The term “snail mail” to apply to regular mail as opposed to e-mail may take on a whole new meaning for thousands of military retirees who live overseas and receive their government stipends and Tricare pharmacy prescriptions via State Department APO/FPO addresses. State plans to divorce itself from the DOD APO/FPO mail system, going on Dec. 3 with a new Diplomatic Post Office address that will lock out some 4, 800 military retirees. According to The Military Coalition, which sent a letter of protest to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this month, the retirees will be forced “to use foreign mail systems that in some parts of the world can be slow, unreliable or expensive.” TMC asks Clinton to explore “possible alternatives” before the plan goes into effect “to not penalize military retirees for choosing to live abroad.”
Advancements in commercial space technology could make President Donald Trump’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense network far more likely to succeed than the failed “Star Wars” strategic umbrella initiative of the 1980s, U.S. Space Command’s top general said May 22....