The Tricare Management Activity has produced a new and improved handbook for beneficiaries covered under Tricare Standard, the basic cost per service option. Readers may access the handbook here.
Retired Col. Carlyle "Smitty" Harris, known for introducing the "tap code" by which American POWs in North Vietnam could surreptitiously communicate with one another, died July 6. Harris was brutalized by the North Vietnamese over almost eight years of captivity.