The Joint Chiefs of Staff will support the Pentagon plan to increase Tricare fees for military retirees and their families, according to Tom Philpott, contributing editor to Air Force Magazine. The planned increases, to be included in the 2007 defense budget proposal, would raise enrollment fees and deductibles over the next three years for retirees under age 65. Watch this space for more particulars.
Active-Duty Airmen only have a few days left to submit an official waist-to-height ratio into the Air Force’s new online application. But the service clarified July 23 that this first body composition measurement is not meant to be scored as part of the new Physical Fitness Readiness Assessment, or PFRA