAUS has long supported legislation to end the offset that is applied to the military Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) due to receipt of Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) for survivors of those who died as a result of serving our country in uniform.

SBP pays a percentage of the deceased service-member’s income, and it comes from the Department of Defense.

DIC is a payment made to widows, their children and some parents who’ve lost a husband, father or son. Widows are entitled to the benefit for the remainder of their lives, unless they remarry.

DIC comes from the Department of Veterans Affairs. e offset, a dollar-for-dollar deduction, is supposedly intended to prevent double dipping from two similar benefit plans.

But the Survivors Benefit Plan and Dependents Indemnity Compensation are provided for different reasons, and the offset leaves many military families with no survivors’ benefits at all.

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House Takes Action to Help Vietnam “Blue Water Navy” Vets

Others receive only the pittance that’s le over aer the offset is deducted.

(Currently, the monthly reduction in SBP equals the DIC compensation, $1,254.19 per month. In many cases, especially in enlisted SBP, the DIC reduction totally eliminates survivor receipt of any benefits under SBP for which the service member paid premiums.)

Instead of ending the offset, the House and Senate provisions in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act authorize an extension of a partial monthly payment, referred to as a special survivor indemnity allowance (SSIA), to all survivor beneficiaries.

With SSIA set to expire next year, both chambers would reauthorize it at a $310-monthly payment, less than a third of the reduction. e House voted to extend it one year, and the Senate would make it permanent at $310.

NAUS awaits the decision of the House-Senate conference agreement on this issue pending the final bill. NAUS has always sought an end of the SBP/DIC offset, and we ask you to work with us to see that all survivors are treated fairly. Let’s wor together to see that it happens, as soon as possible.

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the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans provision, it would allow blue water veterans who served up to 12 miles off-shore in Vietnam presumptive coverage for Agent Orange exposure.

It would enable eligible Vietnam veterans to receive Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits if they suffer from any of the diseases the U.S. government has linked to Agent Orange. e Senate version of the Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations (spending) bill, which passed in late May, unfortunately, does not contain similar language.

To become law, the House and Senate will have to reach agreement on the measure before it become part of the final bill.

Personnel Exposed to Toxins Need Answers NAUS fully supports H.R. 1769 and S. 901, the Toxic Exposure Research Act, and we continue to press for expeditious approval of this significant and important legislation.

Both bills, S. 901 and H.R. 1769, are bipartisan and similarly bicameral. Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Dick Blumenthal of Connecticut are the original co-sponsors in the Senate. Representatives Dan Benishek (MI-1) and Mike Honda (CA-17) authored H.R. 1769 in the House. e Toxic Exposure Research Act would establish within the Department of Veterans Affairs a National Center for research into the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces that are related to their exposure; and will also establish an advisory board for the National Center. e use of toxic agents – dioxin-laced Agent Orange in Southeast Asia; depleted

uranium in the Persian Gulf – and the contamination of upwards of 100,000 troops from a plume that waed over them during the Gulf War have had unforeseen consequences. e children, and grandchildren, of men and women who while serving our nation have been exposed to toxic agents, may very well have been harmed. Health conditions unseen in their families before appear in these offspring.

Veterans have questions; but we don’t have answers. What we need is fair, unbiased research that will provide at least a doorway to the answers. We see this issue as affecting many of the very best of those who have donned the uniform and answered our country’s call.

We have a long way to go to improve care for those suffering from toxic exposure, and NAUS will work with lawmakers to make it happen.

Provide Benefits for Merchant Marine Veterans of WWII Few know that Merchant Mariners were among the first casualties in World War II. Seventeen minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese submarine torpedoed the transport ship SS Cynthis Olson. All thirtythree merchant seamen and two U.S. Army passengers aboard the vessel perished.

In the first months of WWII, the enemy had sunk more than 300 merchant ships off our eastern coastline with approximately 3,600 seamen dead. Before it was over, the Battle of the North Atlantic took the lives of thousands.

Whether in the Pacific or the North Atlantic or any of the great waters cast in war, United States Merchant Mariners served through the most hazardous and dangerous conditions, delivering war supplies to

Legislative director Rick Jones stands with former VA Secretary Tony Principi following a meeting about pending State initiatives that would potentially increase the cost of prescription drugs for veterans, active duty military, their dependents and military retirees.

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battle zones.

At the end of the war, the men and women who had served in the Armed Forces were rightly honored with veterans’ benefits and the G.I. Bill, which provided educational assistance as well as low-interest business, farm and home loans.

Unfortunately, however, the members of the ocean-going United States Merchant Marine, who had served in war zones and suffered huge casualty rates, received no veterans benefits. ere is no dispute that the World War II Merchant Mariner veteran played a critical role in freedom’s victory over totalitarianism. ese courageous men bravely carried out their missions and served their country honorably. Yet unlike other veterans of the Greatest Generation, these veterans never received the wartime benefits President Franklin Roosevelt promised for their service and sacrifice.

H.R. 563, the “Honoring Our WWII Merchant Mariners Act” would complete the long overdue promise and properly recognize Merchant Mariner World War II service. e legislation would finally give the merchant mariners of World War II the belated compensation they so deserve.

As many of these veterans are now well into their 90s, and fewer than five thousand Merchant Mariners who served in World War II are alive, the importance of passing this bill as quickly as possible is clear.

NAUS remains committed to finally give WWII Merchant Mariners the recognition they deserve. ough we can never make up for the years lost, we can fix the oversight.

NAUS Legislative Director Rick Jones recently met Rep. Duncan Hunter. The Californian Republican, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, has asked the U.S. Navy to offer the U.S. Coast Guard support in efforts to build a future new heavy Arctic icebreaker.

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KEY E BILLS IN CONGRESS 113th Congress

Defense S. 103 – (No Cosponsors), Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), 1/7/15 - Referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations. Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, during a funding gap impacting the Armed Forces, to make available to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security in the case of the Coast Guard, out of any amounts in the general fund of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as necessary to continue to provide pay and allowances to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including reserve components, who perform active service during the funding gap. Allows for the provision of such pay and allowances, at the discretion of the Secretary, to: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) civilian personnel providing support to such members, and (2) DOD contractor personnel providing direct support to such members. Defines “funding gap” as any period aer the beginning of a fiscal year for which interim or full-year appropriations for the personnel accounts of the Armed Forces for that fiscal year have not been enacted.

H.R. 124 – (1 Cosponsor), Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), 1/6/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. Redesignate the Department of the Navy as the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.

H.R. 1126 – (10 Cosponsors), Rep. Peter King (R-NY), 2/26/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

Supply Our Soldiers Act of 2015. Directs the Department of Defense to provide for a program under which postal benefits are provided to a member of the Armed Forces who is on active duty and who is either: (1) serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, or another hostile fire area designated as eligible for hazardous duty pay; or (2) hospitalized at a

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roughout the 114th Congress, NAUS will identify and track certain bills that address issues important to our members. e Library of Congress provides online information concerning Congress and the legislative process through a website named THOMAS, located at thomas.loc.gov. is is an easy to use tool to help you track bills in which you are interested but we do not list due to space limitations. THOMAS also provides access to other congressional committees for you to do independent research. e dates in each summary generally denote when the bill was introduced.

military medical facility as a result of such service. Requires the postal benefits to be in the form of coupons, vouchers, or other evidence of credit to use for postal-free mailings. Makes the benefits program applicable during FY2016-FY2021.

S. 1290 – (No Cosponsors), Rep. Mike Rounds (R-SD) – 5/12/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

TRICARE Portability Act of 2015. Direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure that beneficiaries covered under a TRICARE health plan are able to access health care under such health plan in each TRICARE program region.

H.R.1500 - (12 Cosponsors), Rep. John Kline (R-MN), 3/19/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

Ensure that certain TRICARE program beneficiaries may enroll in TRICARE Prime regardless of the location of their residence.

S. 1386 – (2 Cosponsors), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), 5/19/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services. Icebreaker Recapitalization Act. Provide multiyear procurement authority for the procurement of up to six polar icebreakers to be owned and operated by the Coast Guard.

Companion Bill: H.R. 3214 (5 Cosponsors) Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), 7/27/15.

Referred to House Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure; Foreign Affairs.

S. 1463 – (6 Cosponsors), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), 5/26/15 – Referred to Senate Committees on Veterans’ Affairs and the Budget. Amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to modify the distance requirement for expanded availability of hospital care and medical

services for veterans through the use of agreements with non-Department of Veterans Affairs entities.

S. 1611 – (5 Cosponsors), Sen. John une (R-SD), 6/18/15 - Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. Companion Bill: H.R. 1987 – (4 Cosponsors), Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), 4/23/15 – Passed by full House on 5/18/15.

Sent to Senate for further actions.

S. 1628 – (No Cosponsors), Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), 6/18/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services. A bill to preserve the current amount of basic allowance for housing for certain married members of the uniformed services.

S. 1721 – (1 Cosponsor), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), 7/18/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services. Joint Formularies for Veterans Act of 2015 Directs the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to jointly establish: (1) a uniform formulary with respect to systemic pain and psychotropic drugs that are critical for the transition of an individual from receiving health care services furnished by DOD to health care services furnished by VA, and (2) a uniform formulary for DOD and VA that includes all appropriate systemic pain and psychotropic drugs.

Nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit DOD and VA from each maintaining its own formularies.

S. 1766 – (38 Cosponsors), Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), 7/15/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services. Restore Honor to Armed Services Act. Requires appropriate military record correction boards or discharge review boards to review the discharge characterization of any former members of the Armed Forces requesting a review who were discharged because of their sexual orienThe Guardian Summer 2016

tation. Companion Bill: H.R. 3068 – (114 Cosponsors), Rep. Mark Pohan (D-WI), 7/15/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

S. 2403 - (8 Cosponsors), Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), 12/15/15 – Referred to Senate Armed Services Committee. Amend title 10, United States Code, to provide a period for the relocation of spouses and dependents of certain members of the Armed Forces undergoing a permanent change of station in order to ease and facilitate the relocation of military families, and for other purposes.

Companion Bill: H.R. 4200 – (4 Cosponsors), Rep. Christopher Gibson (R-NY), 12/9/15 - Referred to House Armed Services Committee.

H.R. 2053 – (1 Cosponsor), Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), 4/28/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. Military Reserve Survivor Benefit Equity Act. Makes the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity for survivors of members of the reserves who die from an injury or illness incurred or aggravated in the line of duty during inactive duty training the same as the annuity for survivors of members of the regular Armed Forces who die in the line of duty while on active duty.

H.R. 2067 – (24 Cosponsors), Rep Steve Israel (D-NY), 4/28/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. Cold War Service Medal Act. Provide for the award of a military service medal to members of the Armed Forces who served honorably during the Cold War. H.R. 2264 – (55 Cosponsors), Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), 5/12/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. Establish a space-available transportation priority for veterans of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected, permanent disability rated as total.

S. 2814 – (No cosponsors), Sen John McCain (R-AZ), 4/1916 – Referred to Senate Armed Forces Committee. Authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, H.R. 4478 – (1 Cosponsor), Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), 2/4/16 – Referred to House The Guardian Summer 2016

Committee on Armed Services. Dra America’s Daughters Act. Amends the Military Selective Service Act to extend the registration and conscription requirements of the Selective Service System to all U.S. citizens and residents between the ages of 18 and 26. (Currently such provisions apply only to men.)

H.R. 4493 – (No Cosponsors), Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), 2/8/16 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. Extends through FY2018 (at $400 per month) the special survivor indemnity allowance for a surviving or former spouse of a deceased member of the Armed Forces whose annuity under the survivor benefit program is offset by the amount of dependency and indemnity compensation received from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

H.R. 4519 – (10 Cosponsors), Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), 2/10/16 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. Extends through FY2022 (at increasing monthly amounts for each fiscal year) the special survivor indemnity allowance for a surviving or former spouse of a deceased member of the Armed Forces whose annuity under the survivor benefit program is offset by the amount of dependency and indemnity compensation received from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

H.R. 4554 – (34 Cosponsors), Rep. Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), 2/12/16 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. Makes eligible for TRICARE health care benefits certain National Guard members (and dependents) who are performing disaster response duty, if the performance of such a duty immediately follows a period in which the member served on full-time additional National Guard duty.

“Disaster response duty” means duty performed by a member of the National Guard in state status pursuant to an emergency declaration by the state governor (or, for the District of Columbia, by the mayor) in response to a disaster or in preparation for an imminent disaster.

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S. 12 – (29 Cosponsors), Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), 1/6/15 - Referred to Senate Committee on Finance. Hire More Heroes Act of 2015.

Amend the Internal Revenue Code to add a provision to exempt any employee with coverage under a health care program administered by the Department of Defense, including the TRICARE program, or by the Veterans Administration, from classification as an eligible employee of an applicable large employer for purposes of the employer mandate under the Patient

Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide such employees with minimum essential health care coverage.

S. 170 – (11 Cosponsors), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), 1/13/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. CHAMPVA Children’s Care Protection Act. Amend title 38, to increase the maximum age for children eligible for medical care under the CHAMPVA program. Companion Bill: H.R. 218 – (4 Cosponsors), Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL).

S.241 – (2 Cosponsors), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), 1/22/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Military Family Relief Act. Provide for the payment of temporary compensation to a surviving spouse of a veteran upon the death of the veteran.

S. 242 – (2 Cosponsors), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), 1/22/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act. Provide leave to any new Federal employee who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more for purposes of undergoing medical treatment for such disability. 11/05/15.

Became Public Law 115-75.

S. 865 – (16 Cosponsors), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), 3/25/15 – Referred to Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Ruth Moore Act of 2015.

Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in any case in which a veteran claims that a covered mental health condition was incurred in or aggravated by military sexual trauma during active duty, to: (1) accept as sufficient proof of service-connection a diagnosis by a mental health professional together with satisfactory lay or other evidence of such trauma and an opinion by the mental health professional that such condition is related to such trauma if consistent with the circumstances, conditions, or hardships of such service, notwithstanding the fact that there is no official record of such incurrence or aggravation in such service; and (2) resolve every reasonable doubt in favor of the veteran. Allows such service-connection to be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. Includes as a “covered mental health condition” post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, or any other mental health diagnosis that the Secretary 11

determines to be related to military sexual trauma. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress in each of 2016 through 2020 on covered claims submitted. Companion Bill: H.R. 1607 – (31 Cosponsors), Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME), 3/25/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

S. 901 – (48 Cosponsors), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), 4/13/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Establish in the Department of Veterans Affairs a national center for research on the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions of the descendants of veterans exposed to toxic substances during service in the Armed Forces that are related to that exposure, to establish an advisory board on such health conditions. Companion Bill: H.R. 1769 (201 Cosponsors). Rep. Dan Benishek (R-MI) – Referred to House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs and Armed Services.

H.R. 2992 – (263 Cosponsors), Rep. Susan Brooks (R-IN), 7/9/15 – Referred to House Committee on Financial Services.

Merchant Marine of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act. e Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall arrange for the award, on behalf of the Congress, of a single gold medal to the U.S. Merchant Marine of World War II, in recognition of their dedicated and vital service during World War II. S. 1203 – (10 Cosponsors), Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), 5/6/15 – Referred to and hearing held by Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. 21st Century Veterans Benefits Delivery Act. Improve the processing by the Department of Veterans Affairs of claims for benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

S. 1856 – (28 Cosponsors), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), 2/23/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

Department of Veterans Affairs Equitable Employee Accountability Act of 2015. Provide for suspension and removal of employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs for performance or misconduct that is a threat to public health or safety and to improve accountability of employees of the Department, and for other purposes.

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S. 1991 – (No Cosponsors), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), 8/5/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Permanent Department of Veterans Affairs Choice Card Act of 2015. Eliminate the sunset date for the Choice Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to expand eligibility for such program. Companion Bill: H.R. 3183 – (22 Cosponsors), Rep. David Jolly (R-FL), 7/23/15. Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

S. 2437 – (23 Cosponsors), Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), 1/11/16 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Women Airforce Service Pilot Arlington Inurnment Restoration Act of 2016. Directs the Department of the Army to ensure that the cremated remains of persons who served as Women’s Air Forces Service Pilots are eligible for inurnment in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Companion Bill: H.R. 4336 - (191 Cosponsors), Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ), 1/6/16.

S. 2473 - (7 Cosponsors), Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), 1/28/16 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

Express Appeals Act. Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) carry out a five-year pilot program to provide the option of an alternative appeals process to determine appeals of claims for disability compensation more quickly, and (2) inform claimants about such program. Appeals filed under the pilot program are described as “fully developed appeals.”

S. 2493 – (No Cosponsors), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), 2/3/16 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Expand eligibility for hospital care and medical services under section 101 of the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to include veterans who are age 75 or older.

S. 2507 – (No Cosponsors), Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), 02/04/16 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Medal of Honor Surviving Spouses Recognition Act. Requires the payment of a Medal of Honor special pension to the surviving spouse of a deceased Medal of Honor recipient if that person was married to the recipient for: (1) at least one year; or (2) any period of time if a child was born of the marriage, or was born to them before the marriage. e special pension for a living Medal of Honor recipient is increased to $1,299.61 per month.

H.R. 388 – (24 Cosponsors), Rep. Paul

Ruiz (D-CA), 1/14/15 – Referred to House Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

Provide for a lifetime National Recreational Pass for any veteran with a serviceconnected disability.

S. 2554 – (1 Cosponsor), Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), 2/11/16 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the removal or demotion of employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs based on performance or misconduct.

H.R. 366 – (35 Cosponsors), Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), 1/14/15 - Referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Oversight and Government Reform, the Judiciary, and Science, Space, and Technology. Putting Our Veterans Back to Work Act. Reauthorize the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011, to provide assistance to small businesses owned by veterans, to improve enforcement of employment and reemployment rights of members of the uniformed services.

H.R. 280 – (9 Cosponsors), Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL), 1/12/15 - Referred to House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs and Oversight and Government Reform. Authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recoup bonuses and awards paid to employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

H.R. 4298 – (11 Cosponsors), Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) – 12/18/2015, Referred to House Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Direct the Secretary of the Army to place in Arlington National Cemetery a memorial honoring the helicopter pilots and crew members of the Vietnam Era. H.R. 473 – (7 Cosponsors), Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL), 1/22/15 - Referred to House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs, and Oversight and Government Reform. Increasing the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability to Veterans Act. Improve the accountability of employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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H.R. 517 – (1 Cosponsor), Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV), 1/22/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Establish a task force to evaluate the backlog of appeals to claims submitted to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

H.R. 563 – (77 Cosponsors), Rep. Janice Hahn (D-CA), - 1/27/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Honoring Our WWII Merchant Mariners Act. Direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish the Merchant Mariner Equity Compensation Fund to provide benefits to certain individuals who served in the United States merchant marine (including the Army Transport Service and the Naval Transport Service) during World War II. H.R. 454 – (No Cosponsors), Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), 1/21/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. Military Retiree Survivor Comfort Act. Provide for forgiveness of certain overpayments of retired pay paid to deceased retired members of the Armed Forces following their death.

H.R. 593 – (6 Cosponsors), Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), 1/28/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Extend the authorization for the construction of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado, and to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers to manage such construction.

H.R. 607 – (5 Cosponsors), Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA), 1/28/15 - Referred to Committees on Veterans’ Affairs, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce.

Amend the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 to extend the Veterans Retraining Assistance H.R. 800 – (23 Cosponsors). Rep Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), 2/9/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program to provide veterans the option of using an alternative appeals process to more quickly determine claims for disability compensation.

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Program.

H.R. 658 – (13 Cosponsors), Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), 2/2/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to Congress an annual report on the performance of the regional offices of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

H.R. 969 – (323 Cosponsors), Rep. Christopher Gibson (R-NY), 2/13/15 – Referred To House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2015. Includes as part of the Republic of Vietnam its territorial seas for purposes of the presumption of service connection for diseases associated with exposure by veterans to certain herbicide agents while in Vietnam.

Companion Bill: S. 681 – (42 Cosponsors), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), 3/9/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

H.R.1379 – (No Cosponsors) Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL), 3/16/15 – Referred to House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. Authorize the Board of Veterans’ Appeals to develop evidence in appeal cases.

H.R.1475 – (309 Cosponsors), Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX), 3/19/15 – Referred to House Committee on Natural Resources.

Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance Act. Authorizes a Wall of Remembrance as part of the previously authorized Korean War Veterans Memorial to include, in regards to the Korean War: (1) a list by name of members of the U.S. Armed Forces who were killed in action; (2) the number of members who were wounded, listed as missing in action, or prisoners of war; and (3) the number of members of the Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, and the other nations of the United Nations (U.N.) Command who were killed, wounded, missing, or prisoners. Prohibits using any federal funds to construct the memorial.

H.R.1532 - (7 Cosponsors), Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), 3/23/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

Keeping our Promises to Veterans Act.

Amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to modify the distance requirements regarding the eligibility of certain veterans to receive medical care and services from non-Department of Veterans Affairs facilities.

H.R. 1594 - (201 Cosponsors), Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), 3/24/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

Military Surviving Spouses Equity Act. Repeals certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military retired pay or who would be entitled to retired pay except for being under 60 years of age. Prohibits requiring repayment of certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund. Repeals the optional authority of (and instead requires) the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay an annuity to a member’s dependent children when there is no eligible surviving spouse. Directs the Secretary concerned to restore annuity eligibility to a surviving spouse who earlier agreed to transfer such eligibility to a surviving child or children of a member. Companion Bill: S. 979 (28 Cosponsors), Sen. Bill Nelson (R-FL), 3/24/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services.

H.R. 1681 – (6 Cosponsors), Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), 3/26/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. VA Construction, Accountability, and Reform Act. Extend the authorization for the major medical facility project to replace the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers to manage the construction of such project, to transfer the authority to carry out future major medical facility projects of the Department from the Secretary to the Army Corps of Engineers.

H.R. 1899 – (7 Cosponsors), Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), 4/21/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Caregivers Expansion and Improvement Act. Extend to all veterans with a serious service-connected injury eligibility to participate in the family caregiver services program. Companion Bill: S. 657 - (1 Cosponsor), Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL), 3/4/15 – Referred to Senate Subcommittee on Health.

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H.R. 1994 – (98 Cosponsors), Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL), 4/23/15 – Referred to House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs and Oversight and Government Reform. VA Accountability Act of 2015. Authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to remove or demote a VA employee based on performance or misconduct. Companion Bill: S. 1082 (20 Cosponsors), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), 4/23/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

H.R. 2531 – (25 Cosponsors), Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), 5/21/15 - Referred to House Subcommittee 6/15/15. ACES Act of 2015.

Amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to deem any member of the Armed Forces who died between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2005, to have died on January 1, 2006, in order to make that member’s surviving spouse eligible for the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry scholarship.

(Surviving spouses of service members who die in the line of duty aer September 11, 2001, are eligible for such assistance until the earlier of the date they remarry or the date that is 15 years aer the military spouse’s death.)

A surviving spouse of a member of the Armed Forces who died between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2005, who elected before enactment of this Act to receive educational benefits under the Survivors and Dependents Educational Assistance program or the Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Frye program may revoke such choice. (Such an election is currently irrevocable.)

H.R. 2662 – (13 Cosponsors), Rep Trent Franks (R-AZ), - 6/4/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

Fallen Heroes Family Assistance Act. e Secretary of the military department concerned is required to provide transportation for the next of kin to attend the transfer ceremony of a member of the U.S. Armed Forces who dies overseas in the line of duty in a combat or humanitarian relief operation or in combat zone designated by the Secretary of Defense.

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Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), 7/9/15 – Referred to House Committee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. Prohibits the Confederate battle flag’s display in any national cemetery under the control of the National Cemetery Administration.

H.R. 3139 – (50 Cosponsors), Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), 7/21/15 – Referred to House Committee on Armed Services. Securing Military Personnel Response Firearm Initiative Act or SEMPER FI Act. Directs the Secretary concerned to authorize an eligible member of the Armed Forces assigned to an Armed Forces recruitment center to carry a service-issue sidearm as a personal- or force-protection measure while on duty at the recruiting center, notwithstanding any federal, state, or local law or Department of Defense policy to the contrary.

In lieu of authorizing eligible members of the Armed Forces to carry a service-issue sidearm, or in addition, the Secretary concerned may implement additional security measures for Armed Forces recruitment centers, including improved structural security measures. is Act shall not be interpreted to grant any member of the Armed Forces the authority to conduct civilian law enforcement functions within U.S. territory.

H.R. 3423 – (55 Cosponsors), Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN), 7/29/15 – Referred to House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. Agent Orange Extension Act of 2015. is bill extends for two years the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) presumption of service connection for diseases associated with exposure to certain herbicides, including Agent Orange, with respect to veterans who served in the Republic of Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975. e Agent Orange Act of 1991 is amended to extend for two years the authority of the VA to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate the scientific evidence regarding associations between diseases and exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in herbicides, including the association between exposure to a herbicide used in U.S. and allied military operations in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era and each disease suspected to be associated with such exposure.

S. 2331 – (1 Cosponsor), Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), 11/19/15 – Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. Amend the Service members Civil Relief Act to make invalid and unenforceable predispute arbitration agreements with respect to controversies arising

under provisions of such Act and to preserve the rights of service members to bring class actions under such Act. H.R. 4138 – (7 Cosponsors), Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL), 12/1/15, Referred to House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs and Oversight and Government Reform. Authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recoup relocation expenses paid to or on behalf of employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Social Security

S. 20 – (No cosponsors), Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), 1/6/15 – Referred to Senate Committee on the Budget. Social Security Lock-Box Act of 2015.

Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide a point of order against consideration of any: (1) budget resolution that sets forth totals for any fiscal year with respect to the Social Security Trust Funds that are less than the totals of the Social Security Trust Funds for that fiscal year as calculated in accordance with a current services baseline, or (2) spending or tax legislation that would cause any totals to be less than the Funds totals for the covered fiscal year. Makes the point of order described in (2) above inapplicable to Social Security reform legislation. Requires any federal budget submitted by the President that recommends totals for any fiscal year with respect to the Funds that are less than the totals of the Funds for that fiscal year to include a detailed proposal for Social Security reform legislation. Makes this Act inapplicable upon the enactment of such legislation. Defines “Social Security reform legislation” as a bill or joint resolution to save Social Security that specifies that it constitutes reform legislation.

H.R. 589 – (10 Cosponsors), Rep. omas Massie (R-KY), 1/28/15, Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.

Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security benefits.

Pay & Compensation

H.R. 303 – (114 Cosponsors), Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), 1/13/15 – Referred to House Committees on Armed Services and Veterans’ Affairs Retired Pay Restoration Act. Permit additional retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability to receive both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of military service or combat-related

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H.R.333 – (78 Cosponsors), Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA), 1/13/15 – Referred to House Committees on Veterans’ Affairs and Armed Services. Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act. Permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated less than 50 percent to receive concurrent payment of both retired pay and veterans’ disability compensation, to extend eligibility for concurrent receipt to chapter 61 disability retirees with less than 20 years of service.

S. 271 – (23 Cosponsors), Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), 1-27-15 – Referred to Senate Committee on Armed Services. Retired Pay Restoration Act. Permit certain retired members of the uniformed services who have a service-connected disability to receive both disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for their disability and either retired pay by reason of their years of military service or Combat-Related Special Compensation.

H.R. 677 – (1 Cosponsor), Rep. Ralph Lee Abraham (R-LA), 2/3/15, Referred to House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

Provide for annual cost-of-living adjustments to be made automatically by law each year in the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of certain service-connected disabled veterans.

H.R. 2539 - (12 Cosponsors), Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA), 5/21/15 – Referred to House Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. Provide for an increase in the amount of monthly dependency and indemnity compensation payable to surviving spouses by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

H.R. 3074 – (15 Cosponsors), Rep. John Duncan (R-TN), 7/15/15 – Referred to House Committee on Education and the Workforce. CPI for Seniors Act of 2015. is bill directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish a monthly index, to be known as the Consumer Price Index for Seniors, that indicates monthly changes in expenditures for consumption that are typical for individuals in the United States who are 62 years of age or older.

H.R. 3351 – (31 Cosponsors), Rep. Michael Honda (D-CA), 5/29/15 –Referred to House Committees on Veteran’s Affairs; Ways and Means; Oversight and Government Reform; Armed Services. Provide for cost-of-living increases for certain Federal benefits programs based on increases in the Consumer Price Index for the elderly.

Flag Amendment

H.J. Res. 9 - (39 Cosponsors), Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR), 1/6/15 Referred to House Committee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States giving Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States. Companion Bill: S.J.Res. 21- (8 Cosponsors), Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), 7/30/15 – Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee.

2016 NAUS Selfless Service Awards

The Association sponsors the NAUS Selfless Service Award at several of the nation’s commissioning and other Service schools every year. The award recognizes graduates for their outstanding volunteer service to the community during their course of instruction. This year, NAUS Selfless Service Awards were presented at ceremonies honoring graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences School of Medicine and Graduate School of Nursing (These awards have been named in honor and memory of Vice Admiral James Zimble), and the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy.

USUHS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ADMIRAL ZIMBLE SELFLESS SERVICE AWARDEE:

USUHS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ADMIRAL ZIMBLE SELFLESS SERVICE AWARDEE:

with NAUS President MajGen Tom Wilkerson, USMC (Ret)

with NAUS President MajGen Tom Wilkerson, USMC (Ret)

2LT Rebecca Arnold, MS, USA

2LT Joshua Krieger, MS, USA

COAST GUARD ACADEMY AWARDEE:

Cadet 1/c Andrew Constant (l) with NAUS Regional Vice President, CT-1 Chapter President and Board of Director member MCPO Paul F. Dillon, USN (Ret) (r).

(not pictured) USUHS DANIEL K. INOUYE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NURSING ADMIRAL ZIMBLE SELFLESS SERVICE AWARDEE:

Lt Col Jacqueline Killian, USAF

U.S. ARMY SERGEANTS MAJOR ACADEMY AWARDEE: Sergeant Major Anazia Andrus-Sam, USA

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VA Opposes Expanding Choice Program At a recent Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson said the Department of Veterans Affairs opposes efforts to expand the Veterans Choice program and instead wants permission from Congress to roll several private care programs into the Choice benefit, according to the Military Times.

“If veterans who currently do not use the VA health care system begin to seek community care through the Choice program, VA will have to divert resources from … internal VA care, dramatically undercutting our ability to provide care tailored to the unique needs of veterans,” Gibson said.

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has proposed a bill that would make the Choice program permanent, which is set to expire next year. It would allow any veteran who uses VA health services to use the program. e current program only lets veterans get care at a private health facility if they live more than 40 miles from a VA facility or have to wait more than a month for an appointment. It also would require VA to expand pharmacy hours and let veterans be seen at commercial walkin clinics without preauthorization or a co-payment.

McCain said the legislation is needed because some doctors are refusing to see veterans under the Choice program, knowing it has an expiration date.

“I’ve heard testimony from a number of veterans who have sat in the ER for 14 hours without being seen. Veterans would just like to see a provider on the same day. is legislation would do that,” McCain said.

Veterans groups that testified, including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Disabled American Veterans and American Legion, also said they oppose McCain’s bill, adding they believe issues must be fixed with the current program before it is expanded.

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VETERANS NEWS massive cost overruns at a VA medical center under construction outside Denver, the agency has said. e executives who made the decisions that caused the price to swell to $1.7 billion have already le department, the VA said in announcing the long-awaited results of an internal review. e VA said last year that three other executives were transferred or demoted.

A separate investigation by the VA’s inspector general is still underway. e decision angered members of Congress who have demanded for months that the executives responsible be fired. “ere’s going to be a billion dollars wasted on this hospital that could have gone to veterans’ health care,” said Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) whose district includes the site. e facility’s final cost will be nearly times the amount estimated in 2014. It’s expected to be finished in January 2018.

When Congress reluctantly approved additional spending in September to complete the hospital, it stripped the VA of the authority to manage large construction projects in the future and turned it over to the Army Corps of Engineers.

VA officials have repeatedly said federal personnel rules controlled what action they could take against executives. ey also said they had no legal authority to stop employees from retiring amid the internal review.

Coffman said the department should have at least tried.

“I think they use that system, the personnel system, to hide behind when it’s convenient to do so,” he said.

Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, and Cory Gardner, a Republican, also condemned the decision.

Bennet called it an abdication of responsibility.

“It’s incomprehensible that the VA concluded no further personnel action was necessary to hold these individuals accountable,” he said.

Gardner said the VA’s decision makes it appear that “federal employment comes with a get-out-of-jail-free card.”

At Least 7 VA Medical Facilities Falsified Wait Times USA Today reports that findings from the VA Inspector General’s report about VA supervisors instructing staff to falsify patient wait times at Veterans Affairs medical facilities in at least seven States to show they met performance measures. e USA Today article reports on the wide-spread scheduling manipulation was throughout the VA in 2014. It said the manipulations gave the false impression that wait times at facilities in Arkansas, California, Delaware, Illinois, New York, Texas and Vermont met agency targets. e article is based on 70 reports released following a Freedom of Information Act request from USA Today. About half of the 70 reports are from investigations that were completed more than a year ago.

Investigations launched by the inspector general into more than 100 facilities aer the Phoenix scandal found that manipulations had been going on in some cases for as long as a decade.

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But VA whistle-blowers say schedulers still are manipulating wait times. Shea Wilkes, co-director of a group of more than 40 whistle-blowers from VA medical facilities in more than a dozen States, said the group continues to hear about it from employees across the country who are scared to come forward.

“Until the VA decides it truly wants to change its corrupt and poor culture, those who work on the front lines and possess the true knowledge relating to the VA’s continued data manipulation will remain quiet and in hiding because of fear of workplace harassment and retaliation,” said Wilkes, a social worker at the VA Medical Center in Shreveport, LA.

VETERANS NEWS (2) at the top of the page under the eBenefits logo, hover your mouse over the “Manage” tab. In the dropdown that appears below it, click on “Documents and Records;” (3) in the le column on the following page, click on “VA Letters;” (4) at the bottom of the following page, click on “Veteran Proof of Service;" and (5) print.

Florida Tries to Attract Veterans e State of Florida has launched an initiative to attract veterans from other States, especially young ones. According to the state-formed website VeteransFlorida.org, here are several reasons why veterans will like Florida; (1) there are “no taxes on personal income, military pensions, inheritance, gis, or intangible property” for vets; (2) every Florida resident receives $25,000 homestead property tax exemption with additional breaks for disabled veterans; (3) thanks to Florida’s GI Bill, the state gives in-state tuition rates to all veterans, spouses and dependents of veterans; (4) free tuition is also an option for those who have received the Purple Heart or several other combat decorations. For more information, visit the Veterans Florida website at www.veteransflorida.org

Congressional Gold Medal

e VA has announced that its Beneficiary Fiduciary Field System allows it to identify claim processing errors affecting approximately 14,000 veterans and survivors. ese veterans’ and survivors’ claims were initially filed over many years. e errors concern cases in which VA had proposed that due to disability or age the beneficiary was unable to manage his or her VA benefits without assistance, but did not complete the action by transferring it within VA for appointment of a fiduciary. e Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) has set up a team to immediately review the cases, notify beneficiaries, complete the claim processing steps, and appoint a fiduciary as quickly as possible. For more information, veterans can call 1-888-407-0144.

Leaders of the House and Senate have awarded and presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the Army’s 65th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Borinqueneers (bohr-ehn-kin-EERS’). e unit fought in World War I, World War II and the Korean War. e soldiers of that unit have earned numerous military awards, including a Medal of Honor, about 250 Silver Stars and more than 2,700 Purple Hearts. e unit was first formed as Puerto Rican volunteers, and was redesignated as the 65th Infantry Regiment in 1920.

In a recent ceremony at the Capitol, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other leaders presented regiment members with the award.

Ryan said the members of the regiment “showed us time and time again that courage does not know color — that decency does not pick sides.”

NAUS Regional Vice President Southeast Dennis Freytes was present at the ceremony and received one of the medals for his father who was a member of the unit. Dennis was one of the prime movers in obtaining this honor and NAUS congratulates him on all his hard work and a special thanks from us to the entire 65th Regiment. Well Done!!

Veteran Proof of Service Letter

House Passes Expansion of Agent Orange Benefits

A veteran proof of service letter serves as proof of honorable service in the uniformed services. e letter can be obtained through the upgraded eBenefits premium (free) account access.

A YouTube tutorial on how to obtain this premium access is available on the VA VAntage Point Blog, http://1.usa.gov/ 1QebyNj. Aer upgrading to an eBenefits premium account, follow these instructions to obtain your letter: (1) Log into your account on the eBenefits homepage, http://1.usa.gov/1ulcqEN;

An amendment added to the House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs funding bill, which passed recently, would require the department to presume these veterans were exposed to the toxic herbicide and provide health care and compensation if they are sick as a result. e initiative still must pass the Senate before it becomes law, but it marks a major step forward for a cause that has languished in Congress and at the VA for years.

VA to Resolve Claim Errors for 14K Vets

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News Briefs “Members from both sides of the aisle have been fighting to make sure these sailors get the health care they need,” said amendment sponsor Rep. Chris Gibson, R-N.Y. “We will never turn our backs on our service men and women.”

Senate Confirms New Army Secretary On May 17, 2016, the Senate confirmed Eric K. Fanning to be the next Secretary of the Army.

President Obama appointed Fanning to be acting Secretary of the Army on Nov. 3, 2015. As Secretary of the Army, he has statutory responsibility for all matters relating to the United States Army: manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems and equipment acquisition, communications, and financial management.

He was previously appointed acting under secretary of the Army and chief management officer (CMO) by President Obama on June 30, 2015. He served as the secretary of the Army’s senior civilian assistant and principal adviser on matters related to the management and operation of the Army, including development and integration of the Army Program and Budget. As Army CMO, he advised the Army secretary on the effective and efficient organization of the Army’s business operations and initiatives for the business transformation of the Army.

TBI? Get Your Eyes Checked e Defense Health Agency reports that concussion can cause changes to vision that are sometimes overlooked during an initial medical evaluation.

Vision experts stress that eye exams should be part of the diagnosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to Felix Barker, associate director of research for the Vision Center of Excellence in Bethesda, Maryland.

Because a patient’s vision may not be affected at first, and issues such as bumping into objects or having double vision may seem subtle, providers and patients may not realize vision is a problem.

“Undiagnosed, such ‘invisible’ eye problems can interfere with near tasks such as reading, which, in turn, can be confused with TBI issues, such as cognitive dysfunction,” Barker said.

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Patients with moderate or severe TBI may have more serious vision injuries and may TBI may experience central vision loss or loss of half of their visual field due to direct brain trauma.

In these cases, treatment may not restore vision back to what it was before the TBI. However, rehabilitation can help patients return to daily activities. Rehab specialists should work with eye care providers to support these individuals. e Vision Center of Excellence website, vce.health.mil, has information for service members, families and health care providers to help recovery aer an eye injury.

New TRICARE Reimbursement Rates for ABA Services TRICARE announced new reimbursement rates effective April 1, 2016, for applied behavior analysis (ABA) services, which are provided under the Autism Care Demonstration (ACD).

TRICARE’s ABA coverage and benefits are not changing. e new provider rates align ABA with all other TRICARE rates, ensuring the rates are reviewed and appropriately adjusted each year.

Rates were determined using two studies and included input from providers and advocates in the autism community.

McBroom explained the rates are based on extensive research and evaluation, and will be annually reviewed, using three factors: e national Medicaid reimbursement rates; e Medicare locality factors that account for the cost of living in 89 current and 14 newly designated geographic areas; and, the calculated National Rate.

Approximately 23,500 approved providers are available nationwide for TRICARE’s approximately 10,500 beneficiaries currently receiving ABA services under the ACD. e new calculation process ensures the rates are reviewed each year and not frozen for another seven years.

TRICARE officials recognize that unrelated to payment rates, a handful of geographic locations have fewer providers than desired and this presents a challenge. e ABA provider network is closely monitored and more than 700 new providers were recruited into the ACD in recent months.

DoD Pondering Options for Medical Personnel To Maintain Medical Proficiency Military Health System (MHS) leaders are evaluating a wideranging set of options so that medical personnel can practice their skills to maintain what is known as clinical currency.

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“Recapturing care into MTFs is a strategic priority,” said Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, Director of the Defense Health Agency. Bono explained that the recapture efforts help provide military surgeons with an active clinical practice to sustain skills, offers superb care to patients, and lowers costs for the entire system by more efficiently using military hospitals and clinics.

Bono said that in addition to recapture, she and other MHS leaders are looking at a variety of options to help ensure surgeons have access to clinically complex care. Options include greater sharing of patients between Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs’ facilities, as well as increased partnerships between military and civilian hospitals.

Bono also discussed the MHS journey toward a high reliability organization, emphasizing the need for greater internal and external transparency – where patients and providers can more easily access information already available – to drive improvement system-wide. She added that transparency is also a critical piece of ongoing efforts to modernize TRICARE. “Transparency isn’t just a nice buzzword,” she said. “e Secretary of Defense demanded it, our patients expect it, and there’s a reason why leading high reliability organizations embody it. It fosters a culture of continuous improvement.”

First MTF Accredited for Radiation Oncology Fort Belvoir Community Hospital recently became the first military treatment facility to receive accreditation in radiation oncology by the American College of Radiology.

Radiation therapy within the Oncology field involves the careful use of high-energy radiation to treat cancer. e accreditation process, which saw an impartial peer review and evaluation of patient care, staff, equipment, and randomly selected treatment planning and records, ensures Belvoir Hospital is practicing the highest level of quality and patient safety.

By electively obtaining ACR accreditation, the department is able to demonstrate to patients that commitment to providing the best patient care and image quality possible, said John Pacyniak, PhD, lead physicist in the Belvoir Hospital Radiation Oncology clinic. “e accreditation team, which consisted of an outside physician, administrative member and physicist, expressed to us that they were impressed by the fact that all our records and communications are electronic, meaning patients don’t have to bring a hard copy of their folder to each treatment,” said Pacyniak. is allows for streamlined care through the various planning processes, he added. “e average time it takes a facility to receive official accreditation aer being reviewed is six to eight weeks,” said Pacyniak. “We received ours in 10 days, which I think truly signifies we are doing the right things.”

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Work Progressing on PATH Act The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a mark-up Wednesday to consider the PATH Act, sponsored by Senators Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) and Michael Bennet (D-CO). is legislation would create a new drug approval pathway to streamline access, bolster innovation, and encourage development of potentially lifesaving antibiotic drugs for patients.

In advance of the Senate markup, NAUS, together with a number of other military and veterans advocacy groups, sent a letter supporting action on the PATH Act to members of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

NAUS is pleased to see this bill move forward. It will help in the development of new antibiotics for military service members and seriously ill patients with unmet medical needs. e Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 2,000,000 antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year and 23,000 Americans die as a result. Military service members are at particular risk. ey now survive once-deadly combat wounds only to become victims of untreatable, deadly superbugs. Too many of our shipmates and soldiers have died because of these superbugs and, without swi action, more will meet the same fate.

Background “Superbugs”—or bacteria that are substantially resistant or unresponsive to any existing and available antibiotic— are an increasingly urgent public health threat, both at home and abroad. While antibiotic-resistant bacteria kills thousands of Americans each year, less than ten new antibiotics have made it to market since 2000. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is also a significant concern to our troops, affecting more than a third of returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, according to the Department of Defense.

In an effort to address some of the significant regulatory obstacles hindering antibiotic development and patient access to life-saving treatments, the Promise for Antibiotics and erapeutics for Health (PATH) Act would permit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve an antibacterial drug for a limited patient population upon determining that the drug treats a serious or life-threatening condition 19

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and addresses an unmet need. In addition, the bill includes several provisions to guide appropriate use of antibiotics approved under this pathway, such as labeling and promotional material requirements.

If you need more information, please visit the Urgent Care Pilot Program website, http://1.usa.gov/1Vhg6Uq.

MHR Names New Military Health Record System

Under Secretary for Health (Dr.) David J. Shulkin announced the measures the Department of Veterans Affairs is taking to improve veterans’ health care access.

One new initiative, MyVA Access, represents a major shi for VA by putting veterans more in control of how they receive their health care. It is a top priority for VA’s Veterans Health Administration (VHA).

MyVA Access is a declaration from VHA employees to the veterans they care for; it is a call to action and the reaffirmation of the core mission to provide quality care to veterans, and to offer that care as soon as possible to veterans how and where they desire to receive that care. e initiative ensures that the entire VA health care system is engaged in the transformation of VA into a Veteran-centered service organization, incorporating aspirational goals such as same day access to mental health and primary care services for veterans when it is medically necessary.

At present, 34 VA facilities offer same-day appointments, and as a practicing physician, VA is hoping to be able to offer same day appointments when it is medically necessary at all of its medical centers by the end of 2016.

In addition, a new smart phone app, Veteran Appointment Request App, was introduced. is app allows veterans to view, schedule and cancel primary care and mental health appointments as well as track the status of the appointment request and review upcoming appointments. It is currently available in 10 locations and has received positive feedback from the vast majority of veterans using the app. VA expects to make the app available to all veterans by early 2017.

Other efforts underway include a website enhancement that will allow veterans to check wait times in real time where ever they live – this includes new and existing patients and a new, easy-to-use scheduling soware program. e new program is being piloted in 10 sites and is expected to reduce scheduling errors and enhance VA’s ability to measure and track supply, demand and usage.

e new system to transform military health records has an official name. Military Health System (MHS) officials say the new electronic health record (EHR) will be called MHS GENESIS and will launch at the end of calendar year 2016.

To keep pace with medical advances and innovations in technology, the DOD has purchased a new state of the art EHR that will support us in our mission to continue to provide high quality healthcare to our beneficiaries, as well as an agile, responsive system for our healthcare professionals.

DoD Starting Pilot Program for TRICARE Prime e Department of Defense has launched an Urgent Care Pilot Program for TRICARE Prime beneficiaries, which began on May 23, 2016. is program allows Prime enrollees two visits to a network or TRICARE authorized provider without a referral or prior authorization.

Eligible TRICARE Prime beneficiaries include: • Active Duty Family Members (ADFMs) enrolled in TRICARE Prime or TRICARE Prime Remote • Retirees and their family members who are enrolled in Prime within the 50 United States or the District of Columbia • ADSMs enrolled in TRICARE Prime Remote and stationed overseas but traveling stateside Active Duty Service Members (ADSMs) enrolled in TRICARE Prime are not eligible for this program as their care is managed by their Service. is pilot also excludes Uniformed Services Family Health Plan (USFHP) enrollees.

TRICARE Overseas Program (TOP) enrollees can receive an unlimited number of urgent care visits, but only when they are traveling stateside and seeking care. ere are no Point of Service (POS) deductibles or cost shares for these two urgent care visits, but network copayments still apply.

Once you receive urgent care, you must notify your PCM about that care within 24 hours or the first business day aer the urgent care visit. Authorization requirements have not changed for follow up care, specialty care or inpatient care.

When you are not sure of the type of care you need, or you require care outside of standard business hours, call the Nurse Advice Line (NAL) at 1-800-TRICARE (874-2273), Option 1.

If the NAL recommends an urgent care visit, and a referral is submitted, that visit will not count against the two preauthorized visits allowed under the Urgent Care Pilot.

However, if you call the NAL and get a referral to a military hospital or clinic and you go elsewhere for care, that visit will count against your two preauthorized visits.

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Court Says VA Ignored 2010 Law A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims has ruled unanimously that the Department of Veterans Affairs ignored “plain language” of a 2010 statute meant to protect VA-enrolled veterans from out-of-pocket costs when forced to use non-VA emergency medical care. e panel ordered the Board of Veterans’ Appeals to vacate its decision to deny Air Force veteran Richard W. Staab roughly $48,000 in health care costs he was forced to pay following open-heart surgery in December 2010. e board “failed to properly apply the statute and relied on an invalid regulation” to deny Staab’s claim, the court ruled.

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New VA Inspector General Confirmed Michael Missal has been confirmed by the Senate to be the new inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Missal has previously worked as a senior counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and has extensive experience with congressional and federal investigations.

During his confirmation hearing in November, Missal promised to focus on issues of fraud and abuse but also “integrity at VA,” given years of scandals and public missteps by the department.

In-Patient Limits for Psychiatric Care Removed e Defense Health Agency announced that the limits to in-patient psychiatric care have been removed. e in-patient psychiatric hospitalization benefit was limited to 30 days per benefit year for adults and 45 days for children or adolescents. You could request a waiver for additional treatment days if needed. Now however, inpatient mental health hospital services, regardless of length or quantity, may be covered as long as the care is considered medically or psychologically necessary and appropriate. Likewise, the psychiatric partial hospitalization benefit previously had a 60 day per benefit year limitation that could be extended with a waiver. is 60 day limitation has been removed to ensure that beneficiaries receive care for as long as needed.

In addition, the 150 day limit on residential treatment care for beneficiaries under 21 has been removed. Although medical determination is still required, there is no day limit.

If emergency care is required, beneficiaries can get emergency psychiatric care without pre-authorization.

However, you one must get authorization within 72 hours of admission and the 72 hours starts the day aer admission.

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For more information about mental health coverage, visit the TRICARE website, www.tricare.mil.

TRICARE “On The Road” Are you planning to travel soon? Your rules for getting care depend on your TRICARE plan and travel destination.

If you are using Prime and have an emergency, go to the nearest emergency room. Standard and Extra beneficiaries can visit any TRICARE-authorized provider for care, whether stateside or overseas.

If you need dental care and are enrolled in the TRICARE Dental Program, you can visit any licensed dentist for treatment.

TRICARE Retiree Dental Program enrollees can call 1-215942-8226 for dental emergencies. If you are traveling stateside and do not know what to do, call the TRICARE Nurse Advice Line at 1-800-TRICARE, Option 1. Information about all your TRICARE benefits is on the TRICARE website, www.tricare.mil.

Union Objections Appear To Have Changed Senate Bill All of a federal employee union’s objections were removed from a Senate bill designed to help the VA discipline bad employees, making it politically easier for the bill to pass, but indicating it may not be doing the very thing it’s supposed to. e American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) sent a letter April 18 asking taxpayer-funded employees to pressure Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs.

“I strongly urge you to oppose the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs omnibus bill in its current form,” president J. David Cox wrote. “No less than the future of the VA health care system is at stake here.”

He enumerated four accountability measures that caused him to oppose the bill. Days later, Democrats joined Republicans to announce a final version they planned to introduce. A computer analysis showed all four measures had been walked back, while virtually no other changes were made. e result was a VA employment reform bill that backtracked on measures dealing with the vast majority of the workforce, leaving mainly restrictions on Senior Executive Service (SES) members, who represent only one in 1,000 VA employees.

“It’s the career senior executives who are more responsible than anyone for setting the tone of the workplace and maintaining the culture at the VA, and they’re the ones collecting the biggest taxpayer-funded salaries,” said Isakson’s spokeswoman Lauren Gaydos. e original dra said no employee may complete their initial probationary period unless their manager affirmatively signs off on it. But this was changed so the employee will automatically become permanent unless other action is taken. e Government Accountability Office recently said one of the best ways to ensure bad employees are booted from 21

News Briefs government is by not renewing them aer the probation period, but the period oen ends without managers realizing it. e union’s other three complaints were that employees didn’t have enough time to appeal, reprimands wouldn’t be removed from their file quickly enough, and performance reviews could be revised aer the fact.

Isakson quickly allowed all of these to be changed. For example, the dra bill says letters of reprimand could be removed from an employee’s file aer five years, but the final version reduces it to three years.

Even the accountability measures for senior executives are burdened with so many caveats they may have little effect.

Senior executives stand to have their pensions diminished aer resigning to avoid firing only if they are convicted of a felony, have exhausted appeals on the felony, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) determines the felony was sufficiently related to their work, and the VA secretary chooses to avail themselves of the option.

Even then, the disgraced director can appeal this decision to OPM.

New Veterans Job Site If a Labor Department project goes according to plan, veterans might soon find all government agencies’ job resources on a single website.

In May, Labor launched Veterans.gov, which lets veterans search for job postings, locate career centers and perform self-assessments. It’s an attempt to connect disparate employment programs across the federal government. Employers can also post job openings in their own departments directly on the site.

In its first iteration, Veterans.gov is a Web portal linking back to other agencies’ own veteran-focused hiring program sites, including at the departments of Agriculture and Energy.

It’s also part of a broader federal effort to consolidate veteranfocused program information online, simplifying the search process.

“We’re not designing this to be purely an online portal,” said Teresa Gerton, deputy assistant secretary of that Labor’s Veterans Employment Training Service. “Instead, it’s meant to connect veterans with the right people at the agencies interested in hiring them. e department can also use Veterans.gov to promote those agencies developing their own veteran employment programs.”

Getting all those programs to feed into Veterans.gov is more of an outreach challenge than a technical one, Gerton explained. e site could evolve, Gerton said. Her team plans to collect analytics about how many veterans are using various features, including a career interest profile, or a translator tool letting veterans find jobs matching the military skills, to find out which elements are most valuable.

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HEALTHCARE NEWS access to all their online benefits. Months before, VA Secretary Robert McDonald said some of VA’s websites have confusing names -- such as Blue Button, which lets veterans download their own medical records, adding, “If I went to a veteran and said, ‘What’s Blue Button?’ they would have no idea." He added, “What’s wrong with ‘Veterans.gov,’ or ‘Vets.gov’?”

However, Veterans.gov isn’t a VA site -- the Labor Department has owned the domain for years, Gerton said. e new site has little connection to the VA-operated Vets.gov, which has its own similar set of employment content for job seekers, including a resume builder.

New Company Approved As TRICARE Network Provider DermTech, Inc., an emerging diagnostics company focusing on non-invasive gene expression tests for skin cancer and inflammatory diseases, announced it has completed contracts for payment with TRICARE and America’s Choice Provider Network.

Additionally, DermTech announced it has received credentialing approval from UnitedHealthcare for participation as a network provider. TRICARE provides coverage to nearly 9.4 million beneficiaries in the military health system.

ACPN’s multi-specialty network provides access to over 24 million Americans. UnitedHealthcare provides health care access to more than 27.5 million Americans.

VA Starts New Mental Health Telehealth Resource Centers e Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the establishment of five VA Mental Health Telehealth Clinical Resource Centers to provide enhanced mental health access and services to veterans in remote locations.

VA’s Mental Health Telemedicine Clinical Resource Centers will provide veterans, particularly those living in rural areas, with rapid access to mental health services where local barriers exist. is expanded effort will help close the gap in access to mental health care, in particular, in those traditionally underserved communities. e Mental Health Telehealth Clinical Resource Centers will be located in Charleston, South Carolina; Salt Lake City, Utah; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and a consortium of facilities in Boise, Idaho; Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. e fih facility, already operational in West Haven, Conn., is a specialty hub focused on the most severe and complex mental health issues, such as chronic depression and bipolar disorder. e others are expected to be available in the summer, with the priority given to VA medical facilities in urgent need of additional mental health providers.

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News Briefs of Veterans. VA currently services more than 677,000 veterans through telehealth; that amounts to approximately 12 percent of the 5.6 Million Veterans who receive healthcare from the VA.

Telephonic Healthcare Applications at VA Beginning in July, 2016, all veterans will be able to complete applications for VA health care enrollment over the phone. is will eliminate paper applications, which means veterans will be able to get quicker access to medical attention. Also, VA is accelerating the applications of 31,000 combat Veterans who already have paper or online applications in the system.

House Again Freezes Its Pay Too many folks are under the impression that Congress gets yearly pay raises no matter what the COLA. Just so that misinformation can be put to rest, we thought you might like to know the truth. e House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved a fiscal 2017 legislative branch spending bill that would freeze representatives’ pay for the eighth consecutive year.

Rank-and-file members of Congress now receive an annual salary of $174,000; the House Speaker earns $223,500 per year, while the Senate president pro tempore and the majority and minority leaders in both chambers each receive an annual salary of $193,400. e last pay boost members received took effect on Jan. 1, 2009, increasing the annual salary of rank-and-file lawmakers by $4,700 – from $169,300 in 2008 to the current level of $174,000.

We expect the Senate will follow the House lead and vote down any pay increases too.

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Repeal Windfall Elimination Provision, Pass H.R. 711 to End Unfair WEP Provision “Social Security benefits should be based on your real-life contributions, not some arbitrary formula."

A bipartisan bill has been filed in the U.S. House of Representatives to treat all civilian workers, federal employees, firefighters, and police officers who paid into Social Security the same as other American workers. U.S. Representatives Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Richard Neal (D-Massachusetts), senior members of the House Ways & Means Committee, are leading the effort to alter the controversial Social Security provision known as the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP).

“Our bill strengthens the solvency of Social Security while guaranteeing our public servants receive the full benefits they earned when paying into the program,” said Brady. “Those who teach our children and protect and serve us everyday deserve equal treatment when they retire. Social Security benefits should be based on your real-life contributions, not some arbitrary formula.”

“If Americans are going to enjoy their golden years financially secure and comfortable, they must have a sound retirement plan. That is why I have been a strong supporter of the Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act. Our dedicated public employees have paid into Social Security and they are entitled to their full benefits, just like any other worker. I am happy to join with my colleague Congressman Kevin Brady in a bipartisan effort to provide fair and just treatment for our retired public employees,” said Congressman Richard E. Neal.

Brady and Neal introduced H.R. 711, the Equal Treatment for Public Servants Act. It repeals the 1980s era WEP which impacts 1.3 million public servants who earn a pension at work as well as in Social Security. The WEP can dock monthly Social Security benefits as much as $413 a month.

Instead, H.R. 711 bases Social Security on real life earnings and work history.

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The Navy is easing its tattoo policy in a bid to recruit and retain more sailors from the millennial generation, of whom more than 1 in 3 sport body art.

Sailors will be allowed to have neck tattoos, sleeves and even markings behind their ears under the new policy, the most lenient of any military service. Only their heads are off limits under the new policy, which the Navy’s top sailor has called a reality check on the permanent art favored by sailors.

“We just got to the point where we realized we needed to be honest with ourselves and put something in place that

was going to reflect the realities of our country and the needs of our Navy,” Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (AW/NAC) Mike Stevens said in a March 30 interview. “We need to make sure that we’re not missing any opportunities to recruit and retain the best and the brightest because of our policies.”

The new rules, which took effect April 30, will allow sailors to: • Have multiple or large tattoos below the elbow or knee, including the wrists and hands, effectively allowing sleeve tattoos that can be seen even while wearing short sleeve uniforms.

• Have one tattoo on their neck, which includes behind the ear, and it may not exceed 1inch in length or height in either or both directions.

• Sailors with visible tattoos will now be eligible for recruiting duty or leading recruits at boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois. These tough assignments often give sailors a leg up to make rank.

The rules do not change the Navy’s content guidelines that apply to body art “anywhere on the body,” the policy says.

The updated tattoo policy does not apply to Marines, even ones serving at Navy commands, according to a spokesman for Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller. The Marines are easing their tattoo rules but do not allow sleeves, which would be visible with short-sleeved uniforms like PT uniforms.

Navy Updates Couple Assignment Policy

In an effort to improve support for dual military families, the Navy Personnel Command has updated the military couple assignment policy.

Here is what you need to know: (1) the revised policy updates the collocation procedures and makes orders negotiation less cumbersome; (2) changes are being made to existing personnel information technology (IT) systems that will better identify dual military families; (3) If a sailor chooses not to be collocated, they contact their detailer and negotiate appropriate orders; (4) a flag officer review is required when detailers cannot collocate dual-military families; and (5) to keep the system working properly, the Navy requires sailors to keep their records updated, especially if there is a change in marital status.

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Why does the U.S. have 21 generals running its anti-ISIS war? Some simple battlefield math casts the U.S. in some sketchy light, The Daily Beast’s Nancy Youssef reported Thursday. “There are only 5,000 U.S. troops in Iraq—about what a colonel usually commands. But for this ISIS war, as many as 21 generals have been deployed,” coming out to roughly one general for every 416 troops, she writes.

So what’s the U.S. military’s reaction to these numbers? “In a war where there are so many different types of fighters,” defense officials explained, “you need generals to coordinate. Today’s warfighter is more lethal, thanks to improved technology, and therefore needs a commander with the appropriate authority to sign off authority on the use of that power. The intelligence reaching the front lines is so complex, it demands the talents of a one-star general.”

Nevertheless, the issue here may come down to optics. “Having this many generals and flag officers gives the appearance of commitment without the substance of commitment,” Christopher Harmer, a naval analyst at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, said.

New DHA Senior Enlisted Advisor

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced that Army Command SGM Robert Luciano became the senior enlisted adviser for the DHA on April 8, 2016.

The 32-year career soldier comes to DHA from the Army’s Regional Health Command Pacific, Hawaii. Starting as a combat medic, Luciano has worked his way through the ranks of Army Medicine his entire career, serving in a variety of roles in its medical and administrative sectors. The veteran of two tours in Iraq believes being upfront with your people and giving them the tools for success are important.

“I have a pretty simple, straightforward philosophy using the acronym TAP: training, administration and people,” said Luciano. “I believe if we take care of the training of our people to effectively do the mission, they’ll be able to step up to take care of the mission.

We need to make sure we have the administrative tools—evaluations, awards, promotions boards— working to help people advance in their careers. And we have to make sure we have equal opportunities for our people by creating a command climate of dignity and respect.”

New Navy Ball Cap Policy

Command ball caps have recently been authorized to be worn with the Navy Working Uniform (NWU) Type II and Type III. The correct wear and authorized lettering, names, acronyms, logos and embroidery is the same as with the previously approved Navy blue ball cap.

The command ball cap will allow deployed Sailors sent to other regions or embedded in other commands the ability to share where they are from. Sailors are also now authorized to wear a coyote brown command ball cap with NWU Type II and Type III.

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AF Instructions for Storm Damage Claims

Weather-related claims for personal property damage resulting from storms may be considered if your property was located on your Air Force base, or it was located off base, and you were: (1) serving on temporary duty or permanent change of station orders located at your off-base hotel or other authorized location; or (2) serving on TDY or PCS orders driving directly from your last base to your next base.

If you have private insurance that covers your loss, you must first file with your insurance carrier. The required documents and checklist can be found on the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General website, http://1.usa.gov/28UeLyy. You may also contact the Air Force Claim Service Center at 1-877-754-1212, or DSN 986-8044, or commercial at 937-656-8044.

Army Looking to Expand Arlington National Cemetery

The Army is beginning a yearlong environmental assessment of a proposed 38-acre expansion of Arlington National Cemetery that it hopes will extend the life of the facility by 20 years.

More than 400,000 people are buried at the cemetery, with as many as 30 new burials a day. Without the proposed Southern Expansion Project, the cemetery will run out of room in the mid-2030s, even with the strict eligibility standards in place for burial there.

Recently, cemetery officials briefed the public on the southern expansion, which hinges on a land swap with Arlington County and the Virginia Department of Transportation.

The negotiations have been ongoing for several years and the broad outline of the swap is in place: The Army would get land adjacent to the existing cemetery to use for burials, while the county and state would get land to improve transit and traffic on its bustling Columbia Pike corridor, which serves the Pentagon and other commuter hotspots.

Negotiations have been ongoing for several years, but no deal has been reached.

County officials say the Army is worried that mass-transit operations adjacent to the cemetery would be aesthetically incompatible with the cemetery itself. County officials say they will design and build any new facilities in a way that addresses those concerns.

At Wednesday’s hearing, Army and county officials both expressed optimism about reaching a deal that will be beneficial for all involved.

“To me, this is a good opportunity not only for Arlington National Cemetery but for the region as well,” said Col. Doug Guttormsen, the cemetery’s engineering director.

Greg Emanuel, Arlington County’s director of environmental services, said the cemetery is one of the county’s jewels and the county has every interest in protecting it as it seeks to redevelop the land and transportation network adjacent to it. “All parties are moving in the right direction,” he said.

The Army Corps of Engineers will conduct its environmental assessment of the proposed expansion over the next year and will solicit public input.

In addition to permits and environmental assessments, the Army will eventually need to obtain funding from Congress for the expansion. Guttormsen said the cost is currently estimated at $274 million and if all goes well, construction on the project could begin in 2018.

SASC Defense Policy Bill Bans BRAC

The six SASC subcommittees approved their portions of the NDAA Monday and Tuesday, with three of them holding open sessions that teased out a few details of the full Senate bill.

The bill would ban a new round of base closures requested by the Pentagon for the fifth straight year, said Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), the Readiness chairwoman. “I do not want to give the department the open-ended authority to pursue another BRAC round that will incur significant up-front costs,” Ayotte said.

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Navy Faces $848 Million Ops & Maintenance Shortfall

US Navy leaders have made no secret the fleet’s maintenance accounts are underfunded.The situation – exacerbated by several years of sequestration-mandated budget cuts, a government shutdown, Congress’ chronic ability to pass a budget before the end of each fiscal year, a high operating tempo and the cumulative effects of all those problems – is affecting the readiness of ships, aircraft and sailors.

The Navy has an $848 million shortfall in its current operations and maintenance accounts, a service official said, and while there will be no impact to forces already deployed, continuing problems “would likely delay some deployments.”

As the Navy moves through the fiscal year’s third quarter, officials are preparing to take several actions to limit 2016 spending: • Deferring overhauls on four surface ships and one submarine from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 into fiscal 2017’s first quarter; • “descoping” or deferring continuous maintenance for the assault ships Makin Island and America amphibious ready groups and the Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group; • Restricting Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1) flying hours, including imposing a four-month no-fly period, and limiting other flying hour program costs; • And deferring “various other contracts.”

The Carl Vinson,America and Makin Island recently completed major overhauls and are expected to deploy in the coming year. CVW-1, on the other hand, completed a full deployment in 2015, is now in a “maintenance phase,” and is not expected to deploy again until 2019.

The Navy also notes that a decision announced May 2 to extend the current deployment of the Harry S.Truman carrier strike group by one month to combat ISIS will require an additional $91 million in operations spending.

Pushing the five ship overhauls into next year, the Navy official noted, will add to 2017’s scheduling problems and increase required funding by $473 million.

Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) is urging Congress to increase maintenance funding and chaired a combined hearing of his Seapower and Projection Forces and Readiness subcommittees to focus on the issue. Forbes had hoped to draw special attention by holding the hearing in Norfolk aboard the soon-to-deploy carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, but the effort was scotched by the Pentagon, although Forbes and other House Armed Services Committee members on Monday toured the flattop and several other ships and facilities.

“We are not currently providing our Navy with the resources it needs to do what we ask,” Forbes said in his opening statement. “At least not without burning out our ships and our planes and our sailors and undermining our long-term readiness.”

The Navy itself, Forbes said, the service is at its “lowest readiness point in many years.” “The resources we have been allocating to that critical function of government have been woefully inadequate,” he said.

Capt. Randy Stearns, commodore of Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic, said one in four aircraft were usually deployed and noted there were extreme issues with older F/A-18 Hornet strike fighters and CH-53 helicopters. Non-deploying aircraft were regularly being robbed of parts to keep deployed planes flying, with the result that the fleet had little surge capacity should more aircraft be needed.

Asked where the problems began, Stearns replied, “sequestration – we’ve never caught up.”

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MEMORIAL DAY 2016 Memorial Day is about honoring service members who gave the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our country whether in battle, in support of combat operations or having died in the line of duty just doing their jobs. It is also a day to reflect on knowing these sacrifices come because your country’s military is protecting our nation and all it stands for, and remains continuously ready to do so.

Every year, on Memorial Day, NAUS along with the Society of Military Widows take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. But this year, we layed a very special wreath . . . a wreath that our members helped create. We asked our members to return small roses we sent to them and place the name of a loved one to be remembered on the back of the rose.

In Tribute To: Majorie Armstrong by SMW National

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by Mrs. Joann L. Prosser CMSgt John Hasko, USAF by Mrs. Susan M. Hasko CMSgt Lonnie Mack, USAF by LtCol James O. Turner, USAF (RET) Col Arthur C. Carroll by Mrs. Martha Carroll COL C. G. Hubbart, USA by LTC James A. Hubbart, USA (RET) Col Charles Kent, USMC by MSgt Bobbie C. Springer, USAF (RET) Col Herbert Neathery by Mrs. Lynn G. Neathery Col Hubert C. Place, (Ret) by Ms. Janet A. Place COL James A. Quinlan, USA by Mrs. Nettie H. Quinlan Col Joseph A. Murphy by SFC Stanley J. Stewart, USA (RET) Col Michael D. McElhanon by Maj Wyman R. Sharpe, USAF (RET) COL Morris J. Naudts by CSM Charles D. Averett, USA (RET) Col Robert L. Hurst by Col Charles R. Hurst, USAF (RET) Cpl Edward N. Hart by 1SG Verlin J. Hart, USA (RET) Cpl Stanley R. Allison by MSG Hugh D. Sapp, USA (RET) CPO George T. Morgan, USN by MSgt George W. Morgan, USAF (RET) CPO Larry Craig by SMSgt George W. Robinson, USAF (RET) CPT Erwin Pugens by SFC Brian S. Pugens, USA (RET) Craig Blackmon by COL Robert S. Fiero, USA (RET) CSM Charles T. Dallas, USA (Ret)

by Mrs. Christa B. Dallas CSM Howard R. Evans by SGM Robert S. Mc Divitt, USA (RET) CSM Robert Jorden by MSG Bobby G. Plant, USA (RET) Curtis H. Hicks by Mrs. Sara K. Hicks

CW1 Ronald Boeing by SP4 Michael P. ompson, USA (VET) CW3 George Ray Boston, (Ret) by MSG Robert C. Boston, USA (RET) CW4 James Ray Benson by SFC James E. Benson, ARNG (RET) CWO Walter S. Lockard by Ms. Franca B. Lockard CWO2 Charles Adams by MSgt Dennis Robison, USAF (RET) Daisy L. Garner by LTC Isaac R. Garner, Jr., USA (RET) Dalton M. Estein by Mrs. Anna F. Estein Darlene Manders by SSG Leonard G. Manders, USNG (RET) David Ford, Jr., USAF (Ret) by MSgt Donald G. Reid, USAF (RET) Dennis Clemmer, Sr. by SGT Albert S. Clemmer, USA (RET) Don M. Walker, USA by SK1 David W. Walker, USN (RET) Donald A. LeVasseur by CPT James M. LeVasseur, AUS (RET) Donald A. Moodie by CMSgt Kent R. Pfremmer, USAF (RET) Donald Ampe by TSgt Gary F. Ampe, USAF (RET) Donald D. Brown by PO3 Butch Barnett, USN (VET) Donald Elmer Kernea & Donald Edward Kernea by Mrs. Flora L. Kernea Donald L. Story, USN by MCPO Michael G. Dooner, USNR (RET) Donald W. Hogue by MSG Horace D. Hogue, USA (RET) Donald Wennik by Col Chester C. Lukas, USAF (RET) Doreen Isaacson by COL Roger M. Isaacson, USA (RET) Doris M. Fischer by COL George F. Fischer, USA (RET) Dorothy Skopayko by MSG John Skopayko, III, USA (RET) Earl J. Law by LTC Henry E. Rosser, USA (RET) Earnest C. Howellby Mr. Ralph L. Howell Edgar Johnson by TSgt Fred J. Johnson, USAF (RET) Edmond Cleaborn by TSgt Carolyn M. Cleaborn, USAF (RET) Elizabeth Kerestes by SGM Paul A. Kerestes, USA (RET) Elizabeth Peterson Ward by LCDR David E. Ward, USN (RET) Ernest Leyba, George Leybe, & Nelson Leyba by MSgt Pete T. Leyba, USAF (RET) ErniebySGMTerrenceG.Harper,USA(RET) Eugene Preston Hollers by AOC Alan J. Hollers, USN (RET) Florine S. Wise by SCPO James D. Wise, USN (RET) Floyd Holliday by SGM Frank B. Orr, USA (RET) Francisco Algar Nunez, USMC by Ms. Linda R. Hofstedt Francisco Xavier by Col Armando Arvizu, USAF (RET) Frank Baran by TSgt Casimir F. Betlinski, USAF (RET) Frank Hillby LTC Frank J. Hill, USA (RET) Franklin Schafer by SMSgt Ronald J. Poulton, USAF (RET) Fred & Irene Ware by SA Phillip N. Ware, USN (RET) Freda Stahl by 1SG Erman J. Stahl, USA (RET) Gary R. Constantine, Jr. by LtCol Gary R. Constantine, USAF (RET) George Williams by TSgt Stanley E. Williams, USAF (RET) Geralding Guerra by SFC Vincent C. Guerra, USA (RET) Glen Dale Steckler by MSgt Douglas R. Eddins, USAF (RET)

Gordon W. Fasbender, Sr. by SSG Gerald D. Fasbender, USA (RET) Greg Kraykovich by MSgt Roger D. Smith, USAF (RET) H. M. Miller, USMC by CW3 Robert L. Miller, USA (RET) Harmon Hutton by Mrs. Anna Hutton Harold D. Skiles by A1C Hugh W. Hiller, USAF (RET) Harold Underberg by LTC Oscar Undeberg, USA (RET) Harry Saul by LTC Joseph H. Saul, USA (RET) Hayden D. Vickers by TSgt Eugene D. Vickers, USAF (RET) Henry Orval Davis by SFC Daniel D. Davis, USA (RET) Herb & Howard Walls by SMSgt Ronald Walls, USAF (RET) Herbert E. Bell by SSG omas L. Bell, USA (RET) Herbert J. Ottby COL John J. Ott, USA (RET) Herman A. Ramsey by SP4 Irene R. Clark, USA (VET) Horace A. Broome by SFC Bobby Broome, USA (RET) Hugh D. Luke by Ms. Princess C. Luke Ilona Kay McMullin by SFC John B. McMullin, USA (RET) Ira Hayes, USMC by SSG Virgil L. Yazzie, USA (RET) Jack & Fritz Metcalf by 1SG Robert E. Metcalf, USA (RET) Jack F. Dyer by Mrs. Margaret A. Dyer Jackie Sardock by TSgt William J. Sardock, USAF (RET) James & Betty Lucas by MSgt Kenneth C. Lucas, USAF (RET) James C. Styron, Sr. by MCPO Troy M. Styron, USCG (RET) James D. Ford by Ms. Evelin B. Ford James D. Nalder by CW4 Richard T. Henselen, Ret., USA (RET) James E. Robinson by PO1 Carol S. Bayouth, USN (RET) James R. O'Brien by SGM Robert J. O'Brien, USA (RET) James Sage by MSgt Alan F. Atwell, USAF (RET) Jane Wilkinson, RN by CW4 Gordon T. Wilkinson, USA (RET) Janice F. Lawn by LTC Michael J. Lawn, USA (RET) Jean Egolf by SFC Don Egolf, USA (RET) Jeff Wright by MSgt Gene A. Wright, USAF (RET) Joan Berry by CW4 George Hadley, USA (RET) Joanne McLaughlin by MSgt Rex B. McLauchlin, USAF (RET) Joe Lay, USA (Ret) by Ms. Mili Lay John b. Owens by MSG Willard E. Owens, USA (RET) John Dunning by CW3 James A. Asher, USA (RET) John E. Gavitt, USA by Col William F. Gavitt, USAF (RET) John F. Crowe, Jr. by COL J. Godfrey Crowe, USA (RET) John J. Biernat by Mrs. Cora M. Biernat John J. Maggard by 1SG Bobby B. Maggard, USA (RET) John Lund by PSG Chester H. Lee, USA (RET) John Marsim, Sr. by MSG Don M. Lidstone, USA (RET) John Seipel by 1SG Stephen J. Prissel, USAR (RET) John Selmer omsen by CPO Brendon J. Galvin, USN (RET) John W. Crossley by SSgt Lewis M. Crossley, USAF (RET) Johnie J. Wrigh, Jr. by COL Charles A. Edwards, USA (RET)

Jonna M. Williams by SFC Douglas Williams, USNG (RET) Joseph A. Hill by Ms. Alice J. Hill Joseph A. Pinckney by CMSgt Frank A. Pinckney, Jr., USAF (RET) Joseph A. Schiefer, Jr. by Mrs. Josephine Schiefen Joseph Ajaby SGM Edward Aja, USA (RET) Joseph B. Srebro, USAF by MSgt John V. Tomczak, USAF (RET) Joseph Bean by Ms. Phyllis B. Bean Joseph Miceli by CDR eodore W. Ward, USN (RET) Joy M. Cocheu by LtCol eodore F. Cocheu, USAF (RET) Julie Clark by MSgt Harvey M. Clark, USAF (RET) Kathleen Albright by CWO Jerry W. Albright, USMC (RET) Kathleen Greeley Burton by Ms. Ellen McGuire Kenneth W. Greer by MG Edward Greer, USA (RET) Larry Carrol by MSgt Charles B. Turner, USAF (RET) Lee H. Clawson by MSgt Charles R. Clawson, USAF (RET) Leonard M. Addington, USA by TSgt John L. Addington, USAF (RET) Leroy Eckersley by SFC Arden L. Eckersley, USA (RET) Lina M. Peters by 1SG Robert C. Peters, USA (RET) Lionel M. Simington by Mrs. Dorothy Simington Lois Daley by MSgt Frank L. omas, USAF (RET) Lorraine Snell by LtCol Delbert E. Oldenburg, USAF (RET) Losie M. Hayward by MSG George W. Hayward, USA (RET) Loubertha Estelle (Belcher) Castor by SSgt David A. Johnson, USAF (RET) Louis F. Burr by LCDR omas S. Burr, USN (RET) Larry Miller by Mr. Linus M. Miller LT George Choate by LtCol David E. Choate, USAF (RET) Lt Jack Kennedy by CDR John S. Hoover, USN (RET) LT Joe Toomey by LTC Loren S. Patterson, USA (RET) LTC Delores A. Street by LTC Vernon D. Johnson, USA (RET) LTC Ed Bowen by Ms. Joan E. Bowen LTC Page Nelson by Maj William M. Chute, II, USAF (RET) LTC William Chunko by LTC William R. Chunco, USA (RET) LtCol Alvin A. Poag, Jr.by Mrs. Lorraine Poag LtCol Edward J. Lange by Mrs. Ingrid D. Lange LtCol Frank Corbett, USAF by SMSgt Frank W. Corbett, Jr., USAF (RET) LtCol John K. Rosskopf by Maj James D. Rosskopf, USAF (RET) LtCol Reginald C. Doiron by Mrs. Iris J. Doiron LtCol Victor Ohanesian, USMC by LCDR Glenn Ohanesian, USNR (RET) Madalene Trimble by Maj John E. Trimble, USAF (RET) Mae L. Drew by SFC Phillip P. Drew, USA (RET) MAJ James W. Harris by Mrs. Marjorie R. Harris MAJ Robert L. Monroe by Mrs. Connie J. Monroe MAJ Ronald Sittner, USAF by LtCol Ross J. Simon, USAF (RET) Maj omas Fowlesby Ms. Audrey J. Fowles Maj William M. McClendon by LtCol Jim T. Meredith, USAF (RET) Marilyn L. Drake by Maj Edward K. Drake, USAF (RET) Martha Engelbrecht by Mr. George E. Engelbrecht Martin Looney by SFC Charles L. Looney, USA (RET) Mary Agnes Tansey by CAPT Eugene A. Tansey, USN (RET) Mary Graves by SFC Samuel A. Coles, USA (RET) Mary Hellen Buckler Linger by CSM Sheldon L. Linger, USA (RET) Mary Lou “Baby Doll" Anderson by ATC Harold C. Anderson, USN (RET) Marylin and Skip Skipper by TSgt Robert L. Swisher, USAF (RET) Members of the 1st Cavalry in Korea

by MSG Paul C. Buffington, USA (RET)

Metro Nester by CWO3 Nicholas P. Nester, USMC (RET) MIAbyCMSgtCesarA.Rodriguez,USAF(RET) Mildred Browns by AFCM James L. Browns, USN (RET) Milford E. Hall by CMSgt Lawrence C. Hall, USAF (RET) Millard Posey, Jr. by SP5 Ward A. Posey, USA (VET) Mitchell C. Reich by LTC Ila Rae Reich, USAR (RET) Mittie Lewis & Jordan Butler by MSgt James Butler, USAF (RET) Morris Horowitzby Mrs. Muriel Horowitz MSG Jesse Trimble by MSG William D. Wright, USA (RET) MSG Louis Kimble by SSG James O. Kimble, USA (RET) MSG Raymond K. Mowdy, USA (Ret) by 1SG Harold R. Robertson, USA (RET) MSG Terry Porterby Ms. Elfriede K. Porter MSgt Chas L. Holt by Mrs. Betty J. Holt MSgt Cyrus E. Knox & MSgt Edward F. O'Hara by Mrs. Frances E. O'Hara MSgt Johnny D. Jones, USAF (Ret)

by SMSgt William R. Jones, USAF (RET) MSgt Melburn V. Rheingans, USAF (Ret)

by Mrs. Elizabeth A. Rheingans MSgt Robert J. Hinch, USAF (Ret) by Mrs. Lillie R. Hinch Myrna Ginsburg by Col Brian J. Ginsburg, M.D., USAF (RET) Odill Pettitt by CDR Royce E. Pettit, Jr., USN (RET) Ora A. Vernon by COL Elwin A. Vernon, USA (RET) O'Rean H. Freeman by 1stSgt James G. Freeman, USMC (RET) Oscar Nugren by RADM Harley D. Nygren, NOAA (RET) Othel Joe Wallace, USMC by LTC Rex M. Wallace, Sr., USA (RET) Otto Klima by LTJG Marie S. Klima, USNR (VET) Otto S. Luoma by MSgt Randall N. Soli, USAF (RET) Patricia Ann Calloway by MAJ Byron A. Calloway, USA (RET) Patrick B. Fischlerby Mrs. Roselle J. Fischler Paul Alexander by MSgt Herman E. Beard, USAF (RET) Paul Jackson by CSM Richard A. DeLauder, USA (RET) Paul Jaworski by MAJ Fred J. Swiderski, USA (RET) PCC Terry D. Nelson, USN by PC1 Patrick F. Huston, USN (RET) PFC Merle T. Davis by SSG Charles F. Davis, USA (RET) PVT Allison Ausmus by SGT Sharon D. Freeman-Stewart, USA (RET) PVT Dixon Long Coulbourn, USA by 1LT Dixon W. Coulbourn, USA (RET) PVT Donald S. Oakes by TSgt Cecil W. Oakes, USAF (RET) PVT Gary Hedin by LTC omas W. Hart, USA (RET) PVT Jonas S. Ritter by MAJ Jerry D. Ritter, USA (RET) RADM H. J. Ray & LT J. H. Ray by Ms. Helen L. Ray Ralph Killian by MSgt Lester M. Ridall, USAF (RET) Raymond D. VanDusen, Sr. by MSgt Raymond D. VanDusen, Jr., USAF (RET) Roanld Brougher by Col George W. Bennett, USAF (RET) Robert A. Galiley, II by CPO Robert A. Galiley, USN (RET) Robert Fountain by SFC William T. Bosanko, USA (RET) Robert L. Harrisby Mrs. Marlene A. Harris Robert L. Parenteau by 1SG Allen D. Rud, USA (RET) Robert L. Young by UTC Martin J. Callaway, USN (RET) Robert R. Webb, USA by TSgt Aulden L. Stewart, USAF (RET) Robert S. Cooper by Ms. Patsy J. Cooper Robert Schaab by Ms. Beverly J. Schaab Robert Wood by TSgt John Harceg, Jr., USAF (RET) Roosevelt Cash by 1SG Henry C. Henderson, USA (RET) Roxie P. Reese, USAby Mrs. Betty A. Reese Ruby V. Cook by CPO Ralph A. Cook, USN (RET) Rudolph Wilkerson by SMSgt Howard D. Wilkerson, USAF (RET) Ruth A. Storz by SGM Leonard A. Storz, USAR (RET)

S2C Clifford Raines Jr., USN by TSgt Bobby C. Raines, USAF (RET) Sam Hubbard, USN by SMSgt James C. Treat, USAF (RET) Samuel Somon by SFC Joel Verhaal, USA (RET) Selma Corser by MSgt Karl W. Corser, Jr., USAF (RET) SFC Anthony J. Montesa, USA by Ms. Sandra Montesa SFC Elmer G. Hicks, USA by LtCol Robert W. Hicks, USAF (RET) SFC John D. Stewartby Mrs. Betty J. Stewart SFC O. Raymond McCrea, USA by CW4 George E. McCrea, USA (RET) SFC Richard J. Barrett, USA by Mrs. Arlie L Barrett SFC Robert E. Kelly, USA by Mrs. Carole H. Kelly SFC Ronald N. St. Louis, USA (Ret)

by Mrs. Emily R. St Louis SFC Roy Shelnut, USA by CSM James A. Craig, USA (RET) SFC Willie London, USA by CW2 Bobby Hudson, USA (RET) SGM Ardie L. Jones by Mrs. Hannelore B. Jones SGM Robert G. Hoffman, USA (Ret)

by Mrs. Judy Hoffman SGT Angel Reyes-Beauchamp by SGM William Reyes-Beauchamp, USA (RET) Sgt Ben Brooks by MSgt Jackie H. Singletary, USAF (RET) Sgt Bill Wilks by TSgt Kenneth D. Lowery, USAF (RET) Sgt Hugh J. Sullavin, USMC by Sgt Anthony Joyce, USMC (VET) Sgt Maurice Patrie, USMC by BM1 Gerald L. Patrie, USN (RET) SGT Michael Joseph by SGM David F. Biron, USA (RET) SGT Ray Huskey by ADJ2 Phillip J. Ronish, USN (RET) SGT Walter F. Wendt by SFC Walter L. Brazelton, USA (RET) Sidney Joseph Majesty by LtCol Melvin S. Majesty, USAF (RET) Sidney Lennon by 1SG Harry J. Clark, USA (RET) SMSgt Alden J. Gates by Amn Daisy L. Gates, USAF (VET) SMSgt Douglas I. Syda, USAF (Ret)

by Mrs. Josephine A. Syda SMSgt Harrell Washington by Ms. Dollie M. Washington SMSgt Robert C. Betteridge, USAF by Mrs. Iris P. Betteridge Sol Goldfarb by MSgt Eugene Goldfarb, USAF (RET) SSG Andy Kennerknecht, USA by TSgt Milton A. Langevin, USAF (RET) SSG Bartley Overdahl & Y3C Helen Overdahl by SSgt Bruce H. Overdahl, USAF (RET) SSG Charles Seaton by SFC Bill Seaton, USA (RET) SSG William P. Brown, USA (Ret) by Mrs. Rebecca Brown SSgt Joe Sopolsky by MSgt omas Sopolsky, USAF (RET) SSgt Raymond Hanks by CMSgt Coy A. Stewart, USAF (RET) Susie Mitchell by SFC John H. Mitchell, Jr., USA (RET) Sybil Farrow by CW4 Billy J. Farrow, USA (RET) Terry D. Frazier by SSgt Ronald K. Frazier, USAF (RET) Terry Leon Wooten, USN by SFC William E. Wooten, USA (RET) atcher Mark Buckingham by LtCol Jack L. Buckingham, USAF (RET) e Bouchard Family by MSgt Paul L. Bouchard, USAF (RET) e Cra Family military by MAJ Roger F. Cra, USA (RET) e Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

by Mr. omas R. Masino e Unknown Soldier by MSgt Reginald D. McGlone, USAF (RET) e Unknown Soldier by MSG Robert C. Jordan, USA (RET) omas Edison Snyder by Ms. Janet J. Snyder omas Fulp by MSgt James I. Tingler, USAF (RET) omas L. Wines by MSG Harold D. Wines, USA (RET) To all who have their lives in battle by PO1 Arthur D. Bower, USN (RET) Tom Hodge by SFC Allen D. Rauser,

USA (RET) Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by SGM Robert E. Bunnell, USA (RET) TSgt Ervin A. Fenske by MSgt Donald B. Fenske, USAF (RET) TSgt Herbert O. Johnson, USAF (Ret)

by Mrs. Erika Johnson TSgt Jean L. Mulder, USAF (Ret) by Ms. Glendora L. Mulder TSgt L. D. Mathews, USAF by Mrs. Doris R. Mathews TSgt omas W. omas by MSgt Robert W. omas, USAF (RET) TSgt Vale Stark by TSgt George Perry, USAF (RET) Unknown Soldier by SMSgt Herbert C. Schmidt, USAF (RET) US Unknown Soldier of Vietnam by LTC John A. Reid, Jr., USA (RET) Vernie A. Gray, Jr., USMC (Ret) by SFC H. Joy Gray, USA (RET) Vernon C. Swager, USA by SGM Richard G. Swagger, USA (RET) Vinson R. Simpson, Sr. by 1stLt Vinson Simpson, USAF (VET) Viola E. Borchelt by MSG Oscar E. Borchelt, USA (RET) Viola Willard by CMSgt Ronald D. Willard, USAF (RET) W. A. Schepansky, Sr. by MSgt James H. Schepansky, USAF (RET) Walter E. iery & Robert B. Richardson

by ENC Carl E. iery, USN (RET) Wilberta Janet Usher by Maj Howard C. Usher, Jr., USAF (RET) Wilbur O. Fraser by COL Olen G. Fraser, USA (RET) William (Bill) Priske by SFC Daniel A. Cross, USA (RET) William Drake by Mrs. Marilyn M. Drake William Gaborick by SFC Martin H. Brewer, USA (RET) William H. Baker by Col Mack E. Baker, USAF (RET) William James Higgins, II by MSgt Leo R. Higgins, USAF (RET) Z. Paul Guidry by SMSgt Boyce J. Trahan, USAF (RET) Betty J. Greb by MSgt Donald W. Greb, USAF (RET) Albert Polk by COL Otto C. Grummt, USA (RET) Arville St. John by MAJ Ila N. St John, USA (VET) Benjamin DiJosephby Mrs. Joan P. DiJoseph BGen Claire Garrecht, USAF (Ret), Col Virginia Alena, USAF (Ret), & Antoinette Moran by Col Mary F. Clementi, USAF (RET) Bud Morris by SFC George M. Radvansky, USA (RET) Christine Corkins by CPO Gerald S. Corkins, USCG (RET) Clarissa Cooke by 1SG Lauren H. Alinio, USA (RET) COL Alonzo Smith by Maj George H. Smith, USAF (RET) Coy Simmons by SFC Alan Simmons, USA (RET) CPT Frank G. Kondler, USAR (Ret)

by MSgt Francis P. Kondler, USAF (RET) Dorothy Van Doorn by SFC John H. Van Doorn, USA (RET) Flora Jean Fisher by CDR Lowell E. Fisher, USN (RET) George Blake by MSgt George W. Hall, ANG (RET) George W. Higgins by Mrs. Pauline Higgins Harold Motze by 1stLt Lloyd E. Hugill, USAF (RET) Harry H. Horton, USA by LTC August L. Keyes, USA (RET) Harry Hulen by CAPT Jack F. Ritter, USN (RET) Hildegard K. Ostrem by MSG Francis Patrick Ostrem, USA (RET) Irvin William Steining by Maj Nelson F. Kane, USAF (RET) John Roman, USA (Ret) by MSgt John M. Roman, USAF (RET) Lola Gentile by MSG Richard E. Gentile, USA (RET) LtCol George L. Hollett, USMC by Col Frank W. Harris, III, USMC (RET) LtCol James J. Reagan by Mrs. Jean F. R. Krzywicki Maj Joseph A. Parker, Jr., USAF by MSgt Nicholas Vassil, USAF (RET) Margaret & Leroy Adledge by SFC Harold L. Arledge, USA (RET) MSG Willaim W. Fort by Mrs.

Dorothy R. Fort Norman & Arthur Hetz by GMC Harold E. Hetz, USN (RET) Peggie J. Wilkes by GySgt Gerald Wilkes, USMC (RET) Robert Baileyby CMSgt Allan L. Lindblom, USAF (RET) Robert M. Kistler by Mrs. Sylvia L. Kistler Scott J. & Rex R. Williams by LtCol Tereld T. Williams, USAF (RET) SSgt Joseph D. Kiss, USAF (Ret)

by Mrs. eresa M. Kiss e 58,479 who gave all in Vietnam

by SFC Jerry D. Smith, USA (RET) TSgt Daniel L. Hunter, USAF by Mrs. Wanda L. Hunter Vern Pyles by CAPT William E. Vollmer, Jr., USN (RET) William E. McElwain, USA by Mr. George G. Jamison 1LT Albert F. Valentinelli by SMSgt Terrance A. Lloyd, USAF (RET) 1SG Richardo Villarina by Maj Ricardo Villarina, Jr., USAF (RET) Albert Leopold Beyer by Mrs. Anna M. Beyer Alford McDanielby Mrs. Anna S. McDaniel All service men & women who gave their lives for our freedom by SFC Daniel T. Baker, USA (RET) All USAF by MSgt Arthur C. Tracey, USAF (RET) Arthur Kanterman by MSgt David M. Kanterman, USAF (RET) Avis Versy by SGM William L. Stewart, USA (RET) B. Bonvie by CSM Peter W. Howlett, USA (RET) Bill Collis by Cpl Timothy M. Forbes, USMC (VET) Blossom Ellis by LtCol Donald R. Moore, USAFR (RET) Bobby Holzier by MAJ James B. Dowds, USA (RET) Bobby M. Johnson by Ms. Patricia L. Johnson CAPT George C. Schoulda, USN (Ret)

by Mrs. Eleanor L. Schoulda Carl E. Wilis by Mrs. Betty E. Willis Charles E. Klinkhamer by Mrs. Jean R. Klinkhamer Charles J. Smith by MSgt Joseph J. Fitzpatrick, USAF (RET) Charlie Davis by CMSgt Nathanel E. Davis, USAF (RET) Chuck Pickett by LTC Elwray Pujol, USA (RET) Clifford Neal Berry by MSgt Anthony Soda, USAF (RET) CMSgt Charles Miovic, USAF (Ret)

by Ms. Karolina Miovic CMSgt Earl Willoughby by MSgt Robert E. Staton, USAF (RET) CMSgt Jimmie D. Casey, USAF (Ret) by 1SG Billy E. Casey, USA (RET) CMSgt William D. Sainer, USAF by CMSgt William D. Sainer, USAF (RET) COL Clion J. Hawkins by Ms. Joeanne Hawkins Col George H. Damato, USAFR (Ret)

by Mrs. Shirley G. Damato Col Ivor P. Evans by Mrs. Muriel M. Evans Col Joseph H. Baugh, M.D. by Mrs. Dorothy L. Baugh CPL Warren K. Horne by AD1 Farrell K. Horne, USN (RET) CPO Claude A. Knight by Mrs. Cesarina F. Knight Crawford G. Hulvey, USA by SMSgt Robert L. Hulvey, USAF (RET) CSM Rimer, USA by CSM Lloyd H. Kindred, USA (RET) Dan Krebs by Mrs. Dianne W. Krebs Daniel Dennis by Mr. Bob F. Jesse Daniel J. DeMara, Jr.by Ms. Kathy M. Erickson Dolores Bonde by LtCol Richard E. Bonde, USAF (RET) Dominic O. Runcoby Mrs. Ellen N. Runco Donald A. Miller by LtCol Jane M. Knight, USAF (RET) Donald E. Julius by Mrs. Irene J. Julius Donald Martin by Mrs. Norma L. Martin Doris Laliberte by SFC Maurice R. Laliberte, USA (RET) E. R. Bradford & Helen L. Grimes by MSgt Gareld L. Grimes, USAF (RET) Edward J. Wymore by Ms. V. L. Wymore Edward L. Smith by CAPT Roger L. Buck, USN (RET) Edward Willard Stapp by MSG Ronald E. Stapp, USA (RET) Ellen Marie Crooker by CPL Robert

W. Crooker, USA (VET) Elsa Hostetler by SGM Gerald D. Hostetler, USA (RET) Emmett W.Flynnby Mrs. Lucille M. Flynn Eugene F. Ohmer, USA by Mrs. Mildred I. Ohmer Felix Z. Ruiz, Jr. by Mrs. Marna I. Ruiz Flarius W. Powell by Mrs. Beatrice Powell Frank M. Grady, Sr., USN by Amn Frank M. Grady, USAF (RET) Frank Spring by Mr. James J. Spring Frederick Pellon, USA by MSgt William J. Bergstrom, USAF (RET) George B., Roger F., Charles V., George Pettit & Ray Erwin by TSgt Edward M. Pettit, USAF (RET) George Kunzat by SMCS Zane K. Puckett, USN (RET) George Williams by SFC Martha J. Williams, USA (RET) Grace E. Brasher by MAJ Vernon H. Brasher, USA (RET) Harry & Mary Meinhardt by Maj Angelo M. Inglisa, USMC (RET) Herbert Hommel by CDR Barbara E. Miller, NC, USN (RET) Hilde Swisher by SGM Edward F. Swisher, USA (RET) HT1 George C. Adams by EMC Hunter Gentry, USN (RET) Iluminado V. Tuliocby Mrs. Nemesia Tulioc Irene Baranowski by MSG Francis J. Baranowski, USA (RET) J. W. Hogan by TSgt Joseph L. Bartlett, USAF (RET) James A. Jones & Delmer Ray Grissom

by Mrs. Mary L. Jones James D. Laster, Sr.by Mrs. Bessie K. Laster James E. McClaren, USMC by SSG Jerome McClaren, USA (RET) James L. Bates by ABCM James D. Bates, USN (RET) James L. Hudnallby Mrs. Mildred M. Hudnall Janet Nelson by LtCol Floyd A. Nelson, USAF (RET) Jean H. Collins by CMSgt Earl C. Collins, USAF (RET) Jesse O. Page by CSM Charles M. Page, USA (RET) Jesse Robert Sanders, USA by MSgt Robert J. Sanders, USAF (RET) John D. Larimer, Jr. by Marion Larimer, USA John L. Cobble by Capt G. omas Teague, USAF (RET) John Lynch by COL Gordon L. Fisher, USA (RET) John M. Chabala, USA (Ret) by SCPO Albert J. Schofield, USN (RET) John Pardus by LTC Joseph F. Goyette, USAR (RET) Johnny Brown, Jr. by MSgt Clovis D. Greiner, USAF (RET) Kristina R. Greimer, USNR by CAPT Harold F. Greiner, USN (RET) Larry Hull by Col Robert A. Heckman, USAF (RET) LCDR Kenneth Mitchell by Mrs. Judith A. Mitchell Lester O. Gray by PO1 Jeannine A. Gray, USNR (RET) Lewis Caddell by MSG James C. Caddell, ARNG (RET) Lou H. & Sallie Oxendine by SSG William L. Oxendine, USA (RET) LT Michael L. Nathe by CW3 Albert L. Doucette, USA (RET) LTC Donald M. Opel, USA & MSG Oscar Lee Conrad, USA by SGT Jean S. Opel, USA (VET) LTC Ed Bourgeois, (Ret) by Mrs. Marguerite S. Bourgeois LtCol Jack Hagopian, USAF (Ret) by LTC Jack C. Hagopian, USA (VET) Mack, Kress, Latt, & Joe Stutts by MSG Jesse B. Stutts, USA (RET) MAJ Edward B. Quillby Ms. Joan E. Quill MAJ William R. Phillips by BG Teddy E. Williams, USA (RET) Mary M. Nowak by LTC S. A. Nowak, USA (RET) Maurice M. Friedman by Mrs. Jeannette A. Friedman MGySgt Donald Patrode, USMC by Mrs. Darleen Patnode Michael Waymire by TSgt Garrell D. Jones, USAF (RET) Mike & Macke Luecke by GySgt John M. Haeseley, USMC (RET) MM2 Alvin McArdle by SSG Leo P. McArdle, USA (VET)

MSG Boyd J. ompson by MSG Jesse ompson, USA (RET) MSG James D. Amison by Ms. Wilma G. Amison MSgt Dennis M. Quintal by Mrs. Eliza M. Quintal MSgt Lem E. Dickey, (Ret) by Mrs. Patsy R. Dickey MSgt Raymond R. Berry, Sr. by Mrs. Brunhilde K. Berry Myron L. Shinn by SGM Bruce A. Eudy, USA (RET) Nobuko Rhodes by PCC Frank G. Rhodes, USN (RET) Normand Montplaisir by MSG Gerald Rivard, USA (RET) Paul Boat by LtCol Arthur C. Boat, USAF (RET) PFC Leo Pels, USA by PO1 Edwin F. Pels, USN (RET) Ralph Nett by Maj Kevin F. Eck, USAF (RET) Randall McCoy by Ms. Nancy W. McCoy Richard T. Morrisvby CMSgt Charles D. Morris, USAF (RET) Robert Perry, USAF & USN by TSgt Everett Perry, USAF (RET) Rosaleo Rosales, Sr. by SSG Romeo Rosales, Sr., USA (RET) Roscoe Richards by TSgt John J. Yarbor, USAF (RET) Rosemary Hertel by COL Robert G. Hertel, USA (RET) Ruth E. & Miraim F. Waldron by CPT James R. Waldron, USA (RET) Sarah Bunch by CMSgt John Hudson, USAF (RET) Sarkis Khederian by Capt Wilfred Clifford, USMC (RET) Scott Breckinridge by COL William E. Pilcher, III, USA (RET) Scott Frederick Dickson, USA by COL Lee C. Dickson, USA (RET) Selvin K. Jessie by Mrs. Kathleen O. Jessie SFC Al R. Sellers, USAby Mrs. Jean Sellers SFC Edward J. Flynn, USA by Ms. Jeraldine P. Flynn SFC John A. Mountford, USA (Ret)

by CPT George Stotz, Ret., AUS (RET) SFC John F. Lancaster, USA by SFC David L. Lancaster, USA (RET) SFC Nicholas Petrochko, USA by Mrs. elma M. Petrochko SGM Daller & LTC Jack Montgomery

by Mrs. Evelyn C. Montgomery Sgt David Castillo by SGM Elpidio Lin-Justiniano, USA (RET) SGT James R. Payton by CSM Wilma A. Johnson, USA (RET) Sgt Robert Hartmann by MSgt R. James Hartmann, USAF (RET) SMSgt Robert J. Bennett, USAF (Ret)

by Mrs. Joan L. Bennett SSgt Squillaci by SGT Charles Collins, USA (RET) SSgt Wickliffe H. Hahn by SSgt George R. Wood, USAF (RET) Stanley White, USMC by PO1 Alex G. Avery, USNR (VET) Stephan Frice by Maj Lawrence A. Frice, USAF (RET) e Unknown Soldier by Mr. Stephen Russell eodore R. Keeler, USA by Maj Doris Keeler, USMC (RET) eodore Rauby PVT Ron Rau, USA (RET) omas H. Chisolm by LTC Robert E. Chisolm, USA (RET) Tim Bouslog by LTC Harry V. Shoop, USA (RET) Tim Humphrey by LTC Melvin G. Humphrey, USA (RET) Tom C. Henry by LTC Jesse Lockaby, Jr., USA (RET) TSgt Everett C. Hughes, Jr., USAF

by Mrs. Gisela Hughes TSgt John Goff, USAF by CMSgt John L. Hays, USAF (RET) TSgt John H. Benfield, USAF (Ret)

by Mrs. Frances E. Benefield TSgt Michael Popp, USAF by LtCol Andrew Labosky, Jr., USAF (RET) Walter J. Wallaceby Mrs. Elanor S. Wallace Walter Parkins by CMSgt William T. Parkins, USAF (RET) William Bent, Jr. by Ms. Ilse Bent William C. Turner by SFC Eugene B. Turner, USA (RET) William W. Cory by Ms. Jo Ann Cory Willie, Frank, & Charlie Roberts

by SFC John T. Roberts, USA (RET) 1SG Ronald F. Carlson by Mrs. Jacklyn C. Carlson 1SG omas W. Meek by Mrs. Maxine Cage-Meek 1SG omas W. Palmateer by Ms. Jytte F. Palmateer 1stSgt Frederick A. York, USMC by Mrs. Barbara M. York 61st F. A. BN - 1st Cav Div, Korea by 1SG William E. Stewart, USA (RET) A. McClerklin by SSgt Joe N. Boyd, USAF (RET) A2C Faith L. Gainer Clay, USAF by MSgt Willie R. Clay, USAF (RET) Abbpetty Johnson by CSM Wyatt Johnson, USA (RET) Al Pennick by CW4 John A. Healy, USA (RET) Albert Brand by MSG Junior L. Henemyre, USA (RET) All by TSgt James O. Ray, USAF (RET) All Marines & Military Personnel

by MSgt Walter R. Spates, USMC (RET) All Servicemen & Women who lost their lives by MSgt Joseph M. Niezgoda, Jr., USAF (RET) Asa A. Hopper, USN by TSgt George M. Hopper, USAF (RET) Benedict Mistretta by COL Vincent E. Mistretta, USA (RET) Benjamin H. Griggs, Jr. by Mr. Benjamin H. Griggs, Sr. Benjamin Hemphill by Mrs. Syble L. Hemphill Bertha Gillby SFC Frank G. Gill, USA (RET) BG H. Glenn Watson, USA (RET) by Mr. H. Glenn Watson Billy N. Bills by CPO Carroll J. Overman, USN (RET) BMCM James L. Billups, USCG

by Mrs. Elizabeth D. Billups Bryce Morris by LtCol Steven B. Morris, USAF (RET) Calvin L. Rohrbough by MSG Dolpha D. Rohrbough, USA (RET) Capt Albert F. Sayer, Jr. by Mrs. Barbara J. Sayer Capt Dowell B. King by Ms. Barbara C. King Capt Harold D. Rosenbaum by Mrs. Doris F. Rosenbaum Capt James Byrd by SFC Joe A. Wesley, USA (RET) Carl R. Manthey by TSgt Jerry L. Manthey, USAF (RET) Carl acker by CMSgt omas K. Smola, USAF (RET) CDR Chester R Rocher, Sr., USN (Ret)

by PO1 Chester Rocher, Jr., USN (RET) Chadsey Penhallow by Mrs. Barbara Penhallow Charles H. Hoffman, USN by MSG William C. Hoffman, USA (RET) Charles Henry Dyches by CMSgt John Ruff, USAF (RET) Charles L. Lamb, Jr. by SMSgt Charles L. Lamb, USAF (RET) Charles N. Greenfield by MSG Hugh G. Greenfield, Jr., USA (RET) Charles R. Clair by Mrs. Judy C. Clair Charles R. Haileyby Mrs. Frieda M. Hailey Charles R. Sackman by Ms. Waneta C. Sackman Clarence E. Blair by Mrs. Joanne C. Blair CMSgt Steve Matusek, USAF by Mrs. Isolde Matusek Col and Mrs. B. B. Zellers by Maj Robert H. Zellers, USAF (RET) Col Austin J. Bonis by Ms. Esther J. Bonis, R.N. COL Dale A. Hawkins, USA & RADM James D. Enoch, USN by Mrs. Mildred S. Enoch Col Edward L. Ramsey by Mrs. Kathryn N. Ramsey Col Frank B. Davisby Mrs. Flora M. Davis Col Jack A. omas, Usaf (Ret) by Maj Sharon K. omas, USAF (RET) COL John Stycos by MAJ Donald B. Read, USA (RET) Col Lee Kennardby Mrs. Mary E. Kennard Col Melvin W. McCoury, Jr. by Mrs. Olive L. McCoury COL omas E. Wehmeyer, USA by Mrs. Gail F. Wehmeyer CPL Arthur T. Grates by TSgt James J. Grates, USAF (RET) CPL Elmer Harms by MSgt Andrew LaFreniere, USAF (RET) Cpl Yasuji Uchima by SFC Richard Y.

Uchima, USA (RET) CPO Valentine Keeley by CDR Joseph Keeley, USN (RET) CPT omas Miller, USA by SFC Frederick D. Hart, USA (RET) CSC John A. Jessen, Jr, USN (RET)

by RM1 John A. Jessen, III, USN (RET) CSM Donald M. Jones, USA by Mrs. Wilma C. Jones CSM Lenord Hedges by SGM William F. Roper, Jr., USA (RET) CSM Robert R. Gibson, USA (RET)

by Mrs. Norene Gibson CSM omas T. Toskin, USA by Mrs. Jean E. Toskin CSM William H. Jones Sr, USA by Mrs. Doris M. Jones CW4 Lewis R. Van Sickle by Mrs. Mary Ellen Van Sinckle CW2 Billie J. Franklin, USA (RET)

by Mrs. Elaine F. Franklin CW4 George Patrick by MAJ Joanne E. Barton, USA (RET) CWO omas R. Merchant by MSG Joseph A. Merchant, USA (RET) Daniel F. Purinton by Mrs. Lili Purinton Danny C. Boltonby Mrs. Audrey E. Bolton Darrell L. Wallace by SFC Danny F. Gilbreath, USA (RET) Dee Crumpler by IC1 Robert Crumpler, II, USN Delores Harris by CSM James Harris, USA (RET) Dick Gumm by Mrs. Geri Gumm Dolaris Sutton by SSG Stanley Kunda, USA (RET) Don Harrington by LTC Frank W. Sherman, AUS (RET) Dortha Wagner by TSgt J. W. Wagner, USAF (RET) Ed Seeley by Ms. A. Glynis Seeley Eddie McGovern & Gibby Gibbons

by LTC Edward C. Slattery, USAF (RET) EdwardFrankHarmonbyMrs.KaryHarmon Edward G. Lare by Ms. Jackie T. Lare Ellen M. Korpi by Maj John J. Korpi, Jr., USAF (RET) Eugene Askenasy by Ms. Judy Askenasy Ezra Berman by Mrs. Rita C. Berman Fabienne Brown by SP6 Larry C. Stephens, USA (RET) Felix Pacheco by SCPO Arthur V. Hernandez, USCG (RET) For all who died or were injured by protecting the USA by Maj Nancy Maneggia-Mcnama, USAF (RET) Frances Lynch by LTC Kenderton S. Lynch, II, USA (RET) Frank V. Hutton by Mrs. Lis O. Hutton Fred Gehrke by SSgt omas E. Barlow, USAF (RET) Fredrick Walters by MSG Ronald Walters, USA (RET) George Luttkus by Mrs. Betty J. Luttkus George W. Houlihanby Mrs. Grace Houlihan Gladys Orland by MSgt Joseph L. Orland, USAF (RET) Gordon Nelson Robbins by Mrs. Marilyn Robbins Grandville, Walter R., Wilbur, Orville & Lewis Smith by SCPO Walter L. Smith, USN (RET) Gus Pippin by SFC Alcine R. Cooper, USA (RET) Guy L. Tull, Sr. by COL Clyde H. Tull, USA (RET) GySgt Herbert C. Seitz by Mrs. Dorothy M. Seitz Harold (Tex) Pruettby Ms. Velma L. Pruett Harold A. Quiggle by SSG Floyd E. Quiggle, USA (RET) Harold D. Myerkord by GEN Ronald H. Griffith, USA (RET) Harry W. Failing and Andrew K. Failing

by Mrs. June E. Failing Hazel Payne by CAPT James G. Payne, Jr., USPHS (RET) Henry Peck Sr. and Ralph Hollingsworth by 1SG Allen R. Korinta, Sr., USA (RET) Herman W. Glover, Jr.by Mrs. Lillie B. Glover Howard Ivy by CW4 Charles R. Fitts, USA (RET) IMCS Joseph J. Ward by Mrs. Ruth Ward Imogene Pence Klingenfus by COL Emil J. Klingenfus, USA (RET) Jack Messer by PN2 Herman H. Whitaker, Jr., USN (RET) Jack Morren by Ms. Meta Morren James C. Clemons by Ms. Sarah Clemons Wilson James G. Williams by Mrs. Eveline A. Williams

James Kenneth Laneby Mrs. Mildred D. Lane JamesN.BrennanbyMrs.MaryE.Brennan James V. Lilly by Mrs. Anna M. Lilly Jaroslav Gajdos by Ms. Charline Gajdos Jarvis Everett by CMSgt Jarvis R. Everett, USAF (RET) Jerome M. Kersting by Ms. Blanche M. Kersting Jesse S. McGee by Mrs. Carol M. Cannon Jimmy Miller by CSM Charles H. Fields, USAR (RET) Jo Denyer by Mr. James R. Adams, Jr. John A. Brown by GySgt Carrison Brown, USMC (RET) John Connell, Jr by MSG John V. Connell, USA (RET) John J. Brelish by Ms. Carol A. Brelish John Mersinger and Mario Mersinger

by Mrs. Maria H. Mersinger John R. Crawley, Jr. by Ms. Ida B. Crawley John Roach by Ms. Phyllis A. Roach John W. Clayton, Sr. by Mrs. Myrna L. Clayton John W. Miller, USAF by Mrs. Edna G. Miller Joseph A. Mosson by Maj Francis Mosson, USAF (RET) Joseph E. Groves by MSgt Dale F. Turner, USAF (RET) Joseph Laamea Odaby Mrs. Edith G. Oda Karen Stewart by CMSgt Edmond O. Cote, USAF (RET) Kenneth Sentieri, WWII by MGySgt Richard K. Sentieri, USMC (RET) Kenneth omas Nevland by Mrs. Mary Arlene Nevland Lawrence Osborne by SFC Cortez S. Osborne, USA (RET) Leonard Fabing by 1SG Anthony R. Saluzzo, USA (RET) Linda & Tim Enloe by MSG Robert M. Enloe, USNG (RET) Lloyd I. Bradford, Srby Mrs. Phyllis Bradford LT Marcus F. Begley by Mrs. Ruby Brown Begley LT Timothy L. Marx by Mrs. Joan M. Marx Wilde LTC Charles C. Woodby Ms. Selva V. Wood LTC George H. Henderson, USA

by LtCol Loretta Henderson, USAFR (RET) LTC Herman Lewis by LTC Carl L. Jones, USA (RET) LTC Richard D. Krug, USA by Mrs. Geraldine F. Krug LTC Samuel J. Garrett, USA (RET)

by Ms. Ruth Ann W. Garrett LTC W. H. C. Walker, USA by SMSgt Colin C. Walker, USAF (RET) LTC William A. DeLorenzo by Mrs. Melania E. DeLorenzo LTC William D. Rickard, USA by Ms. Arlene M. Rickard LtCol Cloyce L. Mangas by Mrs. Norma J. Mangas LtCol Frank P. Scottby Mrs. Mary M. Scott LtCol Johnson L. French, USAF (RET)

by Mrs. Betty J. French LtCol Kenneth G. Framstead, (Ret)

by Mrs. Shirley A. Framsted LtCol Michael McKown by LtCol G. Ray Schoch, USAF (RET) LtCol Milton B. Skelton, USAF by Mrs. Emily E. Skelton LtCol Patrick E. Cross (Ret) by Ms. Bettye J. Cross LtCol Paul A. Bollins by Mrs. Charlotte Lea Bolling LtCol Robert Stitzinger by LTC Robert H. Stitzinger, USA (RET) Maj Delbert G. Kulchak by Mrs. Jana S. Kulchak MAJ Delbert J. Hammoclk (Ret) by Mrs. Dolores D. Hammock Maj George I. Nauby Mrs. Dorothy A. Nau Maj John C. Benson, USAF (RET)

by Ms. Frances W. Benson MAJ Lakin L. Parlett by Mrs. Lavona F. Parlett Maj Megan McClung, USMC by CDR Carliss R. Such, USNR (RET) Maj William P. Haynes, USAF (RET) by 1stLt Elizabeth D. Haynes, USAF (VET) Marie Sobin by PFC Donald W. Sobin, USA (VET) Mason D. Huggins by MSgt James T. Huggins, USAF (RET) MGySgt Norman E. McConnell, USMC

by LTG Billy M. omas, AUS (RET) Michael Ashley by CMSgt Leroy J. Hall, USNG (RET) Michael Juan Hunter by Mrs. Marian

C. Hunter Michael L. Cauble, USA by Mr. Nelson A. Cauble MKCM omas Muchow, USCG by TSgt Robert Markiewicz, Sr., USAF (RET) Mona E. Donahue by MSgt John J. Donahue, USAF (RET) Mrs. Clara O'Malia by SCPO Donald Teague, USN (RET) Mrs. Joyce C. Jerawski by Col Edward A. Jerawski, USAF (RET) Mrs. Rose Kubo by CSM Edward H. Kubo, USA (RET) Mrs. Tomi Dilley by MSgt Walter W. Dilley, Jr., USAF (RET) MSG Tony R. Levdansky, USA by Mrs. Dorothy J. Levdansky MSgt Robert K. Nelson by Ms. Nancy J. Nelson MSgt Tom Eveland by SMSgt James D. Eveland, USAF (RET) MSgt William A. Kern (RET) by Mrs. Marie C. Kern MSgt William J. Adams by Mrs. Donna L. Lenkner Myrtleby SGM Grady W. Smith, USA (RET) Nancy Kast by LtCol Edward T. Kast, USAF (RET) Nasario & Molses Delgado by SSG Alberto L. Delgado, USA (RET) Neal D. Kingery, Jr by TSgt Camellia Patrick, USAF (RET) Noah Challis Booth by CWO-2 Robert S. Booth, USN (RET) Paul F. Amos, USA by MSgt David P. Amos, USAF (RET) Paul W. Keaslerby Mrs. Irmtraud B. Keasler Pedro A. Reyes by SSgt William L. Jauss, USAF (RET) PFC Frank Mele by MSgt William T. Mele, USAF (RET) PFC Joseph A. Vandervest by CW4 Joseph A. Vandervest, Jr., USA (RET) PFC Robert L. Hawkins, USA by MSgt Lewis M. Hawkins, USAF (RET) Phillip R. Wellons by Ms. Candace McConochie & Mrs. Concetta P. Farrington Phyllis M. iring by LTC Florian A. iring, USA (RET) PO3 Arnold B. Vickeryby MAJ Donald B. Vickery, USA (RET) PVT John H. Gibbons, USMC & Harriett E. Gibbons by MGySgt William Gibbions, USMC (RET) PVT Leonard Borghi by LtCol Richard O. Miller, USAF (RET) R. H. Brittsan, USA Air Corp by MSgt Richard Brittsan, USAF (RET) Ralph Rocha by Mrs. Lupe R. Sullivan Ray Mink by TSgt Moses R. Dungan, USAF (RET) Reed W. Nilson by MSG Frank M. Nilson, USA (RET) Richard E. Latham by CAPT Ernest F. Latham, USN (RET) Richard W. Hale by Mrs. Bonita G. Hale Ricky Neese by SMSgt Bruce L. Bollinger, USAF (RET) Robert E. Cummings by Mrs. Gertrude L. Cummings Robert E. Mason Sr.by Mrs. Lena D. Mason Robert G. Kitts by COL Richard A. Kitts, USA (RET) Robert J. Arnoldby Mrs. Geraldine M. Arnold Robert J. Laux and Louis P. Arata by Mrs. Agnes Laux Robert Lacey by MCPO James Wilgis, USN (RET) Robert Nelson Crosby, USA by BMCM omas F. Crosby, USCG (RET) Robert O'Shields by SMSgt Gildardo H. Trevino, USAF (RET) Robert Seitz by Mrs. Mary A. Seitz Ronald L. K. Silva by SSG Ronald L. Silva, USA (RET) Seymour B. Byrom, II by Mrs. Sandra M. Byrom SFC Arthur E. Bosley, USA (RET)

by CSM George A. Bosley, USA (RET) SFC Audis D. Roney, USA (Ret) by Mrs. Elisabeth S. Roney SFC Bill Veltz by Ms. Margaret B. Veltz SFC Harold B. Hart, USA by Ms. Betty J. Hart SFC Herman J. Herman, USA by Mrs. Karin Julian SFC James T. Hamm, USA by Mrs. Eva Hamm SFC Samuel W. White, USA by Mrs. Margot White SGM Len T. Green, USA (RET) by

Mrs. Vera Green SGM William Stone, USAby Mrs. Ilse J. Stone Sgt Frank B. Mundy, Jr. by Mrs. Rosemarie Mundy Sgt Laurence R. Cottrell by Mrs. Joan E. Cottrell SGT Lem G. Mithcell by LTC Bobby R. Jantz, USA (RET) Sgt Philip Sutton by LTC Stanley P. Sutton, USA (RET) Sgt Richard A. Leimbach by MSgt Roger E. Leimbach, USAF (RET) Simon Walesch by WO1 David J. Walesch, USA (RET) SSgt George Berube by SFC Fred L. Berube, USA (RET) Stanley & Clyde Haught by ABEC Gordon R. Haught, USN (RET) Stephen E. Ryder by Mrs. Janette R. Ryder Stephen L. Livengood by Mrs. elma G. Freer Sun Cha Harrington Kocurek by Capt omas P. Kocurek, USAF (RET) e Unknown Soldier by MSG David H. Hansen, USA (RET) eodore Lawton by SGT Kent T. Lawton, USA (RET) omas Fountainby Mrs. Joyce L. Fountain omas W. Martinby Mrs. Elvira A. Martin Timothy D. Wright by LtCol Arthur R. Wright, USMC (RET) To all the ones who did not make it home safe by CW2 Joseph A. Roy, USA (RET) Tom Collins by SP4 Donald R. Collins, USA (VET) TSgt Charles L. O'Neil by LtCol Gary L. Yonke, USAF (RET) TSgt Donald Arrowood, USAF (Ret)

by Mrs. Carolyn Cole Arrowood Uncle Ho by HMC James B. Beyersdorf, USN (RET) Walter White, Jr. by Mrs. Nancy E. White Wayne Cripe and Carl R. Brush by MCPO Richard E. Conrad, USN (RET) William A. Woitteby Mrs. Marianne E. Woitte William C. Weeman, Jr., USA by SFC Kenneth G. Weeman, Sr., USNG (RET) William K. Siglar by Mrs. Lillian M. Siglar William R. Cromeenes by CW4 George E. Oberst, USA (RET) William Warren, Jr.by Mrs. Joan Warren William Winfreeby Mrs. Marilyn M. Winfree Almo J. McCoy by SFC Louis L. McCoy, USA (RET) Amanley omson by TSgt James A. omson, USAF (RET) Anthony Hudson by COL Richard J. Lauttman, USA (RET) Capt eodore W. Pstrak by Mrs. Helen T. Pstrak Charles F. McLaughlin, Jr. & Robert Wymanby Mrs. Ruth E. McLaughlin Charles Wiggins, USN by FTMC Harold L. McComsey, USN (RET) Chester A. Hyde, Jr., USN by COL Barbara Hyde, USAR Claudia by MSgt Edward S. Alviso, Sr., USAF (RET) CMSgt Peter T. Haritos, USAF by Col Dolores J. Haritos, USAF (RET) COL C. K. Moffatt by Mrs. eresa P. Moffatt COL J. R. Menard by Mrs. Carol Menard CPL Mickele Beccia by LTC Louis A. Beccia, USA (RET) David Bernardi, USN (Ret)by Mrs. Debra Bernardi Dewey Dwyerby Mrs. Dorothy A. Dwyer Dominic Q. Cirioni, Jr., USMC by SGT Raymond A. Moreno, ARNG (RET) Francis J. Pataky, Sr., USA by SFC Andrew Pataky, USNG (RET) Franklin Barrett by SSG Ray A. Cummins, USA (RET) Homer S. Renner, Jr.by Ms. Rebecca L. Renner J. R. Edwards by Mrs. Emma Edwards James F. Miller & Matthew B. Piper, Sr.

by Mrs. Lea L. Piper Jasper S. Chepely by Ms. Sue Chepely Jerry Andersonby Mrs. Lorraine M. Anderson Jim Doucett by SCPO Robert Peterson, USN (RET) Joseph B. Cunningham by LtCol Joseph R. Cunningham, USAF (RET) Lane E. De Laraby Mrs. Nancy D. De Lara LT Tamara Backman by CAPT Donald T. Wruble, USPHS (RET) LtCol C. W. Barton by MSgt Peter Barton, USAF (RET) MAJ H. R. McSweeney by Maj

Harold R. McSweeney, USMC (RET) Marvin H. Crewsby Mrs. Ruth E. Crews Michael Robinsonby SFC Robert L. Niccum, USA (RET) MSG James Raycher, (Ret) by SGM James F. Kuhnert, USA (RET) MSG Michael Stearns by SGM Allan F. Deal, USA (RET) MSgtGeraldRodostabyMrs.VernaF.Rodosta MSgt Harrison W. Rogers, USAF (Ret) by Ms. Beatrice Rogers MSgt Howard I. MaLayby Mrs. Ida M. Malay MSgt Raymond S. Gyger by Ms. Margaret Gyger MSgt S Rooney, COL J. F. & J. W. Strain, COL I. G. Walker by CMSgt John A. Rooney, USAF (RET) Nancy E. & Dennis H. Barter by SFC Herbert W. Barter, USA (RET) Norman Davis by MSG Raymond R. Chenault, USA (RET) PFC Carl A. Kimseu by CMSgt Kenneth K. Kimseu, USAF (RET) Raymond Day by LTC Carolee Day, USAR (RET) Robert T. Jenkins by Mrs. Rita Jenkins Roger L. Brown by MSG William B. Brown, USA (RET) SFC Rodney Yanoby CSM Glenn C. Cordeiro, USA (RET) SGT Arthur E. Cassidy, USA & Rebecca Murillo by PO2 Glenn D. Cassady, USN (RET) Sgt Bill Diefenbach by Mrs. Margaret M. Diefenbach SGT Bryan Luckey by CMSgt Robert E. Luckey, Sr., USAF (RET) SGT Ernie K. Vosburg & LTC Fred O. Bennett by CW3 omas F. Bennett, USA (RET) Thomas G. Ziembaby Ms. Marie J. Ziemba TSgt Donald S. Penning, USAF (Ret)

by Mrs. Pearl Penning Unknown by CAPT Ben L. Sloan, USN (RET) Walter Willison by LTC Darryl L. Willison, USA (RET) WO Howard C. Green, USMC by Mrs. Pauline E. Green Young Suk Meyer by SFC Craig A. Meyer, USA (RET) 1stLt Dave Schreiner, USMC by MGySgt Joseph Pelland, Jr., USMC (RET) A forgotten hero by LCDR John J. McCarthy, USNR (RET) Andrew Delosky by SFC Bernard J. Ramirez, USA (RET) Anitaby CSM Arnold Greenberg, USA (RET) Antonia Rodriguez by SGT Joe A. Rodriguez, USA (RET) Beryl J. Black by SFC Daryl M. Black, USA (RET) Bud Caruso by Maj James R. H. Stumpf, USAF (RET) C. W. Starratt by LT Richard C. Starratt, USNR (VET) Capt Darwin Schuelke by CWO3 James W. DiVall, USAF (VET) CAPT Ed Gillespie, USN (Ret)by Col Andrew W. Kendall, USAF (RET) Carol T. Myers by MSgt James D. Myers, USAF (RET) Caroline G. Tait by MG omas H. Tait, USA (RET) Carroll Henry Savage by MSgt James W. Savage, USAF (RET) Charles Lloyd Green by PO1 John T. Green, USN (RET) Classmates 51D by Maj Robert E. Gabosch, USAF (RET) COL Vogentanz by CW4 Phillip Q. Frisko, USA (RET) Col William Richardson, USAF by Mr. Richard L. McKibben Connie French by CAPT Robert C. French, USN (RET) Cpl Charles Parham by SFC omas L. Cope, USA (RET) CPL Elisa Gallegos, USA by LTC Gerald H. Hanson, USA (RET) CPO Donald Nitcher, USN (Ret)by SGM Lowell N. Cobbs, USA (RET) CPO Robert Earl Bochen by CDR Henry C. Boschen, USN (RET) CSM J. Tavilova by MSG William J. McFeeley, USA (RET) CW4 George J. L. Caldwell by MSgt Lloyd C. Callwell, USAF (RET) CWO2 Charlie T. Farlow, Sr. by Mrs. Jacqueline M. Farlow CWO-4 Henry H. Pickrell by CAPT

John H. Pickrell, USNR (RET) CWO4 Wellington B. Long, Jr., USMC

by LTC Ben M. Sugg, Jr., USA (RET) Daniel Scott by MSgt Richard C. Tuttle, USAF (RET) David Huntington by Capt Charles M. Huntington, Jr., USAF (RET) Dennis H. Scarbro, USA by SFC Jimmie W. Scarbro, Sr., USA (RET) Donald James Horton by LtCol Claude J. Hurst, USAF (RET) Dustin J. Harris by SFC Charles Felder, AUS (RET) Ed Ehrenberger by LtCol Edward D. Ehrenberger, USAF (RET) Ed, Ferris, Ray & Manley Grooms by MSgt James M. Grooms, USAF (RET) Edward Heintzman by Maj Ronald N. Hucks, USAF (RET) Elwood Sovey by SFC Zeb Alley, Jr., USA (RET) Ernest M. Lane, USN by BT1 Matthew B. Lane, USN (RET) Eugene W. Wright by CWO-4 Billy E. Wright, USAF (RET) Frances “Tootie" Howland by CWO-4 Ralph C. Howland, USCG (RET) Frank Pazel by SMSgt Dorothy M. Pazel, USAF (RET) George R. Beach & Cecil G. McGuire, Sr.

by CMSgt Cecil G. McGuire, Jr., USAF (RET) Guy, Virgil, Jim, Wes, & Guy T by SMSgt Jack A. Jones, USAF (RET) GySgt Charles O. Sterrett, USMC by CMSgt Ronald E. Sterrett, USAF (RET) Hans Karl Krieger by Sgt H. E. S. Krieger, USAF (RET) Harold Van Lannenby Mr. Charles L. Pierce Harry R. Stevenson, Jr. by CW4 Harry R. Stevenson, USA (RET) Ives & Gladys Lloyd by CAPT Robert C. Lloyd, Jr., USPHS James Davis by MSgt Halle C. Martinez, USAF (RET) James Nasinec by COL Richard S. Grillo, USA (RET) Jo Ann M. Lysak by LTC William Lysak, USA (RET) Joan O'Neill by TSgt Daniel O'Neill, USAF (RET) Joe LaRocca by MSgt Donald C. Langley, USAF (RET) Joe O'Brien by DP1 Robert H. Cook, USN (RET) Joseph Haug by MW4 Donald W. Widman, USA (RET) June Edison by 1SG Charles E. Eidson, USA (RET) Katherine Granado by SFC Santos G. Granado, USA (RET) Leonard Smith by LtCol Kenneth H. Smith, USAF (RET) Lois Darling by LtCol Eugene S. Harsh, USAF (RET) Lonnie J. & Walter J. (Jack) Price by FTM1 J. C. Price, USN (RET) LT Frank H. Robertson, Sr. by LtCol Frank H. Robertson, USAF (RET) LT Jack Esposito, USN by CAPT Phill Fossum, USN (RET) LTC Ellworth (Dutch) Nelsen by Ms. Margo E. Nelsen LTC Joe Eng, USA (Ret) by COL Albert N. Weidhas, Jr., USA (RET) LtCol Juan J. Lins-Morstadt by Mrs. Carol Lins-Morstadt LtCol William A. White by Mrs. Betty R. White LtCol William Kieffer, USAF by Mrs. Marguerite L. Kieffer Mannifred Yates by CMSgt Edward Vance, USAF (RET) Marcus Ray Turner by SFC James C. Moore, USA (RET) Margale Prestipino by LTC Samuel A. Prestipino, USA (RET) Mario Violino by MSG Anthony Violino, USA (RET) Melbourne S., Jr. & Murray Billington

by Mrs. Carolyn P. Billington MSgt Edward K. Walker by Mrs. Frances E. Walker MSgt Gilbert Morales by Mrs. Judith M. Morales-Whitlock MSgt Robert J. MacDuff by A1C John J. Lyons, Jr., USAF (RET) My 10 Combat B-29 Crew by Maj Eugene Frazier, USAF (RET) My Dad by Col William Chavanne, USAF (RET) Nevel Roberts by CMSgt Elmo

Wilson, USAF (RET) Nicholas Tulve, USMC by CSM Nicholas A. Tulve, USA (RET) Otto C. Bonin & Jeffrey Bible by LtCol Jerry F. Bonin, USAF (RET) Our Veterans, past & presently deceased

by YNCM Edward R. White, USN (RET) Paul Davenport by Mrs. Elda Davenport PFC Bagno by PFC David M. Harrod, USA (RET) PFC James Z. Toler by CW3 James M. Toler, USA (RET) PVT Gordon E. Foltz by SSG Darryl R. Foltz, USA (RET) Raymond V. Burke by LtCol Joseph W. Burke, USAF (RET) Rhett B. Smith by CW2 Robin E. Smith, USA (RET) Richard I. Budd, Jr. by Mrs. Valencia T. Martin Budd Robert A. Averyby Mrs. Katharina B. Avery Roger Larson by MSgt Robert A. Larson, USAF (RET) SFC Jack Phinazee, USA (Ret) by SSG Frank Phinazee, USA (RET) Sgt Arthur J. Hunt by Mrs. Lieselotte Hunt Shannon & Jerry Banghart by SMSgt Dallas J. Banghart, USAF (RET) Shirley & LtCol Mike Mills, USAF by LtCol Michael M. Mills, USAF (RET) Shirley Shaul McLeod by RADM Carlton J. McLeod, USN (RET) e Unknown Soldierby Mr. John P. Wright ose who gave all by SFC William M. James, USA (RET) TSgt Trygve Angell, USAF (Ret) by TSgt Trygve Angell, USAF (RET) VADM Harry E. Sears, USN (Ret) by Mrs. Helen M. Sears Vernon R. Durst by LTC Harold E. Durst, USA (RET) W. G. Summers by Mrs. Else Summers William Anthony by SSG Curtis Anthony, USA (RET) William Bernard Wicke by Col Robert Joe Wicke, USAF (RET) William H. Sanders by Mrs. Josiane C. Sanders William J. Holland by CW3 Gerald W. Holland, USA (RET) William P. Long, Sr. by SMSgt William P. Long, USAF (RET) William T. & Bealer T. Rogers, Jr.

by Mrs. Sheila Rogers William, Paul Sr., Leonard, & Carter Shanklin, Roger Buzbee, Carton Burns, & Bernard Tortora by Col Jack A. Buzbee, USAF (RET) Zolan Flynn by Mr. James E. Flynn A Marine! by LtCol Walter J. Wierzbicki, USMC (RET) Alice P. Morris, USNR by LTC William L. Morris, USA (RET) Cina G. Walker by MSgt Robert T. Walker, USAF (RET) CMSgt Charles A. Cunningham, Jr. USAF by Mrs. Shirley L. Cunningham CPL Perry J. Vincent, USA by ETCS Donald P. Vincent, USCG (RET) Duncan Brimner by CDR Russell L. Tupper, II, USNR (RET) Frank J. Crusan by Mrs. Lillian A. Crusan Herbert E. Boyd by BMC Boyne F. Boyd, USCG (RET) John C. Houlihanby Mrs. Nancy K. Houlihan John R. McLaughlin by Mrs. Anna M. McLaughlin John W. Turczin, USN by SMSgt omas R. Janik, USAF (RET) Jose M. Yoshido, USA (Ret) & Antonio Gerardo, USSA (Ret)

by Mrs. Dolores S. Yoshida Leonard Earl Wight by SGM Richard Wight, USA (RET) LTC Bob Marx, USA by MCPO Robert D. Stephens, USCG (RET) MAJ Donald Richissin by Mrs. Helen E. Richissin Marion W. Cannonby Mrs. Lois G. Cannon MRFN Carl Eugene Jackson, USN

by MSG Herschel E. Jackson, USA (RET) MSgt Charles Vind by Ms. Merna Vind MSgt Cloyd T. Whiteby Mrs. Shirley A. White Odell L. Huffmanby Ms. Tanya J. Edwards Robert M. Best by Mrs. Barbara Best Robert Odell Smith by MSgt Albert M. Smith, USAF (RET) Sally Howels by SGT Chester H. Griffis, USA (RET) SFC Colin G. Bennett by Mrs. Sharon L. Bennett

SFC Patterson, USA by MAJ Charles S. Miller, USA (RET) SGT David M. McKeever by SP4 David T. McKeever, USA (VET) Sgt Donald Evans by TSgt Donna A. Geiger, USAF (RET) SSgt Woodrow W. Porter by MSgt Robert D. Porter, USAF (RET) YN3 Gary A. Hein, USN by CAPT Lynn N. Hein, USCG (RET) Aki Francis Clayburn, Jr. by SSG Daniel S. Morales, USA (RET) Alberta Wallace by GySgt Robert L. Wallace, USMC (RET) Alvin L. Dulaney by Mrs. Karen Mary June Dulaney Amy Baker by SSG Merritt H. Baker, USA (RET) Anthony Lewis by SSgt Larry Lewis, USAF (RET) Barry E. Barker, Sr. by MSgt Clifford H. Campbell, USAF (RET) BT1 W. R. Cox, USN by SSG C. D. Cox, USA (RET) Capt Roy G. Burnettby Mrs. Susan J. Burnett Charles E. Rickett by Mrs. Betty L. Rickett Charles Moufradi by LtCol Paul G. Bellia, USAF (RET) Clion V. & Fred D. Andrews by Mrs. Laverne S. Andrews CPO Stanley R. Barski by Dona L. Barski, USN (RET) CSM Donald O. Ellis, USAF (Ret)

by CMSgt David L. Ellis, USAF (RET) CWO K. & SGT E. Coleman by 1SG Kennie L. Coleman, Sr., USA (RET) CWO-4 Kenneth H. Laubach, USN (Ret)

by Mrs. Carolyn L. Laubach David omas Melchi by Ms. Margaret A. Melchi Elden Skaggs by SFC Fernando Pereida, USA (RET) Eva C. Lash by SGM Raymond A. Lash, USA (RET) Flynn Loback by CW3 C. J. Loback, USA (RET) Fred ompson by LtCol Arthur R. ompson, Jr., USAF (RET) Gerald Himmel by MSG Donald E. Hydorn, Sr., USA (RET) Helene C. Reichenbecher by 1SG Marta C. Reichenbecher, USA (RET) Henry D. Eidenby Mrs. Margaret E. Eiden Hunter Hughes by MSgt Joseph C. Hughes, USAF (RET) Jack Young by Mrs. Marilyn J. Young James F. Avery by Mrs. Betty M. Freeman James J. McGilloway by Mrs. Elizabeth F. McGilloway Jenny E. Emenhiser by SSG Edward C. Emenhiser, USA (RET) John Soloby Mrs. Margarete E. Solomanchik Keith Elliston by Ms. Audrey L. Lucke Kenneth Buchholz by MAJ Richard H. Buchholz, USA (RET) Larry Lenz by SSgt James A. Buck, USAF (RET) LCpl Steven Walter Szwydek, USMC

by SFC James D. Gilbert, USA (RET) Lewis William Barrett by MSgt Paul E. Barrett, USAF (RET) Louis J. Fiorgazano by LTC Vincent J. Como, USA (RET) MAJ Dan L. Phillipsby Mrs. Monta S. Phillips MAJ Lynn E. Jenkins, USA (Ret) by LTC Elizabeth G. Tullis, USA (RET) Marcella Smith by SSG Robert L. Smith, USA (RET) Marilyn Worcester by SGM Verrill R. Worcester, Jr., USA (RET) Martin G. Randecker by Mrs. Gisela E. Randecker MSgt Everett Marshall by TSgt Walter J. Bank, USAF (RET) Oren Rich by PO1 Stephen A. Rich, USN (RET) Paul Suggs by PO1 Harold F. Lindsey, USCG (RET) Raymond & Richard Ollivares by Maj Alfonso Ollivares, USAF (RET) Richard L. Clementsby Mrs. Ivy J. Clements Richard P. Lawrence by Mrs. Gertrude C. Lawrence Robert May, USAF by Ms. Eileen M. May Robert W. Cox by LTC James R. Cox, USA (RET) Ronnie W. Parkerby Mrs. Cherry L. Parker Ruben A. Pfeifle by Mrs. Olga M. Pfeifle Sam Booher, Sr., USMC by LTC Sam W. Booher, USA (RET) SGT Eric McCloskey by TSgt

Fernando A. Baca, USAF (RET) SMSgt Edward Wyngaert by Fransena M. Wyngaert, USA SMSgt Ray Swanson by MSgt Harry E. Stegall, USAF (RET) SSG Gilbert Henigan by Mrs. Barbara Henigan SSgt James A. Dayby 1SG Louis D. Bottini, USA (RET) TSgt Arthur L. Tillman, USAF

by Ms. Madie L. Tillman TSgt James M. Highby Mrs. A. Larene High TSgt Jan & CPL Andrew Gale

by Mrs. Joan Gale Wesley W. Sawyer, Jr., USAF (Ret)

by Capt William F. Sawyer, USMC (RET) 1st Cav A 5 Regt 1951 all KIA, WIA, & MIAby MSG Robert L. Frantz, USA (RET) 1stLt E. H. Hamm, Jr. & MSgt C. E. Hamm

by CPO Eugene H. Hamm, USN (RET) Aiko Houghton by MSgt Richard W. Houghton, USAF (RET) All Patriots by CPO Nevylle L. Smith, USN (RET) All those who have served and sacrificed

by TSgt William B. Breen, USAF (RET) Angela Wallace by CW4 Terrell R. Wallace, USA (RET) Arion F. Smith by Mrs. Anne R. Smith Arlow Drewelow, USMC by1SG Michael A. Drewelow, USA (RET) Arthur Wayne Corleyby Mrs. Ella R. Corley BMC Robert H. Merchant, USN by CPO Robert H. Merchant, USN (RET) Capt Charles Dwight Zachary, USAF (Ret)

by Capt Priscilla Zachary, USAF (RET) Capt Harold Myron Dean by Ms. Oanh N. Dean Capt Melvin Scherer, USMC by Mrs. Shelva J. Scherer Capt omas L. Distel by Mrs. Margaret Distel CDR eodore E. Curtis, USN by Ms. Bernice E. Curtis CDR Wendel T. McCoy, MSC, USN

by CDR Tom McCoy, USN (RET) Cecil A. Grist by SCPO Arthur K. Grist, USCG (RET) Charles by MAJ Roy Gersten, USA (RET) Charles Fowler & John Mullin by Mrs. Lucille F. Mullin CMSgt Jack H. Barnes by Mrs. Glynna J. Barnes Col James L. Weaver, USAF by Mrs. Maria E. Weaver COL Lewis V. Edner, USA by Mrs. Mary I. Edner Conrad Sova by SFC Raymond L. Pavlik, USA (RET) Corp Frederick H. Zehe by TSgt Ernest H. Handy, USAF (RET) CPT Phillip Esposito by LTC Michael J. Kelly, USNG (RET) CPT Willaim Barnard, USA by Ms. Sarah Barnard CW2 Charles R. Ratcliff by Mrs. Dawn E. Ratcliff CW4 Joseph W. Connery by COL Joseph W. Connery, Jr., USA (RET) CW4 Kenneth Orban, (Ret) by Mrs. Janette Orban Debbie Finley by MAJ John E. Finley, Jr., USA (RET) Douglas by Mrs. Nancy Kosan Douglas R. Truhlar by Ms. Alice J. Truhlar Douglas Tanaka by SFC Robert T. Tanaka, Jr., USA (RET) E. E. Blackwell by Ms. Carol A. Blackwell Edmond Lynaghby Mrs. Gertrud H. Lynagh Edward Cunningham by SMSgt Robert H. Cunningham, USAF (RET) Ernest L & Richard M. Molock by Mrs. Missouri Molock Eugene H. Moeller & Maurice B. Garlow

by Mrs. Barbara Moeller-Garlow Gail Magleby by CMSgt Don L. Mattonen, USAF (RET) George Morgan by CW4 Roland E. Horn, USA (RET) Glen Layton by MSgt George M. Robillard, USAF (RET) Herman Miletzki by CPO Daniel White, Jr., USCG (RET) Ira J. Smith by Mrs. Gretchen A. Smith Ivaloe V. Tether by CWO-4 Charles E. Tether, USN (RET) James H. Taylorby Ms. Barbara Gay Taylor James L. Johnson, Sr. by SGM Richard S. Johnson, USA (RET) James P. Schahill by CSM Earl J. Smythe, Jr., USA (RET)

James Robert Gemmill by COL James G. Scott, USA (RET) Jerry Peritatko by SGT Bernie Klemanek, USA (RET) John F. Crowley, Sr. by BMCS John F. Crowley, Jr., USCG (RET) John Troy Mills by Mrs. Elaine G. Mills John W. Malone by Mrs. Lily Malone Joseph W. Clark by Ms. Maxine L. Clark Joseph Wallace Gregg, Sr. by Mrs. Annie Kate C. Gregg, R.N. Lawrence Hunt by Col Harry A. Whitaker, Jr., USAF (RET) LCpl Forbis Durant, USMC by MSgt Paul D. Perry, USAF (RET) LT John E. Walker, USN by Mrs. Patricia L. Walker LtCol Albert S. Borchick, Jr. (Ret) & LtCol Albert S. Borchick, III, (Ret)

by Ms. Sally W. Borchik LtCol Bert Haight, USMC by SMSgt Omer W. Entel, USAF (RET) LtCol Charles C. Johnson by Mrs. Mary E. Johnson LtCol Lloyd T. Navarro, USAF (Ret)

by Ms. Sylvia A. Navarro LtColRobertJ.NevesbyMrs.KathleenT.Neves MAJ Charles Landrieby Mrs. Ursula I. Landrie Martha L. King by MCPO John E. King, USN (RET) Mary G. Garza by SFC Albert F. Garza, USA (RET) Melvin E. Holtz by TSgt James M. Holtz, USAF (RET) Melvin Sharp by SSG Richard E. Sharp, USA (RET) Merrill Bowers by SCPO Rodney C. Bowers, USN (RET) Michael Paul Badget by Mrs. Dorina B. Badget MSG Michael L. DeMarco by SSG Genaro Vargas, ARNG (RET) MSgt Harved Desverney by Mrs. Anni Desverney MSgt Hoyle L. Lucas by Ms. Lee M. Lucas MSgt Roland C. Gary by Mrs. Leona M. Gary Nora Ward by MSG William L. Ward, Jr., USA (RET) Patrick Murphyby Mrs. Patricia A. Murphy Paul John McGrane by Ms. Lorraine R. McGrane PFC Ernest L. Matthews, Jr., USA by Mrs. Lela D. Matthews PFC Lester Smith by LTC Winford C. Fowlkes, USA (RET) Raymond L. West by AXCS Raymond T. West, USN (RET) Robert L. Johnstoneby Mrs. Opal L. Johnstone Robert W. Kutz, Sr. by Ms. Irmgard J. Kutz Roy F. Millerby SSG Ira W. Miller, USA (RET) Roy H. Kanemotoby CW3 Kenzo Kanemoto, USA (RET) Russell O. Perkinsby Ms. Virginia H. Perkins SFC Peter J. Romankiw, USA by Mrs. Jean M. Romankiw SFC Richard L. Vane, USAby Ms. Joy L. Vane SFC omas J. Wichman, USA by Mrs. Joan Wichman SGM Herbert H. Parker, USA (Ret)

by Mrs. Kayoko Parker Shelby Jean Gour by SFC Robert A. Gour, USA (RET) Silvio Carravagio by CW4 Robert L. Connors, USA (RET) omas W. Banks by Mrs. Jeanette Banks TSgt Allen Barningham, USAF by Mrs. Marlene T. Barningham Vic Limbaga by Mrs. Matilde I. Limbaga Allen Betchal by LTC Charles M. Durham, USA (RET) Arnie Scarbrough by MCPO John B. Scarbrough, USCG (RET) CDR John T. Goodwin by MSgt Robert D. Goodwin, USAF (RET) Charles W. & Junior R. Cross by MCPO Willard E. Cross, USN (RET) Cheryl N. Brownby Ms. Barbara A. Brown Clara & Manuel Alameida by Mrs. Patricia A.K. McDermott-Sagon CPO John Butler, USN by CWO-3 Frank L. ompson, USN (RET) CWO3 Ted Lucius Untalan by SFC Manuel A. Untalan, USA (RET) Daniel F. Mumbower, Jr. by SFC Thomas M. Mumbower, Sr., USA (RET) Dorothy (Dody) by LtCol Ralph F. Roscoe, USAF (RET) Elmer Leroy Keene by LtCol Barbara A. Cummings, USAF (RET) Florance Conrad by TSgt Harold M.

Conrad, USAF (RET) Foy Martin by Mrs. Barbara C. Martin Frances C. Prescott by 1SG James A. Prescott, USA (RET) Harayo Fujishigo by MSgt Richard M. Fujishigo, USAF (RET) J. B. Bradshaw, USN by MSG James F. Bradshaw, USA (RET) James B. Stroud, Sr. by SFC James B. Stroud, Jr., USA (RET) Jerry W. Furr by Mrs. Ann F. Furr John P. Proctor by LtCol Francis G. Proctor, USAF (RET) John W. Burrows by 1SG Shirley A. Anderson, USA (RET) Joseph Bozzuto by CPL Alphonse Avitabile, USA (RET) Joseph H. Kohl by Mrs. Inez R. Kohl Lawrence F. ompson by MSgt David L. ompson, USAF (RET) Leo C. Chase, Jr. by SMSgt Willie V. Floyd, USAF (RET) LeRoy B. DeBoe, USN by Mrs. Helene Von Paugh De Boe LottieRobersbyLTCAlfredRobers,USA(RET) LTC Jerry Heupleby Mrs. Margie C. Heuple Minoru Tanaka by Mrs. T. Betty Shishido MMC Richard N. Morrow, USN by Mrs. Lorraine A. Morrow MSgt Donald O. Goates by Mrs. Jill Goates Myrna Jayne Schliebe by SP4 Le Roy Jacob Gugel, USA (VET) PO1 omas A. Dekker, USNR (Ret)

by Mrs. Evelyn E. Dekker Raymond Elliott, Sr.by Mr. omas L. Shorter Raymond Maesby CMSgt Jack Henderson, USAF (RET) Richard K. Maxson by PFC Gordon F. Smith, USMC (VET) Robert Brooks by LTC omas E. Parsons, USA (RET) Robert E. Shufordby Mrs. Sheila D. Shuford Ronald Cantrell by LtCol Clayton H. Northup, USAF (RET) Sara Ann Smith by TSgt Jack Terry, USAF (RET) SGT V. A. Gilbertson, USAby COL Jan C. Mennig, Ph.D., USA (RET) omas E. Lane by MSG Freddie H. Sebren, USA (RET) TSgt Robert L. Beam, USAF by Mrs. Patricia J. Beam Web Shroyer by LTC Terry W. Shroyer, USA (RET) William (Porky) & Grant U. Brown by CMSgt George E. Brown, USAF (RET) All members of the CO B 20th A1B, 10th AD by MSG Larry D. Frith, Sr., USA (RET) All MIA's by LTC Charles W. Welch, USA (RET) All the Marines who didn't get home

by Sgt John O'Rourke, USMC (VET) All who sacrificed by SFC James Allen, USA (RET) Arden J. Jensen by SGM Jerry O. Jensen, USA (RET) Billy Ray Mitchell by SFC Robert L. Taylor, USA (RET) Cecil Dripps by 1stSgt Wilbert L. Dripps, USA (RET) Cleary Allan Hathaway by 1SG Richard G. Miller, USA (RET) CMSgt Peter D. Fargey, USAF

by Mrs. Maryellen F. Fargey COL Edgar H. Simpson by Mrs. Patsy H. Simpson COL Jack J. Mooreby Ms. Edna M. Monroe CPT Logan B. Hull, USA by Capt Logan B. Hull, USAF (RET) CW2 Maurice Blindskog by Ms. Klara Lindskog CW4 Louis A. Dnkle, Jr. by Mrs. Shirley A. Dinkle David Evans by Mrs. Mary M. Evans Donald (Donnie) Lange by SMSgt Richard M. Lange, USAF (RET) Edgar J. Williams, USAF by Mrs. Margaret E. Williams Edwin F. Russell, Sr. by MGySgt Charles L. Russell, USMC (RET) Freddie A. High by Mrs. Hilda P. High Frederick R. Starr by Mrs. Frances W. Starr Fundador Davila by Mrs. Inocencia Davila George F. Reagan by TSgt Maurice H. Reagan, USAF (RET) Herman F. Wharryby Mrs. Arletta N. Wharry In all wars - POW/MIA by 1stSgt Alfred Jainnini, Sr., USMC (RET) Jack Martin by CMSgt William T. Scheibel, USAF (RET)

James E. Tinsley by SFC Walter F. ompson, USA (RET) Jery Secrestby SGT John A. Secrest, USA (RET) John K. Pattersonby Mrs. Helga R. Patterson Kenneth Lee Franksby Ms. Grace E. Franks Kristopher W. Eggleby Mr. Robert J. Eggle, Jr. Larry G. Cauliflower by Mrs. Luisa M. Cauliflower Madfred W. Krause by SGM Helmut Jatho, USA (RET) MAJ Albert Domoney by MSG Jack E. Domoney, USA (RET) Marvin H. Serenoby Mrs. Beatrix L. Sereno Maureen Mosecki by COL John A. Mojecki, USA (RET) Mely Padlan by PO1 Victoriano Padlan, USN (RET) Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Clark by COL Robert H. Clark, USA (RET) MSgt Elliott Link by MSG Oliver B. Ballentine, USA (RET) MSgt Marcelino D. Garcia by Ms. Esperanza G. Garcia Pervin T. Crick by LtCol Robert T. Crick, USAF (RET) Ross Argus Lane & Andrew Beauchesne

by SSG Ruth E. Beauchesne, USA (RET) Samuel B. Lutzby SFC R L. Lutz, USA (RET) SGT Carl Henry Burleson by Mrs. Carol I. Burleson SGT Ralph Walters, USA by MSgt Donald E. Walters, USAF (RET) T. W. Peterson, Shurld Hinkle, & Bill Baileyby TSgt Gary L. Hinkle, USAF (RET) Victoriano Narciso, Jr. by Ms. Marcelina Narciso VP-50 Aircra 9 crew by ADC J. D. Kingcade, USN (RET) VT 84 Casualties CV17 USS Bunkerhill

by Col John H. Cloyes, USAF (RET) Wilburn Root by MSgt Michael L. Root, USAF (RET) 2LT Quentin Teige by Maj Ronald R. Olson, USAF (RET) A2C William S. Herman by SMSgt Robert E. Herman, USAF (RET) ABHi Lawrence Melvin Golbert, Jr., USN

by Ms. Catherine D. Colbert Albert Seegerby Mrs. Audrey L. Klepadlo Alice Kenline by CAPT Paul A. Kenline, USPHS (RET) All that served by SGT Darrel Chestnut, USNG (RET) Anna Mergeault by SGM Walter A. Finch, USA (RET) Anthony Tagliaterro & Dominick Sive

by Maj Emanuel R. Sive, USAF (RET) Arthur H. Land by LTC Henry A. Douglas, USA (RET) Beacher Rhodes by MSgt Marcel J. Depersig, USMC (RET) Benjamin Tatanus by LtCol Joyce A. Tatanus, USAF (RET) Beverly J. Hudson-Branton by CMSgt Maurice A. Hudson, USAF (RET) Billy Whitey & Angelo Mancuso by Mrs. Patricia D. Mancuso BMC Pedro S. Castroby Ms. Ana A. Castro Capt Charles J. Brennan, USMC by Mrs. Oletha Brennan Capt Mary T. Klinker, TSgt Denning C. Johnson, & SSgt Michael G. Paget

by Maj John E. Lothes, USAF (RET) CAPT T. Dewitt Carr, USN by BG Walter E. Adams, USA (RET) CDR Willie McCool, USN by CPO Albert C. Vallejos, USN (RET) Charles E. Angell & Dale E. Kipple

by SMSgt Dale E. Kipple, USAF (RET) Charles J. Merrill by MCPO Richard C. Merrill, USCG (RET) Charlie Darr by SFC Ernest L. Hunkins, USA (RET) Clifford M. Jordan by CWO-3 Larry D. Jordan, USCG (RET) Clifford R. Meyer by Mrs. Gertrude M. K. Meyer CMSgt George T. Stocks, USAF by Mrs. Peggy L. Stocks CMSgt James L. Nichols, USAF by CWO-4 Robert E. Nichols, USCG (RET) CMSgt Nelson Cross, USAF by CMSgt Ira J. Shackelford, USAF (RET) COL James J. Scally, USA (Ret) by Mrs. Patricia J. Scally Col John D. Hamilton, Sr. by Mrs. Kathryn Ruth Hamilton Col Loren D. Buttolph by LtCol Richard D. Buttolph, USMC (RET) Col Van D. Bell, USMC (Ret) by 1stSgt Harry G. Oldland, USMC (RET)

CPO Charles E. Foxwell by SSgt Robert G. Foxwell, USAF (RET) CPT Frank Bryan by LTC William E. Whitworth, Sr., USA (RET) CPT Holm, LT McQuade, SPL Hartley

by SGM Herbert F. Nosaka, USA (RET) CSM Elmer Fitzsimmons, Jr., USA (Ret)

by Mrs. Chalor Fitzsimmons Curtis N. Smith by Mrs. Dorothy A. Smith CW3 Frank N. Holton by Mrs. Carol E. Holton CW4 Delbert W. Roberts by COL Grace L. Roberts, USA (RET) CW4 Grover W. Brooks by Mrs. Gudrun P. Brooks CWO-4 James Gordon, USN by SMSgt James Gordon, USAF (RET) CWO4 James K. Phillipsby Mrs. Zoie Phillips Cyrus Lancel Williams by Mrs. Tempie H. Williams Daniel L. Durga by Mrs. Rozanne F. Durga Darrell R. Oliver by Ms. Maggie E. Oliver David Wisnaes by Ms. Barbara J. Wisnaes Dean A. Garrett by Ms. Margaret J. Garrett Dennis E. Drebertby Ms. Marie C. Drebert Don G. Parker by PO1 James Parker, USN (RET) Eddie Bachelder by SFC Dail G. Bachelder, USA (RET) Edward N. Kendrick by Mrs. Geneva H. Kendrick Edward Snow Windle, USN by TSgt Robert S. Windle, USAF (RET) Edwin Campbellby Mrs. Beatrice Campbell F. N. (Fae) Burgessby Mrs. Maurine D. Burgess Francoise Bradley by PO1 James K. Bradley, USN (RET) Frederick C. Beckerby Mrs. Dagmar E. Becker G. P. Corvin by LtCol Robert E. Baldauf, USAF (RET) George & Shirley Reed by MSgt omas G. Reed, USAF (RET) George C. Wise by Mrs. Nancy E. Wise George Curtis Dumas by LTC George C. Dumas, USA (RET) George J. A. Walker by Mary Frances Walker, USAF George Washington by Maj Peter B. Mills, USAF (RET) Gertrude Irmgard by SSG David E. Rench, USA (RET) Gilbert Wright by MSG Richard H. Gates, USA (RET) Girley S. Miller by HTC Richard G. Leland, USN (RET) H. E. Sprecher by Mrs. June E. Sprecher Harless family by Maj Billy W. Harless, USAF (RET) Harold Stimel by Mrs. Estelle Stimel Harry L. H. Gigousby Mrs. Berdette Gigous Harvey R. Sims, Jr. by SMSgt omas C. Simms, Sr., USAF (RET) Henry Spencer by MSG Robert K. Morton, USA (RET) Hildergard I. Kelker by SFC Carl C. Kelker, USA (RET) Jack Dale Crawford by Mrs. Agnes L. R. Crawford Jack Kennon McNutt by Mrs. Jasmin McNutt James Propp, USA by Mrs. Maria Propp James Robert Lipscomb by Mrs. Elfriede Lipscomb James W. King by Mrs. Lela B. King Jesse Bennermon by Ms. Willie M. Bennermon Jessie Gordon by MSG Dalton M. Gordon, Sr., USA (RET) John B. Bordenby Mrs. Rosemary I. Borden Johnny B. Elliott by Ms. Alberta B. Elliott Jose Concepcion by SGM Edward Concepcion, USA (RET) Kelly Loraine Bullard Unrue by TSgt Michael E. Bullard, USAF (RET) Les Bolin by Mrs. Velma J. Bolin Lincoln Sawyer by SMSgt Gray Taylor, USAF (RET) Louis R. Capoferriby Mrs. Janice D. Capoferri LT Elizabeth Collins by COL Shirley A. Schelper, USA (RET) LTC John Stonebuner by LTC Francis Leroux, USA (RET) LTC Robert P. Dominguez, USA (Ret)

by Col Jesse P. Dominguez, USAF (RET) LtCol Clinton C. Gelzheiser by Ms. Shirley G. Gelzheiser LtCol Sam H. Rankin, Jr. by Mrs. Irene K. Rankin LtCol eodore G. Ramsdell, USAF (Ret)

by MSgt eodore C. Ramsdell, USAF (RET) LTJG Tyson H. Mewborn, USNR by

SSgt John H. Mewborn, USAF (RET) Lucille Hester by CSM Jesse W. Hester, USA (RET) Ludwig J. Barry by Mrs. Evelyn M. Barry MAJ Donald L. Strong, (Ret) by Ms. Glenda A. Strong Maj Myron E. omas, USAF by Mrs. Charlotte L. omas MG Robert P. Young & MG Emmett J. Bean by Ms. Bettye J. Young MSG Donald E. Dickerson, USA (Ret)

by Mrs. Gail P. Dickerson MSG James M. Morgan by Ms. Margarete T. Morgan MSG Norman R. Ball by MSG Ealy M. Black, USA (RET) MSgt Coy Large by Mrs. Martha B. Large MSgt Johnnie M. Duke, USAF by Mrs. Annie M. Duke Nicholas Capinas by LtCol Joseph Como, USMC (RET) Nicholas R. Huley by 1SG Andrew Huley, Jr., USA (RET) Parker B. Blake, Jr. by Mrs. Penny Blake Paul S. Renschen by LTC Paul S. Renschen, USA (RET) Pete Negranti by MSG Allen E. Watson, USA (RET) PFC Joseph A. Cruz, USMC by MSG Victoria R. Laganse, USA (RET) Robert Collins Finlayson by Ms. P atricia J. Finlayson Robert E. Herronby Mrs. Rosemarie Herron Robert E. Vaugh, USN by LCDR Harold J. Vaughn, USN (RET) Robert M. Bissellby Mrs. Marjorie A. Bissell Robert W. Sandersby Mrs. Mercedes Sanders Roger E. McClelland by SGM Robert L. Wallace, USA (RET) Ronald G. Johnston by Mrs. Eunice E. Johnston Roscoe Rufus Sharpe by CW4 Roscoe J. Sharpe, USA (RET) Sammy Alcarion by BM1 George Padua, USN (RET) SFC Alfred B. Nauta, USA (Ret)

by MSG Peter J. Nauta, USA (RET) SFC Fernando Toro, USAby Ms. Justine Toro SFC Robert D. Maddox, USA by Mrs. Betty A. Maddox SGM George M. Depoy

by Ms. Charlotte A. Depoy SGM Ronald G. Cool, USA (Ret)

by Mrs. Shirley T. Cool Sgt Eliseo Cardenasby Mrs. Otilia M. Cardenas SGT James E. Williams, (Ret)

by Mrs. Mary Ann Williams Sgt omas Segovia by SGT omas Segovia, Jr., USA (RET) Sgt William O. Brown by SFC Andrew W. Brown, Jr., USA (RET) SgtMajAubreySpurlockbyMs.WilmaSpurlock SMSgt Dennis L. Bowling, USAF (Ret)

by SMSgt Dennis L. Bowling, USAF (RET) SSG R. D. Pittman by SFC Clyde G. Bell, USA (RET) SSG Roger C. Turner, Jr. by Mrs. Teresa L. Turner SSgt Colleen K. Kretschmar by MSgt James R. Kretschmar, USAF (RET) SSgt Edward E. Morgan by CMSgt Garland E. Morgan, USAF (RET) Steart McClendon by SGT Alan V. Vaskas, USA (RET) Tellis Seay by Col William H. Weaver, Jr., USAF (RET) Unknown Soldiers by SSG Joseph J. Guzman, USA (RET) Victor A. Williams by CW3 Stuart D. Ford, USA (RET) Victoriano R. Cocson by Mrs. Trinidad B. Cocson Virginia Fede Cole by PO1 Frank Fede, Jr., USN (RET) Warren D. Miller, USCG (Ret)

by Ms. Marion A. Miller William Horton by LT William P. Buzhardt, USN (RET) William J. DeForest, Jr. by Mrs. Shirley J. De Forest William M. Dagg by Mrs. Delores K. Dagg Willie Clyde Wylie by Ms. Elizabeth Wylie 1LT Harry Kenneth Oholendt by COL Charles E. Bradford, USA (RET) Albert Salvati by Maj John W. Briggs, USAF (RET) Anna Mudrak by MSG Stuart L. Mudrak, USA (RET) Arthur A. Barry by Mrs. Caroline M. Barry Billie R. Gupton by SMSgt Howard L. Gupton, USAF (RET)

Bud A. Mason by CMSgt Richard D. Mason, ANG (RET) CW4 James E. Webb, (Ret) by Mrs. Alice M. Webb Donald M. Call by MG Stephen E. Nichols, USA (RET) Doris E. Miller by SGM Robert H. Miller, USA (RET) Ed Gallagher by Col William M. Faust, USAF (RET) Edward A. Adamo by Col Joseph Adamo, USAF (RET) Herman Sobul, M.D. by COL Samuel M. Sobol, USA (RET) Howard S. Perry by COL Howard Perry, III, USA (RET) James Clark by SgtMaj Charles F. Smith, USMC (RET) James Nugent by 1SG Raymond J. Caroselli, USA (RET) Joseph McLean by SGT Kenneth R. McLean, USA (RET) Joseph R. Bartolutti by LtCol Leonard F. Bartolutti, USAF (RET) Kenard Sands by MSG Corey A. Sands, Jr., USA (RET) La Naw Nicholson by VADM John H. Nicholson, USN (RET) MSgt James omas Lyles by Ms. Georgia F. Lyles Nestor A. Richard by MSgt Eugene N. Richard, USAF (RET) Oscar A. Davenport, USAF (Ret) by SFC Kenneth R. Davenport, USA (RET) Pamela Geyer-Rayburn by Mrs. Jean M. Riddle SSgt Roger Lee by MSgt Robert H. Pickett, Jr., USAF (RET) Vincente Camacho Blas Ensulor by PO2 Jose M. Mabayag, Jr., USN (VET) William Fosman by CMSgt Herbert J. Fosman, USAF (RET) William W. Neal by Mrs. Helga Neal 1SG Jim W. Lindley by Mrs. Mary Lindley All killed in Vietnam by CWO4 Gerard R. Kessens, USN (RET) All who died in Vietnam by LtCol R. Richard Mulder, USAF (RET) Elfriede Johnson by MSG Leslie Johnson, USA (RET) Goldie E. Buckles by SSG Fred E. Buckles, USA (RET) Gordon Moisley by 1stLt Helen M. Dahl-Moisley, USA (VET) Harold Archie Wilber & George Manko

by SSG Richard D. Wilber, ARNG (RET) Jack Von Rembow by CMSgt Joe S. Von Rembow, USAF (RET) Jan Mooney by CDR Donald A. Mooney, USCG (RET) Joseph Harrison by Ms. Regina Harrison Luis Montero by SFC Raymond R. Soto, USA (RET) Maj Robert A. Blakely, USAF (Ret) by LtCol Lorraine M. Blakely, USAF (RET) Martha F. Young by MSG Tolbert Young, Jr., USA (RET) MSG Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. by Mrs. Sybil S. Stephenson Rosine Asmussen by SGM William Asmussen, USA (RET) Sadie L. Mobley by PFC William P. Nation, USA (VET) SFC Delano, USA by SFC Bobby Norton, USA (VET) Steve Hartness by Mrs. Frances Ratliff TSgt James R. Schumacher, USAF (Ret) by TSgt James R. Schumacher, USAF (RET) William Hagan by Mr. Wayne A. Wolfenkoehler William Smith by CAPT Donald D. Smith, USPHS (RET) 1stSgt James F. Wigginsby Mrs. Lois L. Wiggins Ada Antonieta Grapes by LtCol Elton J. Grapes, USAF (RET) Air Force Nurses by Col Christine Spivey, USAF (RET) All our brave heros! by TSgt Cleda A. Loper, USAF (RET) Barbara J. Porter by LTC Donald C. Porter, USA (RET) Capt Waldemar H. Luehlfing by Mrs. W. H. Luehlfing CSM Al Kaczmorrek, USA by SGM Chester Goscicki, USA (RET) Donald Robert Burnsby Ms. Norma L. Burns Douglas A. Moffitt by Mrs. Dorothy M. Moffitt Eddie Bauer by LtCol Robert L. Gardner, USAF (RET) Franklin D. Roosevelt by SSgt Ray

Williams, USAF (RET) Franklin Schickram by TSgt Martin Schickram, USNG (RET) Fred Soriano by Mrs. Encarnacion Soriano Gilbert Sanchez by Ms. Candy Sanchez Harry Rempel by MSgt Ralph W. Harper, USNG (RET) J. Scott Huey, USMC by MSgt Jack D. Huey, USAF (RET) Kay L. Sherfy by Ms. Rosemarie Sherfy Leons Teivans by CW2 Klaus Wallis, USA (RET) Louise Burt by Col John W Burt, USAF (RET) LT Joseph Horganby BM1 Michael J. Horgan, USNR (RET) LTC Harold A. Biddix, USA by Ms. Mary L. Biddix LtCol Clyde W. Hill by Mrs. Evelyn E. Hill LtCol Jack D. Billingsley, (Ret) by Mrs. Elisabeth A. Billingsley MAJ Matthew J. Ryan, USA by Mrs. Elsie M. Ryan Margaret (Pet) Chenoweth by SMSgt Roy W. Chenoweth, USAF (RET) Mr. & Mrs. Louis M. Parlati by Capt Edward S. Parlati, USAF (RET) MSgt Robert L. Woodward by Mrs. Nancy I. Woodward Norma Brandenburg by TSgt Jared B. Brandenburg, USAF (RET) Rachel Napier by MSG Lloyd Napier, USA (RET) Richard C. Long by SSG Jon R. Long, USA (RET) Richard Y. Tabe by Mrs. Frances S. Tabe Robert C. Munro, USCG by Mrs. Dorothea V. Munro Robert Moss Kirby by Mrs. Anita C. Kirby SFC James J. Sanderson, USA by Mrs. Dortha A. Sanderson SGT Douglas Smith by SMSgt Raymond I. Smith, USAF (RET) SK2 W. M. (Buck) Ward, USN by LT Ramona K. Garcia, USN (RET) Stanley Billings by TSgt John S. Billings, USAF (RET) Unknown by LCDR Billy N. Jones, USN (RET) Willis Shoemaker by CSM Harley M. Carriger, USA (RET) Bert Hashimoto by Mrs. Laura M. Hashimoto Brandon Foerster by SFC Donald R. Foerster, USNG (RET) Harold McClanhan by CPO Paul W. Morford, USNR (RET) Lamar Alewine by Mrs. Susan M. Alewine MAJ V. K. Bane, USA (Ret)by MSG Ronald E. Bane, USA (RET) MAJ William Ford by Mr. Edward L. Wyche Rexford Anderson by Mrs. Lynette M. Anderson omas Eckel by 1SG omas T. Smith, USA (RET) 1stSgt Walter David Miller by Mrs. Annie H. Miller All who died in Vietnam by TSgt James M. Surles, USAF (RET) F. E. Canning, USN & Margaret I. Canning, USAF by TECH Sharon B. Canning, USA (RET) KIA's of 2d BN 18th Inf, Viewnam War

by MSG George Gardner, USA (VET) LtCol Jeremiah B. Hawkinsby Maj Benjamin R. Hawkins, USAF (RET) MAJ Martin by LTC Adrian G. Traas, USA (RET) William H. Eddy by Mrs. Louise P. Knauss All Veterans by MSgt Michael G. Holmes, USAF Herman Purify by SSG Quennon T. Purify, USA (RET) Jeiel A. Halls, Jr. by Mrs. Grace C. Collins Jerry by Mrs. Edna N. Klein Jesse Price by AOC Clark P. Warren, USN (RET) Jimmy Franklin Burnett by LTC Neill C. Burnett, USA (RET) LtCol Frederic N. Oettinger by Mrs. Mary B. Oettinger MAJ Richard LeGate by COL Edward J. Burke, III, USA (RET) Saengduan Couden by TSgt Robert J. Couden, USAF (RET) Sanford A. Johnson by Mrs. Beverly J. Johnson SSgt Monte D. Rogers by Ms. Saundra S. Rogers William A. Anderson by Col Crystal N.

Epperson, USAF (RET) Bob Raible by LTC James W. Raible, USA (RET) CMSgt Jim Binneker, USAF by MSgt James P. Monahan, USAF (RET) Cpt William W. Medcalf by Mrs. Audrey C. Medcalf Frank E. Soules by MCPO Fred S. Soules, USCG (RET) James Davis by SFC Eugene R. Davis, USA (RET) Maj Jack McMichael by Mrs. Louise McMichael Marianne M. Spickerman by TSgt John Spickerman, USAF (RET) Mary Caroline Johnson by Col Bob M. Johnson, USAF (RET) Medic Tsunada by 1SG Hibbert J. Manley, USA (RET) MSG Fredrick Wegner by Mrs. Ferol H. Wegner Sonya Bracken by SFC Ray E. Bracken, USA (RET) Warren Ballenberger by Mrs. Dorothy A. Ballenberger Al Ancewz, Paul Weber, Geo Metcalf, & Charlotte S. Turner by CPT William L. Zila, USA (RET) Bobby L. Dewbre by Mrs. Juanita Jane Keymer Calvin Van Alstine, Kenneth Lane, & Gen Orlando Gonzales by Mrs. Cecilia C. Van Alstine Charles Greenlund, USN by COL Leonard L. Hays, USA (RET) Charles Paul Willnauer by Mrs. Phyllis L. Willnauer Charles Whitley by Maj Katherine C. Snuggs, USAF (RET) Claude Harness by LCDR Roy C. Harness, USN (RET) Dimple L. Green by SFC Jeffrey T. Green, USA (RET) Douglas M. Franklin by SFC George L. Franklin, Jr., USA (RET) Edward E. Roseby Mrs. Amparo Polly Rose Frank N. Scott by Ms. Harriett E. Scott Frencis Pimental by MSG Wilfred P. Pimental, Sr., USA (RET) Harry Livingstonby Mrs. Gloria W. Livingston Matt Dickinsonby Mrs. Donna R. Dickinson Max Kersey by SMSgt Charles E. Newman, USAF (RET) MSG William James, Jr.by Mrs. Betty James SGT Guiot by SFC Bernardo F. Ramos, USA (RET) Sidney Werthan by LTC George B. Werthan, USA (RET) Stanley A. Olsen by MSgt Norman S. Olsen, USAF (RET) TSgt Joe Chizzan, USAF by MSgt Edward R. Zizulka, Sr., USAF (RET) Unknown Soldier by SFC Manuel C. Sholing, USA (RET) Wayne J. & Keith W. Hall by COL Robert T. Hall, USA (RET) Geneve Mitchell by CMSgt James A. Mitchell, USAF (RET) Iris (Toni) Fisher by LtCol Warren P. Fisher, USAF (RET) Jim Buss by CPO Larry G. Crews, USNR Katherine R. Cookston by MSgt omas W. Cookston, USAF (RET) SFC Albert D. Engman, USA by Mrs. Mary A. Engman Woodrow W. Beckelheimer by SFC B. C. Beckelheimer, USA (RET) David B. Baughman by SMSgt James R. Baughman, USAF (RET) Joe B. omas, Jr.by Mrs. Bobby J. DeChand LtCol Floyd Frederick by Maj William L. Hall, USMC (RET) Richard Eaton by Mrs. Jeanne G. Eaton Charles J. Henshaw by Mrs. Eleanor Korf Col William D. Jackson by Mrs. Connie S. Jackson George Adams by CSM James J. Schonefeld, USA (RET) Guy A. Marshall by Mrs. Nola E. Marshall Joseph Norman Phelps by LTC William B. Phelps, USA (RET) King Odell, Sr. by LtCol King B. Odell, Jr., USAF (RET) Teresa Willis, USN (Vet) by COL Marvin F. Willis, USA (RET) John Peter Shinglar by CMSgt Dave I. Dashnaw, USAF (RET) Leonard L. Wolkeby Mrs. Bertha M. Wolke Ann M. Rogan by COL John F. Rogan, USA (RET) Leonard Woodby Mrs. Marianne C. Wood

Contributors

Chairman’s Club (more than $500)

PFC William L. Brown, Jr., USA (RET) CMSgt Robert D. Chervek, USAF (RET) SFC Harold Collins, Jr., USA (RET) LTC Walace H. Currey, USA (RET) Ms. Cheryl A. Glang SMSgt Mary E. Hatfield, USAF (RET) LTC Frank J. Hill, USA (RET) TSgt John H. Lamourine, USAF (RET) CAPT Lee Miles, USN (RET) Mr. Dennis H. Ruck MSG Keith Salyer, USA (RET) Mrs. Patsy H. Simpson Col Albert G. Stewart, USAF (RET) PO1 Larry D. Tenter, USN (RET) USAA MajGen omas L. Wilkerson, USMC (RET)

President’s Club ($200 to $499)

LTC Donald M. Amundson, USA (RET) MSG Herbert C. Atwell, USA (RET) Ms. Julie A. Bizzell 1SG Mallard L. Braddock, USA (RET) TSgt Jared B. Brandenburg, USAF (RET) LTC Stanford S. Brantley, USA (RET) SGT Robert A. Brewster, USA (RET) LtCol Edward G. Brown, Jr., USAF (RET) LtCol Rod W. Brown, USAF (RET) TSgt John A. Brunet, USAF (RET) COL William E. Burr, II, USA (RET) LTC William R. Campbell, USA (RET) MSG Ronald W. Carey, USA (RET) SGT Michael F. Castor, USA (RET) LTG Robert D. Chelberg, USA (RET) CMSgt William S. Clark, USAF (RET) MSgt John J. Clayton, USAF (RET) LtCol Byron D. Cole, USAF (RET) Col William L. Cooper, Jr., USAF (RET) TSgt John E. Counterman, USAF (RET) MajGen Lewis G. Curtis, USAF (RET) CSM Ralph C. Daniels, USA (RET) MSgt A. D. Debettencourt, Jr., USAF (RET) TSgt Jack H. DeHart, USAF (RET) Col Ned G. Duffield, USAF (RET) SFC John J. Early, USA (RET) CSM Joe R. Godwin, USA (RET) MSgt Olaf F. Gouchie, Jr., USAF (RET) SgtMaj Arthur R. Graham, USMC (RET) RMC John Robert Grant, USCG (RET) MG Edward Greer, USA (RET) CSM Clarence W. Hall, USA (RET) Col John H. Harrington, Jr., USAF (RET) LTC John Hazlett, USA (RET) CDR Marie Herold, USPHS (RET) LtCol Robert W. Hicks, USAF (RET) COL Pete Houben, USA (RET) COL John D. Howard, USA (RET) SSG Jack E. Hughes, USA (RET) Ms. Maria Hughes Ms. Tamara Hunt MSgt William E. Huntenburg, USAF (RET) TSgt Harry L. Huston, USAF (RET) SSG omas N. Johnson, USA (RET) CPT Diane M. Judy, USA (VET) LTC Kenneth A. Kallbreier, USA (RET) CSM Billie Kelley, USA (RET) LCDR Joseph Stephen Kiraly, USN (RET) CPL Frank H. Knapp, USA (VET) SGM Venis D. Knight, USA (RET) Col Jack L. Krout, USAF (RET) CAPT Ralph H. Laedtke, MSC, USN (RET) LTC Hank Lee, USA (RET) Ms. Katherine E. Light CMSgt Allan L. Lindblom, USAF (RET) 1SG Bobby B. Maggard, USA (RET) LtCol Keith O. Malkemes, USAF (RET) LCDR John A. Mancini, USNR (RET) LtCol William W. Manning, D.D.S., USAFR (RET) SFC Martin Mathis, USA (RET) SGM Robert S. Mc Divitt, USA (RET) SMSgt Richard P. Meixner, USAF (RET) CMSgt Clyde Miller, USAF (RET) Mrs. Jean E. Mislinski CW4 George E. Oberst, USA (RET) 1stSgt Harry G. Oldland, USMC (RET) Mrs. Elizabeth J. Oxnam MSG Alvin Parker, USA (RET) 1SG Robert C. Peters, USA (RET) LtCol Wayne F. Provines, USAF (RET) 1SG omas S. Purvinis, USA (RET) Mrs. Doris F. Rosenbaum Col Ralph Rothstein, USAF (RET) SSG William H. Rowswell, USA (RET) MCPO Marion W. Sanders, USN (RET)

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While we don’t have space to list every contributor, every gift is appreciated. If you would like to contribute, please use the envelope provided or go online to www.NAUS.org or call 1-800-842-3451.

Mrs. Mercedes Sanders COL Paul Schweikert, Jr., USA (RET) LtCol Herald E. Seigler, USAF (RET) LTC Harry V. Shoop, USA (RET) LtCol Ross J. Simon, USAF (RET) CMSgt Robert F. Simpson, USAF (VET) CSM Earl J. Smythe, Jr., USA (RET) Mr. Neil E. Stacy Mrs. Madeleine H. Tapp CW3 James M. Toler, USA (RET) CPO Albert C. Vallejos, USN (RET) MAJ James F. Vaughn, USA (RET) SFC Glenn R. Vealey, USA (RET) CW2 Edward B. Venable, USA (VET) Col Robert C. Walker, Jr., USAF (RET) Col William H. Weaver, Jr., USAF (RET) SFC Joe A. Wesley, USA (RET) Capt Henry O. Whitney, USAF (RET) LtCol Alan N. Whittle, USAF (RET) SMSgt James Wurzburger, USAF (RET) SMSgt Ray M. Yonemitsu, USAF (RET) SMSgt Michael S. Young, USAF (RET) Ms. Marion M. Zook

Century Club ($100 to $199)

SFC George K. Abbott, USA (RET) Dr. Claudia R. Adkins SGM Edward Aja, USA (RET) COL Donald W. Albertson, USA (RET) MSgt Edward S. Alviso, Sr., USAF (RET) MSG Joe C. Anderson, USA (RET) Mrs. Dorothy A. Anderson ATC Harold C. Anderson, USN (RET) LtCol Carmen Annillo, Jr., USAF (RET) SFC Alvin Arakaki, USA (RET) LtCol Marlin L. Arford, USAF (RET) YNCM Dennis G. Arnold, USN (RET) CW3 James Arrowood, USA (RET) Mrs. Patricia G. Arsenault Col Armando Arvizu, USAF (RET) LTC John C. Avery, USA (RET) WO1 Cecil R. Bailey, USA (RET) SFC Daniel T. Baker, USA (RET) Mr. Russell S. Baker, Jr. LtCol Arthur T. Ballard, Jr., USAF (RET) SSgt omas E. Barlow, USAF (RET) Mrs. Arlie L Barrett COL Frederick T. Barrett, USA (RET) SFC Robert B. Batungbacal, USA (RET) SMSgt James R. Baughman, USAF (RET) CPO John P. Bayer, USN (RET) MSG Frank R. Beck, USA (RET) Mrs. Hazel A. Belvin Mrs. Barbara Best CDR Joseph A. Beyer, USCGR (RET) MAJ Eugenia B. Bishop, USA (RET) CW2 Duane G. Black, USA (RET) SFC Daryl M. Black, USA (RET) CDR Lindsay C. Blanton, Jr., USN (RET) Ms. Ren-Na L. Blevins Ms. Donna S. Bloedorn COL Ray K. Bluhm, Jr., USA (RET) LtCol Paul J. Bolton, USA (RET) MSgt Stanley R. Bonds, USAF (RET) MSG Frank G. Boone, USA (RET) COL Stephen G. Bosway, USA (RET) 1SG Louis D. Bottini, USA (RET) MSgt omas B. Bowen, Jr., USAF (RET) MSgt Billy M. Bowen, USAF (RET) CW4 Utah C. Brady, USA (RET) Mrs. M. K. Branighan Maj Neil S. Brewer, USAF (RET) MSgt Jimmy Brookshire, USAF (RET) Col Charles W. Brown, USAF (RET) Ms. Nida Brown SFC David N. Brown, USAR (RET) Mrs. Carrie E. Bruner MAJ Richard H. Buchholz, USA (RET) LtCol David N. Buckner, USMC (RET) LtCol Edward P. Bucko, USAF (RET) Col Jack P. Bujalski, USAF (RET) Mrs. Beulah G. Bunton SGM Herald Burke, USA (RET) LTC Robert G. C. Burns, USA (RET) CSM Donald W. Butcher, USA (RET) LtCol Ray F. Butts, USAF (RET) Col Jack A. Buzbee, USAF (RET) Mrs. Jane S. Campbell Ms. Kathy T. Cantatore 1st Lt Terry Capton-Snell, USAF (VET) MAJ Charles H. Carden, USA (RET) LtCol Robert A. Carpenter, USAF (RET) SGM James T. Carroll, USA (RET) TSgt J. R. Casey, USAF (RET)

SGT Geronimo T. Castilleja, USA (RET) LtCol Bob A. Chaffee, USAF (RET) LTC Robert E. Chisolm, USA (RET) PSG Joseph H. Chitwood, USA (RET) TSgt Carolyn M. Cleaborn, USAF (RET) Maj Marlene A. Clemmer, USAF (RET) MSgt Harold Cler, USAF (RET) MSgt Normand A. Cloutier, USAF (RET) SGM Lowell N. Cobbs, USA (RET) SMSgt William H. Cole, USAF (RET) Mieko Collins, USAF MSgt omas W. Cookston, USAF (RET) VADM Daniel L. Cooper, USN (RET) COL Roger R. Copinger, Jr., USA (RET) SFC Barman Cornett, Jr., USA (RET) SgtMaj Arthur R. Cowan, USMC (RET) CPO Larry G. Crews, USNR SSgt Roy L. Crittendon, USAF (RET) Mrs. Shirley B. Crowder Col Gary Culp, USAF (RET) Mr. Robert E. Cunningham MAJ Stephen L. Cushman, USA (RET) BMC Adriaan C. Cysouw, USN (RET) SFC Michael K. Darr, USA (RET) LTC Mildred D. Davis, USA (RET) SSG Alberto L. Delgado, USA (RET) 1SG Joseph A. Delois, USA (RET) SMSgt Adrian G. Denno, USAF (RET) Col Joe W. Dickinson, USAF (RET) RMCM Paul F. Dillon, USN (RET) LTC Donald B. Doggett, USA (RET) CAPT John M. Donlon, USN (RET) SMSgt Gerald A. Donnelly, USAF (RET) Ms. Helen L. Druesedow LTC James E. Duffy, USA (RET) CMSgt Bob A. Dunaway, USAF (RET) CDR David Dunning, USNR (RET) LTC Harold E. Durst, USA (RET) Mrs. Dorothy A. Dwyer COL Joseph D. Dye, USA (RET) Ms. Tanya J. Edwards LtCol Edward D. Ehrenberger, USAF (RET) Col Robert L. Eigel, USAF (RET) SFC Robert M. Epstein, USA (RET) LtCol Douglas M. Erickson, USAF (RET) Mr. Richard J. Essex 1SG David S. Esteban, USA (RET) CMSgt Howard Frank Evans, USAF (RET) CW4 David D. Failacci, USA (RET) AKCS William J. Farrell, USN (RET) SFC Charles Felder, AUS (RET) SGM Floyd E. Felts, USA (RET) Mrs. Dorothy M. Ferguson SGM Walter A. Finch, USA (RET) CPO (SS) William T. Finney, Sr., USN (RET) CAPT Donald J. Fitzpatrick, USN (RET) COL John F. Fitzsimons, USA (RET) COL Darrrell N. Flannery, USAR (RET) Col James L. Flood, USAF (RET) LCDR Donald S. Foltz, USN (RET) MAJ Fernando Fragoso, USA (RET) Dr. Patricia R. Francisco Mrs. Norma J. Freeman Mrs. Betty J. French MSgt Richard M. Fujishige, USAF (RET) Maj Robert E. Gabosch, USAF (RET) Mrs. Lorraine G. Gabusi Ms. Charline Gajdos LTC Isaac R. Garner, Jr., USA (RET) MAJ Roy Gersten, USA (RET) LTC Earl N. Gilley, USA (RET) CDR Sara E. Gillis, USPHS (RET) TSgt James L. Gipson, USAF (RET) AEC Charles J. Glaraton, Jr., USN (RET) Col Walter F. Glowicki, USMC (RET) SFC Homer L. Golden, USA (RET) SSG Clarence J. Grahmann, USA (RET) LtCol Merle R. Green, Jr., USAF (RET) Mrs. Gillian M. Greene 1SG Richard E. Grice, USA (RET) SCPO Arthur K. Grist, USCG (RET) SGM William A. Groce, USA (RET) CDR Elton E. Guffey, USN (RET) Col Harold A. Gunn, Jr., USAF (RET) Mrs. Lois R. Hahn MSG Malcolm J. Hale, USA (RET) COL William E. Hall, Jr., USAF (RET) SGM Jack M. Hamilton, USA (RET) Mrs. Dolores D. Hammock MG Jack L. Hancock, USA (RET) Col Philip D. Hanley, USAF (RET) Mrs. Lorraine J. Hanson SGM Walter Y. Harimoto, USA (RET) SGM Terrence G. Harper, USA (RET)

Mrs. Mary A. Harvey SFC Deborah A. Hawkins, USA (RET) SFC Gary L. Heaberlin, USAR (RET) MG Daniel C. Helix, USA (RET) Maj John H. Helton, USAF (RET) MAJ Bill J. Helwig, USA (RET) CW3 Jimmy D. Hemming, USA (RET) SFC Charles R. Henderson, Jr., USA (RET) SCPO Arthur V. Hernandez, USCG (RET) 1SG Billy Herndon, USA (RET) Mrs. Jean D. Herridge Mrs. Jacqueline M. Hesse MG Patricia P. Hickerson, USA (RET) SFC Ronald G. Hill, USA (RET) MAJ Patrick Hirsch, USA (RET) TSgt Daniel J. Hite, USAF (RET) Col Peter C. Hoag, USAF (RET) Mrs. Bettie P. Hobart Maj Lowell G. Hofer, USAF (RET) SSG Edward J. Hogan, Jr., USA (RET) Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hoppe CW4 Roland E. Horn, USA (RET) MCPO Douglas R. Horsfall, USN (RET) MSgt Jack L. Horton, USAF (RET) SMSgt Ernest P. Hourigan, USAF (RET) RDCS Wilbur R. House, USN (RET) COL Reginald Howard, USA (RET) CSM Peter W. Howlett, USA (RET) MAJ John H. Hughen, USA (RET) Mrs. Lieselotte Hunt CSM James L. Hurtt, USA (RET) CMSgt Richard T. Huysie, USAF (RET) LTC Frank K. Inami, USA (RET) SGM Peter Iverson, USA (RET) CW2 Arthur L. Jacoby, USA (RET) SFC William M. James, USA (RET) LtCol Clifford A. James, USAF (RET) SFC Russell James, USA (RET) MSgt Harvey L. Johns, USAF (RET) TSgt Fred J. Johnson, USAF (RET) SMSgt William R. Jones, USAF (RET) SGM Charles A. Jones, USA (RET) LCDR Billy N. Jones, USN (RET) LtCol Raymond W. Kalm, USMC (RET) MSG Paul H. Kaser, USA (RET) TSgt Roger H. Katzer, USAF (RET) MAJ Robert D. Keene, USA (RET) CMSgt Calvin L. Keil, USAF (RET) CWO2 omas C. Kendrick, USMC (RET) MG Philip R. Kensinger, Jr., USA (RET) MSgt Paul R. Kent, USAF (RET) SFC Anthony H. Kepano, Sr., USA (RET) SMSgt John H. Kerr, USAF (RET) Mrs. Clara G. Ketteringham MSG William R. King, USA (RET) PO1 Neil A. Klingenburg, USN (RET) Mrs. Rena L. Knight COL Joe T. Knox, USA (RET) CSM Young H. Ko, USA (RET) MSgt Herman N. Kounter, USAF (RET) COL Maxim I. Kovel, USA (RET) LTC John G. Kramer, Jr., USA (RET) Mrs. Lois J. Kranz Mr. Milton Kurkemelis SMSgt LeRoy Kyhn, USAF (RET) Col Jay D. Lagree, USAF (RET) SFC Maurice R. Laliberte, USA (RET) SFC Franklin D. Lamb, USA (RET) MSgt Michael F. Lamb, USMC (RET) LTC David L. Lane, USA (RET) SMSgt Richard M. Lange, USAF (RET) COL David W. Larson, USA (RET) SCPO Jim Lavoie, USN (RET) LTC George C. Lawton, USA (RET) MAJ Robert B. Layman, USA (RET) SMSgt Charles P. Leard, USAF (RET) SSG Gentle Lee, USA (RET) LTC William C. Lendermon, USA (RET) Mrs. Marilyn C. Likens MSG James L. Lindsey, USA (RET) SGM Elpidio Lin-Justiniano, USA (RET) TSgt Horace Little, USAF (RET) LtCol Norma M. Loeser, USAF (RET) LTC Lance O. Lollini, USA (RET) SSG Felix Lopez, USA (RET) LtCol Ralph M. Lower, USAF (RET) Col Chester C. Lukas, USAF (RET) MSG Louis R. Luther, USA (RET) COL Arthur F. Mace, USA (RET) MAJ Bernard J. Magelky, USA (RET) Mrs. Patricia D. Mancuso 1SG Hibbert J. Manley, USA (RET) LTC Clarel B. Mapes, II, USA (RET) COL James D. Marshall, USA (RET)

Mrs. Laura Mae Martin Mr. Joseph Martin SSG Eberhard E. Mattler, USA (RET) Mr. Truman Mayer SFC Alvin K. Mazonna, USA (RET) MSG Michael J. McCann, USA (RET) Col Raymond R. McClean, USAF (RET) Col Lawrence J. McDonald, USMC (RET) CMSgt Gregory P. McDowell, USAF (RET) CPT Ronnie McDowell, USNG (VET) Ms. Ellen McGuire Capt Wallace L. McIver, USMC (RET) MSgt Henry McKinnon, Jr., USAF (RET) MSG Ernest R. McManus, Jr., USA (RET) MAJ Donald F. McNulty, USA (RET) SFC Harold F. McQuaid, USA (RET) Maj Harold R. McSweeney, USMC (RET) LTC Gary T. Meagher, USA (RET) MSG Joseph A. Merchant, USA (RET) MCPO Richard C. Merrill, USCG (RET) CW3 Robert L. Miller, USA (RET) LtGen George D. Miller, USAF (RET) CSM Earl L. Miller, USA (RET) Ms. omasina S. Miller SSG Ira W. Miller, USA (RET) Mrs. N. Diane Miller SGT Francis J. Mills, USA (RET) HM1 William A. Miner, USN (RET) MSG Erma M. Mishler, USA (RET) SFC Kenneth A. Moore, USA (RET) SMSgt Fay F. Moore, USAF (RET) MAJ Lucien A. Morin, USA (RET) CPO William J. Morrison, USN (RET) Mr. Richard W. Morrow, Sr. SMSgt Charles H. Morse, USAF (RET) 1SG Homer D. Mosier, USA (RET) SMSgt Harold W. Moss, USAF (RET) LtCol Harold V. Motsinger, USAF (RET) Ms. Caroline E. Mott LtCol James F. Mumaw, USAF (RET) SFC Daniel T. Mumma, USA (RET) CW4 William C. Murphy, USA (RET) Mrs. Patricia A. Murphy MajGen Richard D. Murray, USAF (RET) Mrs. Bertha E. Neitch-Baker Mrs. Mary Arlene Nevland COL John K. Newton, USA (RET) MG Stephen E. Nichols, USA (RET) Col Charles Norman Nielsen, USAF (RET) 1SG John A. Nordmeyer, USA (RET) Mrs. Virginia L. Norman LtCol Clayton H. Northup, USAF (RET) LTC Robert A. Nulk, USA (RET) COL Robert E. O’Donnell, USA (RET) COL H. David O’Malie, AUS (RET) LtCol Patrick E. O’Reilly, USAF (RET) Col Clyde W. Owen, USAF (RET) SMSgt Jesse J. Owens, USAF (RET) MAJ Frank E. Pannone, USA (RET) Sgt John E. Paolo, USAF (RET) PO1 James Parker, USN (RET) MSG Harold J. Parrott, USA (RET) CSM Henry Pascua, Sr., USA (RET) 1SG Robert Patrouille, USA (RET) LCDR Frank G. Pattermann, USN (RET) Maj David R. Payne, USAF (RET) COL Stanley R. Pearson, USA (RET) SFC Fernando Pereida, USA (RET) TSgt George Perry, USAF (RET) CAPT Ernest C. Petersen, MM (RET) Mrs. Christina L. Petteruti LTC William B. Phelps, USA (RET) SFC Isaac Pinckney, USA (RET) COL Mark W. Potter, USA (RET) Mrs. Beatrice Powell COL Charles D. Preetorius, USA (RET) SGT Anthony W. Primus, USA (RET) COL James H. Pugmire, USA (RET) Mr. Frank Purdy, Jr. SSG Floyd E. Quiggle, USA (RET) Mrs. Mary M. Raber TSgt Bobby C. Raines, USAF (RET) LtCol Ronald C. Ramlow, USAF (RET) Mrs. Beverly J. Ramsey CSM Wallace W. Rapp, USA (RET) Mrs. Frances Ratliff GySgt William A. Reddington, USMC (RET) SFC Donald R. Reed, USA (RET) COL Richard Reem, USA (RET) LTC John A. Reid, Jr., USA (RET) MSgt Donald L. Rennie, USAF (RET) MSG William Repella, USA (RET) LTC Charles D. Revie, USA (RET) CPL Robert Ritorto, USMC (RET) LTC Marvin B. Roberts, USA (RET) COL Grace L. Roberts, USA (RET) SFC John T. Roberts, USA (RET) MG George R. Robertson, USA (RET) SMSgt George W. Robinson, USAF (RET) LTC Mary K. Robitaille, USA (RET) COL John F. Rogan, USA (RET) CSM Ernest J. Romer, Jr., USA (RET)

Col Richard F. Rom, USAF (RET) ADJ2 Phillip J. Ronish, USN (RET) SGM William F. Roper, Jr., USA (RET) SFC Jesus T. Rosario, USA (RET) LTC Consejo Rosario-Gibson, USA (RET) SMSgt Horst Roschmann, USAF (RET) LtCol Ernest G. Rose, USAF (RET) CDR James F. Roth, USN (RET) COL Lewis A. Routon, USA (RET) LtCol Garrett S. Runey, USAF (RET) Mrs. Janet L. Rush Mrs. Mary Russell MGySgt Charles L. Russell, USMC (RET) CAPT Harold J. Russell, USNR (RET) TSgt Vernon R. Ruwwe, USAF (RET) AT1 Edward L. Sabourin, USNR (RET) LTC Howard R. Sage, USA (RET) SFC Benjamin Saguibo, USA (RET) CMSgt Gene L. Salisbury, USAF (RET) LTC Eudell Sanford-Abernathy, USA (RET) Mrs. Patricia J. Scally TSgt Martin Schickram, USNG (RET) COL Stanley W. Schmucker, USA (RET) QMCS Albert R. Schneider, USN (RET) Mr. Robert L. Schwarz Col Hugh L. Scott, USAF (RET) LTC James M. Seeright, USA (RET) RMCS Robert C. Sexton, USN (RET) SGM Llewellyn Sexton, USA MSG Basil R. Shaffer, USA (RET) CW3 Richard W. Sharke, USA (RET) SMSgt Hermon Sharpe, Jr., USAF (RET) COL Roger J. Shields, USA (RET) COL John E. Shillingburg, USA (RET) Mrs. Yasu Shwetzer CDR John R. Sill, USN (RET) MG Stephen Silvasy, Jr., USA (RET) SMSgt Oscar L. Sims, USAF (RET) CMSgt Bruce T. Sincox, USAF (RET) CDR David J. Singstock, USN (RET) MSG Eugene W. Sites, USA (RET) SGT Jerry L. Skibbe, USA (RET) Maj Joseph L. Small, USAF (RET) 1SG Levester Smarr, USA (RET) MSG George B. Smeltzer, Jr., USA (RET) Mrs. Kitty S. Smith MSgt William J. Smith, Jr., USAF (RET) Maj James R. Smith, USAF (RET) MSgt John J. Smith, Jr., USAF (RET) LtCol Kenneth H. Smith, USAF (RET) CSM Russell L. Smith, Sr., USA (RET) SSgt Robert M. Smith, Jr., USAF (RET) Mrs. Hazel W. Smith 1SG Rozier W. Smith, Jr., USA (RET) Col Richard C. Snavely, USAF (RET) CSM Vernon G. Snyder, USA (RET) 1SG Walter J. Sowell, USA (RET) PO1 Dwight Spear, USN (RET) MG Clyde W. Spence, USA (RET) 1SG Charles B. Standfield, USA (RET) MSgt Brenda Stein, USAF (RET) MSG Edward L. Stein, USA (RET) Col Taylor F. Stem, Jr., USAF (RET) Mrs. Betty J. Stewart SGM William L. Stewart, USA (RET) Mrs. Phoebe Ann Stewart CW3 Bennett B. Stone, USA (RET) COL Carl Stones, USA (RET) Ms. Chiyoe Stout COL Larry Stubblefield, USA (RET) MSG Jesse B. Stutts, USA (RET) COL Mary A. Swenson, USA (RET) Mrs. Josephine A. Syda CSM Jerome K. Tanabe, USA (RET) SFC Robert T. Tanaka, Jr., USA (RET) SGM Lee D. Taylor, USA (RET) RADM Jeremy D. Taylor, USN (RET) Mrs. Clydia Taylor COL Virgil R. Teigland, USA (RET) SSgt Michael J. Terrell, USAF (RET) MSgt Harold R. Terrell, USAF (RET) CPO James A. issen, USN (RET) LtCol Arthur R. ompson, Jr., USAF (RET) COL William E. ompson, Jr., USAR (RET) Maj Paul A. omson, USAF (RET) CMSgt Robert L. rower, Sr., USAF (RET) Mr. Francis W. un Maj William L. Todd, II, USAF (RET) Mr. Eugene A. Trapp LTC Elizabeth G. Tullis, USA (RET) CDR Russell L. Tupper, II, USNR (RET) Ms. Alice Tyrol-Elliott MSgt Raymond D. VanDusen, Jr., USAF (RET) COL Elwin A. Vernon, USA (RET) TSgt Eugene D. Vickers, USAF (RET) Maj Ricardo Villarina, Jr., USAF (RET) SMSgt Raymond E. Vinson, USAF (RET) CMSgt Frank W. Vlcek, USAF (RET) STSCS (SS) Roger R. Volk, USN (RET) CAPT William E. Vollmer, Jr., USN (RET) Mrs. Mary J. Von Melker LtCol Harry J. Vordermeier, Jr., USAF (RET)

CMSgt Louis Vukich, USAF (RET) CSM Benjamin Waiolama, USA (RET) Mrs. Jeanette Walker COL Lawrence R. Walker, USAR MSG Douglas G. Walling, USA (RET) CWO4 Gerald Walters, USA (RET) AOC Clark P. Warren, USN (RET) MCPO Stephen P. Watson, USN (RET) MSgt James K. Watson, USAF (RET) SP6 Marvin A. Watts, USA (RET) MSG James E. Weaver, USA (RET) 1SG Lawrence C. Webb, USA (RET) Maj Ronald W. Webber, USAF (RET) Mrs. Charlotte Wehrman Maj William J. Welch, USAF (RET) CPO Armon Werre, USN (RET) Mrs. Barbara N. West LTC omas B. Whalen, USA (RET) Mrs. Margot White LT A. J. Wichita, USN (VET) MW4 Donald W. Widman, USA (RET) MSgt Jay H. Wiesner, USMC (RET) Mrs. Nadine O. Wilberger SGM Rosie B. Williams, USA (VET) CAPT Cletus F. Wise, USN (RET) LtCol John E. Woerly, Jr., USAF (RET) MSG Jerry Woodell, USA (RET) CAPT James F. Young, USNR (RET) Ms. Bettye J. Young LtCol Eugene G. Younger, USAF (RET) SMSgt Arturo Zapata, USAF (RET) SSG John Zepp, USA (RET) LtCol Daniel H. Ziegler, USAF (RET)

Booster Club ($50 to $99)

Mrs. Teresa L. Acton Capt Louis W. Adams, USAF (RET) CWO Jerry W. Albright, USMC (RET) 1SG Robert G. Alfes, USA (RET) SSG William J. Alford, USA (RET) GySgt Francis Allen, USMC (VET) CW3 Elanson A. Alley, USA (RET) MSG Herbert H. Alsept, USA (RET) CPO Michael G. Alvarez, USCG (RET) MSgt James D. Alvord, USAF (RET) SFC Leo W. Alwin, USA (RET) RADM Fred L. Ames, USCG (RET) MSgt William Amic, USAF (RET) COL Robert J. Anderson, USAR (RET) COL Paul D. Anderson, USA (RET) GMG1 Robert J. Anderson, USN (RET) Mrs. Margaret W. Anderson Col Kermit W. Andrus, USMC (RET) MSG Albert J. Antoine, USA (RET) 1SG Charles J. Apuan, USA (RET) SGM Pedro J. Aragon, USA (RET) LtCol Michael R. Armstrong, USAF (RET) Mrs. Jessica N. Arnet CW3 Charles W. Arnold, USA (RET) MAJ Taro B. Asami, USA (RET) Mrs. Mary C. Asente LCDR Lloyd M. Ash, USN (RET) Mrs. Norma J. Asselin COL Paul R. Atherton, USA (RET) Col Noel F. Austin, USAF (RET) Mrs. Joan J. Avery Mrs. Katharina B. Avery CPL Alphonse Avitabile, USA (RET) MSG Mihaly Bacsmai, USA (RET) SFC Kent Bailey, AUS (RET) PO1 John W. Bailey, USN (RET) SCPO Roy E. Baither, USN (RET) CSM Robert A. Baker, USA (RET) Mrs. Norma A. Baker Col Ronald F. Baker, USAF (RET) LTC Elvin G. Baker, USA (RET) CMSgt Larry S. Baldwin, USAF (RET) PFC John Z. Balla, USA (VET) LTC Albert L. Ballard, Jr., USA (RET) LTC Ross H. Ballou, USA (RET) MSG Francis J. Baranowski, USA (RET) CAPT W. D. Barbee, NOAA (RET) LtCol Albert R. Barbin, Jr., USAF (RET) MSG Clion L. Barger, Sr., USA (RET) PSG Floyd D. Barlow, USA (RET) Ms. Sarah Barnard Maj James E. Barrett, USAF (VET) CDR Charles T. Barrett, Jr., USCGR (RET) Mrs. Evelyn M. Barry COL John H. Batts, USA (RET) Mrs. Dona K. Baucom SFC Ferman E. Bauer, USA (RET) SFC William Baxter, USA (RET) LtCol Marjorie E. Beakes, USAF (RET) MSgt Herman E. Beard, USAF (RET) Mrs. Ellen Beaty SFC B. C. Beckelheimer, USA (RET) COL George P. Becknell, Jr., USA (RET) CDR Frank M. Belinske, Sr., USNR (RET) LtCol George M. Bell, USAF (RET) SSG Frank F. Belton, USA (RET) MSG Donald J. Belz, USA (RET)

SGM John P. Benavente, USA (RET) CSM Floyd V. Bennett, USA (RET) Col George W. Bennett, USAF (RET) 1SG Ernest J. Benting, USA (RET) MSgt William J. Bergstrom, USAF (RET) Mrs. Helen M. Berning SMSgt Gerald Berth, USAF (RET) Mrs. Anna M. Beyer CAPT David W. Billharz, USN (RET) LTC Everett L. Bills, Jr., USA (RET) MAJ Gordon L. Biscomb, USA (RET) TSgt Joseph Eugene Black, Sr., USAF (RET) LtCol Merle L. Black, III, USAF (RET) MSgt Carl W. Black, USAF (RET) LtCol Richard S. Blackburn, USAF (RET) Ms. Ava L. Blais Mrs. Penny Blake LtCol Lorraine M. Blakely, USAF (RET) MSgt Dennis J. Blakemore, USAF (RET) Mrs. Janet H. Blandin ABCM Antonio B. Blas, USN (RET) SP3 Monte E. Blue, USA (RET) CAPT James N. Bogden, USPHS (RET) MSgt James E. Bokanovich, USAF (RET) SGM William J. Bolfik, USA (RET) LTC Sam W. Booher, USA (RET) LTC Richard L. Boos, USA (RET) CWO-2 Robert S. Booth, USN (RET) MSgt Victor A. Booth, USAF (RET) MSG Oscar E. Borchelt, USA (RET) SFC William T. Bosanko, USA (RET) MSG Robert C. Boston, USA (RET) MSG Earl L. Bottomley, USA (RET) Mrs. Ann H. Bouknight Maj William G. Bowen, USAF (RET) PO1 Arthur D. Bower, USN (RET) MG Verne L. Bowers, USA (RET) BMC Boyne F. Boyd, USCG (RET) COL Reese L. Boyd, USA (RET) Mrs. Frances A. Boyd Mrs. Frances E. Boykin LTC Derwood R. Boyles, USNG (RET) CMSgt Dennis L. Bradford, USAF (RET) PO1 James K. Bradley, USN (RET) MSG James F. Bradshaw, USA (RET) SGM Ray E. Brame, USA (RET) Maj Harold P. Branch, USAF (RET) MSgt Francis H. Brandenburg, Sr., USAF (RET) SFC Walter L. Brazelton, USA (RET) MGySgt Dennis M. Brazil, USMC (RET) TSgt William B. Breen, USAF (RET) MSgt David R. Bremer, USAF (RET) MAJ William D. Brenna, AUS (RET) SFC Martin H. Brewer, USA (RET) CMSgt Donald E. Brewer, USAF (RET) SFC Charlotte M. Briggs, USA (RET) LtCol Edward P. Brininstool, USAF (RET) DK2 Ruby C. Broom, USN (VET) Mrs. Etta M. Brown CMSgt Claude D. Brown, USAF (RET) MAJ Gordon M. Brown, II, USA (RET) Col Cary D. Brown, M.D., USAF (RET) MSG William B. Brown, USA (RET) LTC William C. Brown, USA (RET) SFC A. C. Brown, USA (RET) CSM Sidney R. Brown, USA (RET) Mrs. Jean Brown CPT James Brown, USA (RET) LTC Karl Richard Brunner, Jr., USA (RET) CW3 James T. Bryan, USA (RET) LtCol Allen L. Bryson, USAF (RET) MSgt Donovan L. Buckland, USAF (RET) SFC Patrick Buday, USAR (RET) TSgt Michael E. Bullard, USAF (RET) Mrs. Anna Bunch MSgt Kenneth Burda, USAF (RET) PO1 James M. Burm, USNR (RET) SGM Robert S. Burnett, USA (RET) LCDR omas S. Burr, USN (RET) 1SG Henry G. Bushfan, USA (RET) Maj Timothy L. Buttermore, USAF (RET) LtCol Richard D. Buttolph, USMC (RET) Col Jesse H. Button, M.D., USAF (RET) Mrs. Sandra M. Byrom LTC John D. Cain, USA (RET) CMSgt Gerald R. Caldwell, USAF (RET) MAJ Byron A. Calloway, USA (RET) MSgt Howard Campbell, USA (RET) Mrs. Donna M. Candee SSG Carlos Canino-Rodriguez, USA (RET) MSG James F. Cannon, USA (RET) CMSgt Robert A. Cantley, Sr., USNG (RET) Mrs. Marion J. Carey Maj Lance Carey, USAF (RET) Ms. Dorothy O. Carey Mr. Robert E. Carlson SMSgt Richard D. Carlson, USAF (RET) SSG Roy D. Carmack, USA (RET) TSgt Frank T. Carmine, USAF (RET) Mrs. Jeanette R. Carraway CSM Harley M. Carriger, USA (RET) Maj Barbara A. Carter, USAF (RET)

Col Elford L. Carwile, USAF (RET) 1SG Billy E. Casey, USA (RET) CPO Andre M. Castellano, USN (RET) Mrs. Carol H. Castellow LTC Leonard D. Chafin, USA (RET) Mrs. Louise E. Chaplin SFC Robert L. Chapman, USA (RET) Ms. Marilyn J. Chapman PFC Jay L. Chatterton, USAR (RET) SFC Charles E. Chester, Jr., USA (RET) Ms. Linda F. Chetlin SFC Herbert Christian, USAR (RET) Maj William A. Christians, USAF (RET) COL James D. Christie, USA (RET) LCDR Virginia B. Ciborowski, USN (RET) COL Robert H. Clark, USA (RET) 1SG James L. Clark, USA (RET) Mrs. Myrna L. Clayton Col Joseph P. Cleary, USAF (RET) SFC John D. Cleator, USA (RET) SP4 omas R. Cleveland, USA (VET) Maj Arthur A. Cline, USAF (RET) MSG Robert C. Cline, USNG (RET) SFC Lyle A. Clute, USA (RET) LTC William C. Coate, USA (RET) MSgt James A. Cobb, USAF (RET) Mrs. Eunice V. Cockrell Mrs. Lina E. Cockrill-Phillips SFC Richard D. Codanti, USA (RET) SGM Melvin W. Cogswell, USA (RET) Col J. D. Colcord, USAF (RET) CW4 Marvin W. Cole, USA (RET) LT Lawrence W. Coleman, USN (RET) MSG John C. Collins, USA (RET) SGT Charles Collins, USA (RET) GySgt Donald L. Collins, USMC (RET) CMSgt Earl C. Collins, USAF (RET) MSgt Richard T. Combes, USAF (RET) MSgt omas H. Combs, Sr., USAF (RET) CMSgt William Comer, USAF (RET) COL Kenneth F. Conlon, USA (RET) MCPO Richard E. Conrad, USN (RET) MSG Ronald Conrad, USA (RET) Mrs. Irene L. Conway CAPT John F. Cook, USN (RET) TMC Ronald L. Cook, USN (RET) CPO Ralph A. Cook, USN (RET) TSgt Donald P. Cooke, Sr., USAF (RET) Mrs. Marie B. Coolidge 2dLt Philip W. Coombe, USMC (RET) SGM William Coombs, USA (RET) SMSgt Frank W. Corbett, Jr., USAF (RET) Mrs. Nevona L. Corbin LtCol Richard H. Cormier, USAF (RET) MSgt Karl W. Corser, Jr., USAF (RET) LtCol Diane M. Cortner, USAF (RET) Ms. Jo Ann Cory 1SG Allan B. Cosand, USA (RET) SGM Mary C. Costello, USA (RET) 1SG Joseph J. Costello, USA (RET) MSgt Janet Cousin, USAF (RET) Ms. Mabel L. Cramer Ms. Ida B. Crawley Mrs. Ruth E. Crews MAJ eodore M. Critchfield, USA (RET) BMCM omas F. Crosby, USCG (RET) Mrs. Shirley B. Crowder SFC Ernest Crowder, Jr., USA (RET) COL J. Godfrey Crowe, USA (RET) SGT Jerald M. Crum, USA (VET) Mrs. Lillian A. Crusan MAJ Cecil W. Culpepper, Jr., USA (RET) Mrs. Gertrude L. Cummings LtCol Barbara A. Cummings, USAF (RET) Ms. Anne G. Cummings SMSgt Robert H. Cunningham, USAF (RET) Col C. M. Cunningham, Jr., USAF (RET) Mrs. Joyce I. Curling Mrs. Bettie B. Curry Ms. Bernice E. Curtis CPO Adrian Cyrouw, USN (RET) MCPO Prospero C. Dalimot, USCG (RET) LTC William B. Dalton, Jr., USA (RET) SCPO Robert J. Daly, Jr., USCG (RET) PVT Justin Daniel, USA (VET) MCPO Ralph J. Dankel, USCG (RET) 1SG Jahn David Danson, USA (RET) LTC Harold W. Darden, Jr., USA (RET) CWO-4 D. E. Darnauer, USCG (RET) Dr. Robert B. Daroff, M.D. Mrs. Mary E. Davenport MAJ Victoria C. Davidson, USA (RET) CPO Bertram B. Davies, USN (RET) SMSgt Billy G. Davis, USAF (RET) MAJ David W. Davis, USA (RET) PFC Sean D. Davis, USA (VET) Mrs. Flora M. Davis Col Frederick E. Davis, USAF (RET) MAJ John M. Davis, USA (RET) LtCol Janene B. Dawson, USAFR (RET) MSgt Edward De Frias, USAF (RET) Mrs. Nancy D. De Lara

CW3 John F. De Mello, USA (RET) COL Alexander Alex De Paoli, USA (RET) MSG Laverne Dean, USA (RET) Mrs. Marilyn B. Dearixon SFC Alfredo DeCiccio, USA (RET) ENCM Charles Deer, USN (RET) MGySgt Anthony DeGiovanni, USMC (RET) LTC Joseph V. Delena, USA (RET) CMSgt Bernard E. DeLisle, USAF (RET) Mrs. Jean Delph SSG John D. Dendy, USAFR (RET) COL Dan Dennison, USA (RET) MSgt Lloyd C. Descombes, USAF (RET) SGM David W. Dewald, USA (RET) Mrs. Patsy R. Dickey SGM Larry I. Dingman, USA (RET) CPT John L. Diotte, USA (RET) LTC Benjamin E. Dishman, USA (RET) CWO3 James W. DiVall, USAF (VET) SCPO Joseph G. Doby, USN (RET) LTC Charles T. Domasinsky, USA (RET) MSgt John J. Donahue, USAF (RET) TSgt Martin A. Donnelly, USAF (RET) Maj William E. Dorffi, USAF (RET) LTC Henry A. Douglas, USA (RET) MAJ James B. Dowds, USA (RET) CW5 William R. Drake, USA (RET) LtCol Erling R. Drangstveit, USAF (RET) LtCol Florence E. Drayden, USAF (RET) SGM Joachim Dreifuss, USA (RET) 1SG omas A. Driscoll, III, USA (RET) Mrs. Cora B. Drumgo MSgt Harley T. Duffy, USAF (RET) MSgt Ronald J. Duggan, USAF (RET) Mrs. Dorothea J. Duncan SFC Raymond J. Dundas, USA (RET) MAJ Florence I. Dunn, USA (RET) COL James F. Dunn, Jr., USA (RET) Mr. Stanley I. Dunning Mr. Jack C. Durham, Sr. PO1 Melvin J. Duso, USN (RET) Col Dean A. Dversdall, USAF (RET) SP6 Jesse C. Dyson, USA (RET) COL Jimmy W. Easterling, USA (RET) RMC Ronald L. Ebey, USN (RET) MSgt Douglas R. Eddins, USAF (RET) SMSgt Everett M. Edds, USAF (RET) MAJ Raymond H. Edgerly, USA (RET) MCPO Donald M. Edwards, USCG (RET) Mrs. Mary S. Effinger Mr. Dave Egeberg CMSgt Darrell Eidem, USAF (RET) 1SG Charles E. Eidson, USA (RET) LTC John T. Elliott, USA (RET) Mrs. Frances A. Elliott 1SG Joseph D. Ellis, USA (RET) Maj Daniel G. Emdee, USAF (RET) Col Robert H. Emerson, USAF (RET) COL Edward B. English, USA (RET) Mrs. Mildred S. Enoch Mrs. Virginia P. Enriquez EMC Edmund M. Ercole, Sr., USN (RET) LTC Richard A. Erickson, USA (RET) LTC Albert J. Erickson, USA (RET) A1C Clayton W. Erickson, USAF (RET) Mrs. Anna F. Estein Mrs. Dorcase E. Esty LCDR R. G. Evans, USCG (RET) PO1 Paul Evans, USN (RET) SFC Merlin L. Evered, USA (RET) SSG Howard J. Fair, Jr., AUS (RET) CDR Edward B. Farley, Jr., USN (RET) CPL Frederick A. Farley, USA (VET) MSG Joseph F. Farrell, USA (RET) SMSgt Geraldine K. Farrell, USAFR (RET) CWO4 Robert J. Farrimond, USMC (RET) SFC Harrison J. Faust, USA (RET) COL Howard E. Fauver, Jr., USA (RET) MSG Robert T. Fay, Sr., USA (RET) LtCol Georgia I. Feeney, USAFR (RET) MSgt E. C. Fergason, USAF (RET) MAJ Constance C. Ferrell, USA (RET) Mrs. Florence W. Ferriss Mrs. Keiko Fewel CSM Jay H. Field, USA (RET) COL Robert S. Fiero, USA (RET) LTC J. W. Fincher, USA (RET) MAJ John E. Finley, Jr., USA (RET) LtCol William Finlinson, USAFR (RET) LtCol James R. Firebaugh, Jr., USAF (RET) MSgt Edward P. Fischer, USAF (RET) CDR Lowell E. Fisher, USN (RET) COL Richard Flath, USA (RET) COL Henry A. Flertzheim, USA (RET) SSgt Dorothy G. Floyd, USAF (RET) LTG Robert F. Foley, USA (RET) MAJ Noel Folsom, AUS (RET) 1SG John J. Fomenko, USA (RET) LtCol Fred R. Fonck, USAF (RET) CAPT Donald K. Forbes, USN (RET) MAJ Louis C. Forget, USAR (RET) CAPT Phill Fossum, USN (RET)

GySgt John D. Foster, USMC (VET) Col John M. Franklin, USAF (RET) Mrs. Elaine F. Franklin Capt H. P. Freburger, Jr., USMC (RET) Col Dan W. Freeman, USAF (RET) CW2 Philson K. Freeman, Jr., USA (RET) Mrs. elma G. Freer CAPT Robert C. French, USN (RET) MCPO Joseph G. Friedman, USN (RET) MSgt Robert C. Fry, USAF (RET) CAPT John C. Fuechsel, USCG (RET) Col Elmer Funderburk, Jr., USAF (RET) PFC Luca A. Fusco, D.D.S., USA (RET) LTC John D. Gagin, USA (RET) SFC James B. Gaines, USA (RET) Maj Norman E. Gammons, USAF (RET) MSgt Joseph A. Garand, USAF (RET) CMSgt Eddie Garland, Jr., USAF (RET) Col Robert D. Garrison, USAF (RET) SFC Albert F. Garza, USA (RET) 1SG Charles F. Gates, USA (RET) Col William F. Gavitt, USAF (RET) Maj Leroy J. Gee, USAF (RET) LtCol omas J. Geist, USAF (RET) Lt Col omas J. Geist, USAF (RET) SFC Bobby L. George, USA (RET) 1SG Milton George, USA (RET) Mrs. Nellie Ruth Gerald Col George H. Gibson, USAF (RET) CWO-4 Walter W. Gibson, USAF (RET) CMSgt Robert M. Gill, USAF (RET) Mrs. Richard Gillen Col Brian J. Ginsburg, M.D., USAF (RET) PSG Richard H. Glass, USA (RET) 1LT Robert E. Glass, USA (RET) SFC Artis L. Godette, Jr., USA (RET) Mrs. Lois Godfrey LTC Wayne E. Godfrey, Sr., USA (RET) LtCol Robert E. Goetz, Jr., USAF (RET) COL Ray Gomez, Jr., USA (RET) LTC Alvaro R. Gonzalez, USA (RET) PFC Ismael Gonzalez, USA (RET) MAJ Phyllis J. Goodhue, USA (RET) CMSgt Leslie Goodwin, USAF (RET) Ms. Erika Gordon SGM Chester Goscicki, USA (RET) SFC John W. Gossman, USA (RET) LTC Barbara A. Gouldthorpe, USA (RET) Col Melvin Gourdin, USAF (RET) MSG Denis A. Graham, USA (RET) CDR Deborah L. Grant, USN (RET) TSgt James J. Grates, USAF (RET) MSgt Donald W. Greb, USAF (RET) SFC Jeffrey T. Green, USA (RET) LtCol Donald C. Green, USAF (RET) COL David C. Green, USA (RET) MCPO Donald R. Greenawalt, Jr., USCG (RET) CSM Arnold Greenberg, USA (RET) MSgt Larry E. Gregersen, USAF (RET) LtCol Lance Greve, USAF (RET) SGT Chester H. Griffis, USA (RET) CW3 Gordon L. Grimes, USA (RET) 1SG George W. Grimes, Jr., USA (RET) SFC Nelson D. Grindstaff, USA (RET) Mrs. Barbara L. Grooms CW4 John H. Grote, USA (RET) Mrs. Norma J. Grotnes Mrs. Anneliese Guerin SFC Vincent C. Guerra, USA (RET) SGM Leo Guest, USA (RET) MSG Wayne E. Guinn, USA (RET) MSG James R. Gummow, USA (RET) Ms. Mildred Gutschenritter Mrs. Isidra C. Guy CMSgt Philip S. Guzman, USAF (RET) SFC John M. Guzman, USA (RET) Mrs. Eva Jane Haaga CW4 George Hadley, USA (RET) Sgt Mark W. Haggerty, USAF (RET) LTC James R. Hahn, USA (RET) CSM William E. Hahs, USA (RET) COL Peter C. Hains, IV, USA (RET) COL Janet Fraser Hale, Ph.D., USAR (RET) MSG Malcolm J. Hale, USA (RET) MSgt Clinton C. Hall, Jr., USMC (RET) CMSgt Lawrence C. Hall, USAF (RET) 1SG Andrew J. Hall, USA (RET) Mrs. Barbara Halperin CWO-2 S. Paul Hamaker, USCG (RET) COL Bruce M. Hamilton, USA (RET) SFC Larry E. Hamilton, USA (RET) Mrs. Eva Hamm SGM Paul R. Hammond, USA (RET) LtCol William J. Hanig, USAF (RET) Capt Homer J. Hankins, USAF (RET) CMSgt Michael J. Hanley, USNG (RET) Capt Cecil W. Hannaford, USAFR (RET) CSM Harold E. Hansen, USA (RET) MSG David H. Hansen, USA (RET) Mrs. Betty J. Hanson CMSgt Donald A. Harada, USAF (RET) SFC James E. Haras, USA (RET)

LTC James W. Harbison, USA (RET) 1SG Aaron Hardy, USA (RET) Col Dolores J. Haritos, USAF (RET) LTC Alfonso A. Haro, Jr., USAR (RET) MSgt Ralph W. Harper, USNG (RET) LtCol Edward Harris, USAF (RET) CW2 Paul J. Harris, USA (RET) Mrs. Marjorie R. Harris Mrs. Tarciana M. Harris SSG Micholas A. Harris, USA CSM James W. Harrison, USA (RET) LtCol Ernest L. Harrison, Jr., USAF (RET) SFC Frederick D. Hart, USA (RET) Mrs. Catherine L. Hartley PO1 Jonathan Mark Hartmeister, USN (RET) Maj Leonard J. Hartnett, USAF (RET) SSgt Robert A. Hattendorf, USAF (RET) LtCol William G. Hause, USAF (RET) Maj Benjamin R. Hawkins, USAF (RET) MSgt Lewis M. Hawkins, USAF (RET) SSG Clarence H. Hayes, USA (RET) CW4 John A. Healy, USA (RET) CMSgt Joseph M. Heffernan, USAF (RET) Mrs. Geri Hema SGM Homer E. Henderson, USA (RET) CMSgt Jack Henderson, USAF (RET) LTC omas J. Hendricks, USA (RET) LTC Helen M. Henley, USA (RET) Mrs. Chai Y. Henn Col Eugene W. Henry, Ph.D., USAF (RET) Mrs. Fannie L. Henry COL Irene L. Herden, USAR (RET) SMSgt Robert E. Herman, USAF (RET) Maj Jerald J. Herring, USAF (RET) COL Robert G. Hertel, USA (RET) SFC George H. Herzog, USA (RET) Ms. Marleane M. Heth SSG Manasseh Hezekiah, USA (RET) MSgt John W. Hicks, USAF (RET) SGT Edna M. High, USA (VET) LTC Robert Darwin Hill, USA (RET) COL Jimmy C. Hill, USA (RET) Mrs. Dorothy J. Hiltner MSG Ben M. Hirano, USA (RET) CW4 Calvin Y. Hirohama, USA (RET) MAJ Richard C. Hirsch, USAR (RET) 1SG Kenneth W. Hobbs, USA (RET) Mrs. Penelope Hodge LtCol Edward J. Hoffmann, USAF (RET) MSG Ellis Holdiness, Jr., USA (RET) MSG Will J. Holland, USA (RET) MSgt Raymond A. Holland, USAF (RET) SFC Richard E. Holland, USA (RET) CW2 William T. Hollingsworth, USA (RET) Col William Bruce Holt, USAF (RET) Mrs. Carol E. Holton TSgt Kenneth H. Hommas, USAF (RET) Mr. Jim A. Huber Mr. Harold L. Hudson Col Larry B. Hughes, USAF (RET) 1stLt Lloyd E. Hugill, USAF (RET) 1SG Andrew Huley, Jr., USA (RET) Capt Logan B. Hull, USAF (RET) MAJ Marcus J. Humble, USA (RET) MSgt Curtis A. Hunigan, USAF (RET) SFC Ernest L. Hunkins, USA (RET) MSgt Charlie Hunter, USAF (RET) Capt Charles M. Huntington, Jr., USAF (RET) CPT John E. Huntoon, USA (RET) LtCol Claude J. Hurst, USAF (RET) LTC Harold E. Hutcheson, USA (RET) Mrs. Lis O. Hutton MSG Donald E. Hydorn, Sr., USA (RET) Maj Angelo M. Inglisa, USMC (RET) Mrs. Shirley Irvine TSgt Chester Isaac, USAF (RET) LTC Charles C. Isely, III, USA (RET) CPT William T. Ivy, USA (RET) MSgt Romey L. Jackson, USAF (RET) Capt Elijah Jackson, USAF (RET) CDR Timothy H. Jackson, USN (RET) LtCol Ralph Jaeger, USAF (RET) Mrs. Ingeborg Jagde 1stSgt Alfred Jainnini, Sr., USMC (RET) Rev. John James Ms. Dorothy R. Janutolo Mrs. Catherine Jarema SGM Helmut Jatho, USA (RET) YN1 David R. Jelley, USNR (RET) Mrs. Alice W. Jenkins Mrs. Edith Lorraine Jerkins Mrs. Delores Johnson LTC Anne T. Johnson, USA (RET) Col Kenneth D. Johnson, USAF (RET) SGM Richard S. Johnson, USA (RET) MSG Judy H. Johnson, USA (RET) CSM Wilma A. Johnson, USA (RET) TSgt Timothy K. Johnson, USAF (RET) CW2 Russell E. Johnson, USA (RET) Ms. Gloria E. Johnson SMSgt Manuel Joia, Jr., USAF (RET) CDR Sandra H. Jolly, USNR (RET)

Maj Roy S. Jones, USAF (RET) LTC Robert E. Jones, USA (RET) TSgt Frederick J. Jonischus, USAF (RET) LtCol David B. Kaahaaina, Sr., USNG (RET) LTC William R. Kaler, USA (RET) Mr. Ronald Kam Mrs. eresa L. N. Kapaona Mrs. Patricia A. Kaplan Col Peter H. Karalus, USAF (RET) Mrs. Joyce R. Karl SFC Edward S. Kawabata, USA (RET) CDR Michael Kawka, NOAA (RET) Col Gordon C. Kearl, USAF (RET) 1SG Leonard K. Keen, USA (RET) Col Richard B. Kehl, USAF (RET) SFC Carl C. Kelker, USA (RET) SFC John J. Kelleher, USA (RET) CPO Wayne S. Kelley, USN (RET) MCPO George J. Kelly, USN (RET) COL omas W. Kelly, USA (RET) LCDR Alfred Kemp, USN (RET) Mrs. Geneva H. Kendrick CAPT Paul A. Kenline, USPHS (RET) Ms. Mary Louise Kennon Col William D. Kent, USMC (RET) MMCM Lorraine Kentner, USN (RET) CAPT Robert E. Keppel, USN (RET) SFC Ralph P. Kerfoot, USA (RET) MSC Albert E. Kersey, USN (RET) Mrs. May Kershaw Ms. Blanche M. Kersting CW3 Everett C. Kessler, USA (RET) LTC Louis D. Kheriaty, USA (RET) Maj Leroy N. Kievian, USAF (RET) SSG James O. Kimble, USA (RET) 1SG Maurice G. King, USAR (RET) Mrs. Lela B. King LTC William H. King, USA (RET) Col omas L. Kirkham, USAF (RET) Maj Billy J. Kiser, USAF (RET) COL Richard A. Kitts, USA (RET) LtGen Jack W. Klimp, USMC (RET) SFC Joseph M. Klingman, USA (RET) CW5 Jeffrey M. Klintberg, USNG (RET) TSgt Raymond T. Klipsch, USAF (RET) Mrs. Louise P. Knauss SFC Billie L. Knight, USA (RET) Col William T. Knight, USAF (RET) Col James S. Knight, III, USAF (RET) LtCol Jane M. Knight, USAF (RET) SMSgt David C. Knueppel, USAF (RET) LtCol Daniel P. Kollay, USMC (RET) Mrs. Eleanor Korf MSgt David L. Kosik, USAF (RET) MSgt George Krach, USAFR (RET) COL George W. Krause, USA (RET) Mrs. Sylvia N. Krinke Mrs. Brenda L. Krostoski LTC Robert A. Krueger, USA (RET) Mrs. Neoma M. Krzykowski CSM Edward H. Kubo, USA (RET) SMCS Cliff W. Kuehl, USN (RET) SSG Stanley Kunda, USA (RET) LTC Nelson Kunitake, AUS (RET) CPT Stanley M. Kunitomo, USA (RET) MSG Richard W. Kyles, Jr., USA (RET) LTC Kenneth W. La Grandeur, USA (RET) MSgt Duane E. Lacy, USAF (RET) LTC Doile E. Lama, USA (RET) SFC David L. Lancaster, USA (RET) PFC Joseph A. Landry, USA (VET) BT1 Matthew B. Lane, USN (RET) MSgt Robert A. Larson, USAF (RET) MCPO Gaylord T. Larson, USN (RET) COL Richard K. Latshaw, USA (RET) COL Richard J. Lauttman, USA (RET) Ms. Mili Lay CSM John H. Leach, USMC (RET) Ms. Rita R. Lebeau MSgt Randolph D. Lee, USAF (RET) MSgt Richard B. Lemmings, USAF (RET) 1SG Emanuel Leon, USA (RET) SSG Donald F. Lepek, USA (RET) Ms. Patricia J. Lesko MSgt Pete T. Leyba, USAF (RET) MSgt Ward C. Lillard, USAF (RET) Maj George R. Lindquist, USAF (RET) LtCol William A. Lindstrand, USAF (RET) SFC Lincoln H. Linscott, USA (RET) Mrs. Dot E. Lipscomb Mrs. Elke C. Lisenby CSM Arthur F. Liska, USA (RET) Col Robert E. Listou, USAF (RET) CAPT Roger W. Lloyd, USN (RET) Mrs. Althea M. Logerquist COL Richard E. Lorix, USA (RET) 1SG Russell H. Lowder, USA (RET) SMSgt Charles W. Lowrey, USAF (RET) LtCol Royal C. Lua, USAF (RET) MAJ Virgil M. Lucky, USA (RET) Mrs. W. H. Luehlfing SMSgt Alexander Lukza, USAF (RET)

LTC James E. Lundy, USA (RET) CDR James D. Lutton, USN (RET) SFC R L. Lutz, USA (RET) TSgt Jack Lyckberg, USAF (RET) MSG Brent L. Lyman, USA (RET) LTC Kenderton S. Lynch, II, USA (RET) SFC William J. Lynen, USA (RET) LTC William Lysak, USA (RET) LTC Stanley F. Lyszcarz, USA (RET) Mrs. Carol Macefield Ms. Elizabeth Machado BGen Charles A. Machemehl, Jr., USAF (RET) CMSgt George B. Mackie, USAF (RET) CAPT Judith E. Maeda, USPHS (RET) Mrs. Gayle A. Maercklein MSgt Simplicio E. Magno, USMC (RET) MSG Peter W. Maiker, USA (RET) CMSgt Michael J. Malast, USAF (RET) Mrs. Patricia D. Mancuso Mrs. Norma J. Mangas SFC Donna R. Manley, USA (RET) COL omas J. Manning, USA (RET) TSgt William Manuel, USAF (RET) SMSgt Albert Joseph Maraschino, USAF (RET) SGT omas P. Marrinan, USA (RET) MSgt George C. Martin, Sr., USAF (RET) LTC Roberts R. Martin, USA (RET) CAPT William A. Martin, USN (RET) SK1 L. W. Martin, USN (RET) CAPT William B. Martin, USN (RET) 1SG Felix Marucha, USA (RET) Mr. omas R. Masino LTC Bobby S. Mason, USA (RET) SP6 omas G. Mason, USA (RET) LTC Robert A. Massey, USA (RET) Mrs. Ruth S. Masters LtCol Joseph C. Matechik, USAF (RET) MSG William H. Matherly, III, USA (RET) CDR omas D. Mathews, USN (RET) Mrs. Lela D. Matthews CPT omas V. Matuszek, USA (RET) Mrs. Shirley F. Maudlin SFC Charles Maxwell, USA (RET) CSM John W. Maxwell, USA (RET) BGen Paul A. Maye, USAF (RET) 1stSgt Robert M. Mayhugh, Jr., USMC (RET) MSgt Paul L. Maywald, USA (RET) MAJ Max W. McAllister, USA (RET) COL Richard J. McCarty, USA (RET) In memory of MSG Carl H. McClure, USA

by Mrs. Maria McClure SFC Debra McClure, USA (RET) CDR Robert B. McComb, USN (RET) Ms. Mary E. McCoslin BGen William L. McCulloch, USMC (RET) LTC Bruce B. McDonough, USA (RET) MSG William J. McFeeley, USA (RET) COL James F. McGillivray, USA (RET) EMC(DV) Michael L. McGuire, USNR (RET) PVT Charles R. McGuire, USA (RET) Mrs. Jane A. McIntosh Col Roger W. McLain, USAF (RET) COL Robert B. McLean, M.D., USA (RET) LtCol Larry L. McMaster, USAF (RET) LtCol George W. McMichael, Jr., USAF (RET) Ms. Joo Ja McMillen Ms. Sally A. McNeil Mrs. Carol D. McQueen CW3 Lindy D. McTier, USA (RET) 1SG Mark A. Mead, USA (RET) 1stSgt Raymond W. Meaney, USMC (RET) LtCol Dallace L. Meehan, USAF (RET) Col Edwin R. Megonegal, Jr., USAF (RET) CWO-4 Donald A. Meier, USCG (RET) MAJ Roger F. Meissner, USA (RET) SMSgt Richard P. Meixner, USAF (RET) COL Jan C. Mennig, Ph.D., USA (RET) SSG Charles W. Menz, USA (RET) LtCol William J. Metcalf, Jr., USAF (RET) AT1 Dallas G. Miley, Sr., USN (RET) 1SG Richard G. Miller, USA (RET) MSG Lee D. Miller, USA (RET) COL George M. Miller, Jr., USA (RET) Mr. Linus M. Miller CPT David R. Miller, USA (RET) LtCol Richard O. Miller, USAF (RET) MSG L. C. Miller, USA (RET) CAPT James E. Mills, USPHS (RET) LtCol omas Belford Mills, USAF (RET) Mrs. Marianne Milner SFC Marshall W. Mines, USA (RET) Mrs. Shirley E. Minor SFC Porfirio S. Miranda, USA (RET) HMO-3 Hector Miranda, USN (RET) SFC Albert F. Mirus, Sr., USA (RET) Maj Joseph C. Mitchell, Jr., USMC (RET) Mr. James A. Mitchell 1SG William L. Mitchell, USA (RET) Ms. Carol A. Mizgorski Maj Robert E. Mobley, USAF (RET) Maj David F. Mockler, USAF (RET) DTCM Herman Moeller, USN (RET)

Mrs. Jean Mollere Col Henry B. Mon, USAF (RET) MSgt James P. Monahan, USAF (RET) 1SG Clarence S. Montgomery, USA (RET) SMSgt William M. Moon, USAF (RET) CDR Donald A. Mooney, USCG (RET) LTC Eddie E. Moore, USA (RET) Mrs. Audrey D. Moore CW4 Basil O. Moore, Jr., USA (RET) Col Alfred H. Moore, USMC (RET) LtCol Donald R. Moore, USAFR (RET) Mrs. Judith L. Moore Col Michael W. Moore, USAF (RET) SFC Sidney R. Moore, USA (RET) SGT Raymond A. Moreno, ARNG (RET) CMSgt Billy J. Morford, USAF (RET) Maj Arvel R. Morgan, USAF (RET) MSgt R. W. Morgan, USAF (RET) Col James K. Morris, USAF (RET) Mrs. Vera L. Morris SGT George R. Morris, USA (VET) CPO Albert E. Morris, USCG (RET) LTC William L. Morris, USA (RET) CSM Douglas L. Morris, USA (RET) COL Kenneth L. Morrison, USA (RET) Mrs. Marta Maria Morrissey MSG Robert K. Morton, USA (RET) LtCol George F. Mosey, USAF (RET) Mrs. Frances W. Mount TSgt William R. Mracek, USAF (RET) SGM Bert J. Mueck, USA (RET) Col Donald L. Muir, USAF (RET) MSG Douglas Muircro, USA (RET) Mrs. Beth L. Mullinax 1SG Martin Munsen, Jr., USA (RET) LtCol Francis M. Murphy, USAF (RET) LtCol Alan C. Murphy, USAF (RET) MSG Maxwell L. Musgrove, USA (RET) LCDR Richard C. Myers, USN (RET) CMSgt Mckline C. Myers, USAF (RET) Mrs. Glenice S. Myers COL omas P. Nack, USA (RET) MSG Lloyd Napier, USA (RET) Mrs. Karin Naron PFC William P. Nation, USA (VET) Mrs. Dorothy A. Nau Mrs. Helga Neal LTC Kenneth J. Necessary, USA (RET) CW4 Russell Neesmith, USA (RET) CMSgt John E. Nelson, USAF (RET) LtCol Floyd A. Nelson, USAF (RET) 1SG Silas E. Nelson, Sr., USA (RET) TSgt Stephen K. Newman, USAF (RET) CMSgt Arvel E. Newsom, USAF (RET) 1SG Henry E. Nolan, Sr., USA (RET) CWO-3 Arthur G. Nolan, USN (RET) Mrs. Elizabeth Nolen Mrs. Susan L. Norby Mrs. Eva W. Norris Ms. Ena V. Norris COL Forrest P. Norrod, Jr., USA (RET) SGM Herbert F. Nosaka, USA (RET) LTC S. A. Nowak, USA (RET) RADM Harley D. Nygren, NOAA (RET) MSgt Charles C. Oakes, USAF (RET) COL John A. O’Brien, USA (RET) SGM Robert J. O’Brien, USA (RET) MSG omas A. O’Connell, USAR (RET) CW4 Patrick F. O’Connors, USA (RET) Mrs. Edith G. Oda LtCol King B. Odell, Jr., USAF (RET) Mrs. Yvonne O’Drain Mr. Mark Oetinger SFC John H. Ogle, USA (RET) Mrs. Neva Ogle LCDR Glenn Ohanesian, USNR (RET) Mrs. Mildred I. Ohmer Maj Ronald R. Olson, USAF (RET) COL George R. O’Neal, USA (RET) TSgt Daniel O’Neill, USAF (RET) SFC Mike G. Orendock, USA (RET) Col Leopold Ortiz, USAF (RET) MSG David E. Osgood, USA (RET) MSG Francis Patrick Ostrem, USA (RET) MSG Henry A. Ostrowski, Sr., USA (RET) COL John J. Ott, USA (RET) CPO Carroll J. Overman, USN (RET) LTC Daniel M. Owens, USA (RET) CPO Billy E. Pack, USN (RET) PO1 Victoriano Padlan, USN (RET) Col William D. Palmer, Jr., USAFR (RET) Ms. Marlene A. Paone LTG Ellis D. Parker, USA (RET) Ms. Carolyn S. Parks Mrs. Marion F. Parmley LTC omas E. Parr, USA (RET) CW4 Robert J. Parrotte, USA (RET) SSG Richard B. Partridge, USNG (RET) Mrs. Faye Patin LtCol Robert E. Patrick, Jr., USAF (RET) MAJ James C. Patterson, USA (RET) SMSgt Clifford Patterson, USAF (RET)

Maj F. D. Patterson, USMC (RET) SMSgt James A. Patterson, Jr., USAF (RET) SFC Raymond L. Pavlik, USA (RET) Mr. David S. Pearson Col David L. Peebles, USAF (RET) Ms. Anne B. Pendleton MSgt Paul D. Perry, USAF (RET) HTC Richard Perry, USN (RET) SCPO Wendell E. Perry, USN (RET) SFC Edward L. Peters, USA (RET) CDR Royce E. Pettit, Jr., USN (RET) SMSgt Paul L. Pezant, USAF (RET) CMSgt Kent R. Pfremmer, USAF (RET) Col James H. Phifer, Jr., USAF (RET) CAPT Gordon Philips, MM (VET) LtCol James M. Phillips, USAF (RET) LCDR Donald R. Phillips, USN (RET) LTC Mark T. Pilgrim, USA (RET) MSgt Joseph H. Pinkett, Jr., USAF (RET) COL Karl P. Piotrowski, USA (RET) SFC Arthur L. Piper, USA (RET) COL Homer S. Pitzer, Jr., USA (RET) CMSgt Vincent C. Pizzo, USAF (RET) Mrs. Dolores M. Plasewicz Mrs. M. Joann Plotkin CWO4 Billie R. Pool, USA (RET) LTC Donald C. Porter, USA (RET) Mrs. Shirley E. Potter SMSgt Galen R. Poulin, USAF (RET) SGM Grant J. Powers, USA (RET) LTC George F. Prater, USA (RET) SGM James E. Prescott, USA (RET) LTC Samuel A. Prestipino, USA (RET) SFC James Prioleau, Jr., USA (RET) MSgt Garland H. Privett, USAF (RET) COL James H. Proctor, Jr., USA (RET) Mrs. Maria Propp LCDR John E. Provencal, USN (RET) SSG Quennon T. Purify, USA (RET) MSG B. E. Putnam, USA (RET) LTC Gordon S. Quesenberry, USA (RET) Mr. Joe Quilici SGM Samuel R. Quincey, USA (RET) Mrs. Dorothy T. Rabe MSgt Duane A. Radke, USAF (RET) SFC George M. Radvansky, USA (RET) CMSgt Warren N. Ramsey, USAF (RET) Sgt John J. Rankin, USAF (RET) RADM Ricardo A. Ratti, USCG (RET) CAPT Charles F. Rau, USN (RET) MSG Charles H. Ray, Jr., USA (RET) TSgt James O. Ray, USAF (RET) LTC Oliver F. Raymond, USA (RET) CAPT Ronald R. Reaume, USCG (RET) TSgt Buddy L. Reece, USAF (RET) CDR Carl D. Reed, USPHS (RET) LTG Benjamin F. Register, Jr., USA (RET) Mr. Don C. Rehwaldt Capt John Reid, USAF (RET) CMSgt Charles E. Renfrow, USAF (RET) COL Gene B. Reniker, USA (RET) MSG Manuel Renta, Jr., USA (RET) LTC Robert E. Resch, USA (RET) LtCol Cletus J. Reuter, USAF (RET) SGM William Reyes-Beauchamp, USA (RET) CSM Andrew E. Reyna, USA (RET) BUC Rod D. Reynolds, USN (RET) LTC Cephus S. Rhodes, USA (RET) PCC Frank G. Rhodes, USN (RET) LtCol omas J. Rice, Jr., USAF (RET) COL Bert L. Rice, USA (RET) CWO-4 Charles E. Richey, USCG (RET) COL Frank W. Richnak, USA (RET) Mrs. Betty L. Rickett Mrs. Lillie J. Riemer SFC Curtis L. Rigg, USA (RET) COL Nelson E. Ringmacher, USA (RET) SgtMaj Frank Riojas, USMC (RET) TSgt James A. Rippy, USAF (RET) Ms. Joyce Snead Ritch LCDR Don W. Ritter, USN (RET) CSM Carlyle Rivenbark, USA (RET) Mrs. Marilyn Robbins Mrs. Ethel E. Roberts MAJ George W. Roberts, USA (RET) Mrs. Mabel C. Roberts MSG James H. Robertson, USA (VET) LtCol Frank H. Robertson, USAF (RET) 1SG Harold R. Robertson, USA (RET) Ms. Patricia A. Robinson TSgt William C. Robinson, USAF (RET) Maj James R. Rodgers, USAF (RET) CMSgt Cesar A. Rodriguez, USAF (RET) Col Reynaldo A. Rodriguez, USAF (RET) LtCol Peter H. Roe, USAF (RET) LTC Lorraine A. Roehl, USA (RET) SGT James D. Roehrig, USA (RET) CPT Ernest A. Rogers, USA (RET) LtCol Robert G. Rollins, USAF (RET) MSgt John M. Roman, USAF (RET) Mrs. Magda F. Romano

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Patricia Walker National SMW President kara7072@aol.com www.militarywidows.org Established 1968 • Affiliated 1984

Put away your coats, but keep the sweaters handy. Step outside and look up at the big blue sky, watching big fluffy clouds float by and imagine the rolling hills and sweeping plains of Texas. Shake off the vision of John Wayne or Gary Cooper riding the plains and make plans to join the Society of Military Widows for our annual meeting in modern San Antonio, October 11-15, 2016.

We will meet at the Historic Menger Hotel where Teddy Roosevelt recruited men for the Rough Riders. Across the street we will wander the sacred grounds of the Alamo by day or join the Ghost Walk around the plaza at dusk.

Behind the hotel is access to the River Walk with wonderful dining, river tours and all kinds of adventure. There is a huge shopping mall just outside the side door of the hotel. Horse drawn carriages and sightseeing buses pull right up to the front door. With so many opportunities for things to do, delicious dining and fellowship with friends, you can’t be bored.

Come in a day early and we will visit to the historic German town of Fredericksburg and the National Museum of the Pacific War, Home of the Admiral Nimitz Museum and the Japanese Garden of Peace, a gift from the people of Japan. Join us and find out why the ADMIRAL is honored in a sea of sand far from any large body of water. Shop the quaint shops and have lunch at a famous German restaurant before we return to the Menger in time to greet everyone at our opening reception.

We have business to take care of, friends to meet and memories to make. Join us to help determine our future and install our new officers. Bring friends, family and interested guests who might like to know more about us. I will be looking forward to seeing you again, thanking you for your support during my presidency and turning over the reins to our new president and board. See you in San Antonio!

Call to Convention

2016 Convention Registration • October 11 thru 15, 2016, San Antonio, TX Full Name: _______________________________________________ Chapter No: _________ Arrival Date: _______________ Address: _____________________________________________________ City:_________________ Zip Code:____________ Phone: _____________________ Cell Phone: ______________________ Email: _____________________________________ Emergency Contact: _______________________________ Phone: __________________ Relationship: ___________________ [Address/Phone if not staying at Hotel: ________________________________________________Phone:_________________ List any special needs: 1) Dietarys: _____________________________2) Other ______________________________________ Arrival Date and Time: _______________________________________________________ Driving:_______ Flying:______

Registration Fee for Members Includes: **REGISTRATIONS DUE BY SEPTEMBER 10** (after 9/10/16 $10 late fee)

Member

Guest

Admin Fee:

$25.00

$25.00

Mail Registration to: Cathy McGraw 4374 Via San Jose, Riverside, CA 92504

Tues:Welcome Reception:

$35.00

$35.00

Wed: Memorial Service/Lunch:

$47.00

$47.00

Phone: (951) 525-3561/316-5073 Email: clmcgraw@hotmail.com

Thurs: Meetings & Workshops:

$10.00

$10.00

Friday Luncheon:

$35.00

$35.00

Saturday Banquet: Choose: Fish __ or Chicken___

$60.00

$60.00

$212.00

$212.00

$67.00

$67.00

$279.00

$279.00

**Attendees must make their own Hotel reservations** The Historic MENGER HOTEL, located next to the Alamo and the River Walk.

Best: Call 1 (210) 223-4361 [or 1 (800) 345-9285] and ask for in-house reservations for group: Society of Military Widows. **Must ask for refrigerator for medication when reserving.** OR on-line: http://bit.ly/28ZmT2t Hotel Rooms: $133/night + taxes = @$156, single or double occupancy, and for the Historic Wing Rooms: $139/night + taxes = @$163.

Hotel Parking: $20/Day *Airport: San Antonio International. *Taxi = $26 Each way; OR GO Airport Shuttle =$34-$37 Round trip.

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Total Registration: Member OPTIONAL TOURS:

Tuesday: Fredericksburg:

TOTAL REGISTRATION & OPTIONS: TOTAL FEES ENCLOSED:

The Guardian Summer 20166

SMW Election 2016 Candidates President Elect: Catherine McGraw

Cathy McGraw has been a member of SMW for 44 years and a member of Chapter 13, Riverside, CA since it was founded in 1980. She served in the Navy herself and has been a Navy widow since 1973. Currently serving her third term as National Treasurer, she has also held most offices at the chapter level and served as the National Chaplain.

Secretary: Shirley Keegan

Shirley Keegan joined Chapter 5 in Sacramento, CA in 2009. She has served as their VP for two years and has served as SW Regional VP for two years. She moved to Hawaii and is now a member of Chapter 25. She is now asking for your support to serve as SMW National Secretary.

Treasurer: Shirley McCormack

Shirley McCormack joined Ventura County, CA Chapter 40 in 2007. She has served as their president for several years and also took on the responsibilities of treasurer when

Cora Turner passed away over a year ago. Shirley has worked for K-Mart for 24 years. She also worked on Naval Base Port Hueneme for eighteen of those 24 years. She has experience in payroll, bookkeeping and accounting.

Eastern RVP: [FL, MD] Barbara Scott

Barbara Scott has been a member of Chapter #35 [Tampa Bay] since 2008. She has served her chapter as caller and then vice president for two years and president for the past four years. In addition she is willing to take on the responsibilities of Regional VP. Central RVP: [KS, OK, TX] Carol Widmer

Carol Widmer has served as North Central VP for several years and is willing to serve again in the new Central Region. She is a member of Chapter 28 in Wichita, KS, since 2008 and she has served as vice president. She joined SMW to learn from others and respects her peers as strong survivors.

Her goal is to encourage and enjoy friendships while sharing information and experience.

Northwest RVP: [CA#5&#9, CO, WA] Betty Luttkus

Betty Luttkus is a SMW member from Colorado since 1999. She has held the office of chapter secretary, vice president and president multiple times. She is currently NW Regional VP and was National Special Services Chair for our conventions in Washington, DC and Branson, MO. She is a retired nurse, a professional clown and has hosted monthly sewing/ crafts meetings in her home while volunteering weekly at the Buckley AFB Pharmacy.

Southwest Regional VP: [AZ, CA - #2, #13, #40, HI, NV] Alicia Gonzalez

Alicia Gonzalez joined SMW in 2005 after a marriage of 51 years that was blessed with four sons and two grandsons. She has served her chapter in Tucson as treasurer, president-elect and president. She also served as chair of the National Nominating Committee in 2014. She has been active in the American Business Women’s Association for 42 years, and in 2011 received the ABWA Woman of the Year Award for the State of Arizona. She retired from the Tucson Police Department in 2007 after thirty-six years as a Records Supervisor.

SMW Official Mail –In Ballot for the 2016-2018 Executive Board of Directors

Instructions: Mark your vote next to the candidates name. Except for each region shall elect its own Vice President. Cast one vote for the candidate from the region that includes your state. SMW President shall have the power to appoint a Vice President.

Mail Completed Ballot To: SMW Teller Committee Chair Ms. Jan Rasmussen 9221 W.H. Burges Dr. El Paso, TX 79925- 5116

Ballots must received by September 10

According to the provisions of the SMW By-Laws, the President-Elect, Regional Vice Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer shall be elected by Mail –In Ballot.

The Nominating Committee presents the following candidates who have submitted their written consent to serve. Officers shall serve a term of two years.

They shall assume office at the close of the 2016 Annual Banquet.

All Chapter and At-Large Members in good standing are eligible to vote.

The Nominees: President-Elect: o Catherine McGraw Secretary: o Shirley Keegan

Eastern RVP [FL, MD]: Central RVP [KS, OK, TX]: Northwest RVP [CA- #5&#9, CO, WA]: Southwest RVP [AZ, CA - #2, #13, #40, HI, NV]: Southeast (GA, NC, SC, KY, TN, MS, AL, FL):

Treasurer: o Shirley McCormack

o Barbara Scott o Carol Widmer o Betty Luttkus o Alicia Gonzalez o Joyce Dieckhaus

Name:_____________________________________________________________

Address:____________________________________________________________

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Membership #:________________________________________ (found on label of NAUS GUARDIAN)

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Our SMW Legislative Conference Calls are continuing over the summer months. The calls are always on the 4th Wednesday of each month. Time is always 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. Central, and 5:00 p.m. Pacific. The Call-in number is: 1-712Janet Snyder 432-1212; access code: 227-271-456# -- If you have questions Legislative Chair, Society of Military Widows about the speaker and/or topic, please call or send me an e-mail.

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The 3 Easiest Ways to Leave Your Legacy

Although many people think of a will as the easiest way to transfer assets after their lifetime, it doesn’t cover everything. In fact, retirement plans, IRAs, life insurance and commercial annuities are not controlled by the terms of your will, but instead use separate beneficiary forms to determine who receives them. These beneficiary designations trump your will when it comes to passing along these assets at your death, making them effective and easy ways to leave a legacy.

If you want to make a difference at NAUS after your lifetime, consider a tax-wise gift from your retirement plan or IRA. Here’s why.

A retirement plan or IRA is typically the largest source of assets that generate taxable income when paid to a beneficiary. More than half of your 1. Retirement Plans and IRAs retirement plan assets could be subject to income and estate taxes. Therefore, if you are considering a gift to NAUS after your lifetime, it is usually better to leave taxable assets to NAUS and give nontaxable assets (such as stocks and real estate) to your loved ones.

To complete your gift, simply contact your retirement plan or IRA administrator and complete a beneficiary designation form naming the National Association for Uniformed Services as beneficiary and the percentage you’d like us to receive (1-100). Then mail it back to the plan administrator and keep a copy for your records. Beneficiary forms are filled out on your terms and can be changed at any time.

Maybe you once needed life insurance for your loved ones, but now your family’s requirements have changed. Why not use the insurance policy to help advance the NAUS mission? Not only will you make a substantial gift at a relatively low cost, but it is revocable at any time should you need to change your plans.

You can designate NAUS as the beneficiary for a percentage of your life insurance policy’s death benefit. You choose whatever percent you desire.

2. Life Insurance Policies To complete your future gift, contact your insurance company or agent and request and complete a beneficiary designation form. Then mail it back to the insurance company. Keep a copy for your records.

Commercial annuities are tax-heavy assets to own, similar to retirement plans and IRAs. They carry an income tax burden when paid to your named 3. Commercial Annuities beneficiary. The income tax is due on the growth of the annuity—in other words, what its value is worth when you die over what you paid for it. The tax burden makes these assets another popular choice to leave to a tax-exempt organization like NAUS. Similar to the process for making gifts of retirement plan assets and life insurance, to complete a gift from your insurance annuity, contact your insurance company or its agent for a change-of-beneficiary form for the annuity. Decide what percentage of the annuity’s value you would like NAUS to receive and name the National Association for Uniformed Services along with the stated percentage on the beneficiary form. Then mail it back to the insurance company and keep a copy for your records.

How to Obtain Beneficiary Forms - Retirement plans and IRAs. Contact the administrator of your retirement plan or IRA. Life insurance. Contact the life insurance company or your agent. • Insurance annuities. Contact the insurance company or your agent.

The Importance of Updating Your Designations - Beneficiary designations can be modified at any time to meet your changing needs. Your assets may never reach your intended recipients if you’ve failed to keep the beneficiary designations up For more information, please contact NAUS Director of Development, to date. Experts suggest reviewing them every two to three years Maggie Nayyar at mnayyar@naus.org or 1-800-842-3451 ext. 1005. when you review your entire estate plan.

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