All:
Please give this your widest and expeditious dissemination. Cut, paste and modify as you deem appropriate, but please do
something to advance and promote the authorization for funding of Concurrent Receipt of military retired pay and VA
disability compensation. Remember, Congress and Congress alone can make it happen. They created the problem in 1891
and they now have the power and authority to rectify the problem. Contact your Senator and Congressperson (especially
if they are members of the House Budget Committee) THIS WEEK, as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff listed below.
Remember, President Bush enacted Concurrent Receipt into law on 12/28/01; however, absent of funding. Our Country is
at war and our current active duty forces who are eligible for retirement, will also become victim to Concurrent Receipt (if
found disabled by the VA) once injured, wounded or become ill. And then only to be followed by those that will retire down
the road. Write, call or fax the President as well.
Thank you all very much for your continued support in fighting this battle.
Stay focused and remain tenacious.
God Bless you and America!
Don G. Tyson
LT/MCPO (SEAL), USN, Ret.
Member
DAV (Life), VFW (Life), USDR,
FRA, TROA
===============================================================================================
CONGRESS APPROPRIATED
$180 Billion for proposed Farm Bill bailout
$ 40 Billion for Railroad bailout
$ 15 Billion for Airline bailout
$ Undisclosed taxpayers dollars for Pet Pork Barrel spending in Congressional Districts
$ Enormous dollars for their own retirement
VS.
CONGRESS HAS FAILED TO APPROPRIATE
$600 Million (for the most severely disabled military retirees) to an estimated $3-$5 Billion
to partially or fully fund Concurrent Receipt, annually. Disabled Military Retirees must
fund their own disability by offsetting, dollar for dollar, from their own hard earned retirement.
Therefore, you, The Congress, respond now or we, The People, will respond in
November 2002, November 2004 and each election thereafter until justice has been
restored to all disabled military retirees and veterans alike.
Sincerely,
(Your name and address here)
===============================================================================================
House Budget Committee to Decide on Concurrent Receipt
The effort to stop forcing disabled military retirees to fund their own
veterans' disability compensation from their earned military retired pay
will face its first serious test of the year next Wednesday, when the
House Budget Committee will draft its version of the FY2003 Budget
Resolution. The Senate Budget Committee will take up its version soon
after.
Representatives from TROA, The Military Coalition, and other associations
will again visit House Budget Committee members' offices early next week
to convince them to put significant concurrent receipt relief provisions
in the resolution. One would think this would be academic with 86% of
House members cosponsoring Bilirakis' H.R. 303, including 37 of 43 Budget
Committee members. But in the past, cosponsorship hasn't translated to
active support. That needs to change this year.
House and Senate Budget Committee members hold the key as they consider in
the next week whether or not to include the funding headroom in the FY
2003 Budget Resolution. Grassroots activism counts. So please, use
TROA's toll-free Capitol Hill Hot Line
(1-877-762-8762) to contact your legislators and urge them to do
everything in their power to ensure the Budget Resolution provides funding
"headroom" for concurrent receipt of military retired pay and VA
disability compensation. Alternatively, use TROA's Web site to send a
prepared message to your legislator at
http://capwiz.com/troa/issues/alert/?alertid=90049&type=CO ..
This is especially important if your U.S. Representative sits on the
Budget Committee. A list of those committee members can be found at
http://www.house.gov/budget/members.htm ..
In the Senate Armed Services Committee this week, Senators Levin and Warner ended the Hearing with the Service
Chiefs with expressions of their belief that something needed to be done to end the disability compensation offset to
military retired pay. Sen. Levin said that concurrent receipt is a very significant equity issue and that both he and Sen.
Warner have written letters to the Senate Budget Committee Chairman requesting support. They asked the Service
Chiefs to provide written comments for the Hearing record on this issue.
Write/Fax your former Service chiefs (Not the appointed Secretaries) at the following addresses this coming week with
expressions of support. My advise is to tell them about the 600M or HR 65 solution as a viable alternative, should full
funding fail. Remember, the "foot in the door" (partial funding) now and the rest later, is far better than nothing, as has
been done for the past 112 years! Also, remind them that they too might become victim to Concurrent Receipt once
retired. Sorry, but the only number I have is for the DOD Pentagon operator (703) 545-6700 (it's the weekend) - but it's a
start to get the other numbers for the following:
Service Chiefs and Chairman
Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301
Gen. Eric K. Shinseki
Chief of Staff of the Army
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20310
Adm. Vern Clark
Chief of Naval Operations
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20350
Gen. John P. Jumper
Chief of Staff of the Air Force
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20330
Gen. James L. Jones
Commandant of the Marine Corps
HQ US Marine Corps
2 Navy Annex
Washington, DC 20380-1775
Please give this your widest and expeditious dissemination. Cut, paste and modify as you deem appropriate, but please do
something to advance and promote the authorization for funding of Concurrent Receipt of military retired pay and VA
disability compensation. Remember, Congress and Congress alone can make it happen. They created the problem in 1891
and they now have the power and authority to rectify the problem. Contact your Senator and Congressperson (especially
if they are members of the House Budget Committee) THIS WEEK, as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff listed below.
Remember, President Bush enacted Concurrent Receipt into law on 12/28/01; however, absent of funding. Our Country is
at war and our current active duty forces who are eligible for retirement, will also become victim to Concurrent Receipt (if
found disabled by the VA) once injured, wounded or become ill. And then only to be followed by those that will retire down
the road. Write, call or fax the President as well.
Thank you all very much for your continued support in fighting this battle.
Stay focused and remain tenacious.
God Bless you and America!
Don G. Tyson
LT/MCPO (SEAL), USN, Ret.
Member
DAV (Life), VFW (Life), USDR,
FRA, TROA
===============================================================================================
CONGRESS APPROPRIATED
$180 Billion for proposed Farm Bill bailout
$ 40 Billion for Railroad bailout
$ 15 Billion for Airline bailout
$ Undisclosed taxpayers dollars for Pet Pork Barrel spending in Congressional Districts
$ Enormous dollars for their own retirement
VS.
CONGRESS HAS FAILED TO APPROPRIATE
$600 Million (for the most severely disabled military retirees) to an estimated $3-$5 Billion
to partially or fully fund Concurrent Receipt, annually. Disabled Military Retirees must
fund their own disability by offsetting, dollar for dollar, from their own hard earned retirement.
Therefore, you, The Congress, respond now or we, The People, will respond in
November 2002, November 2004 and each election thereafter until justice has been
restored to all disabled military retirees and veterans alike.
Sincerely,
(Your name and address here)
===============================================================================================
House Budget Committee to Decide on Concurrent Receipt
The effort to stop forcing disabled military retirees to fund their own
veterans' disability compensation from their earned military retired pay
will face its first serious test of the year next Wednesday, when the
House Budget Committee will draft its version of the FY2003 Budget
Resolution. The Senate Budget Committee will take up its version soon
after.
Representatives from TROA, The Military Coalition, and other associations
will again visit House Budget Committee members' offices early next week
to convince them to put significant concurrent receipt relief provisions
in the resolution. One would think this would be academic with 86% of
House members cosponsoring Bilirakis' H.R. 303, including 37 of 43 Budget
Committee members. But in the past, cosponsorship hasn't translated to
active support. That needs to change this year.
House and Senate Budget Committee members hold the key as they consider in
the next week whether or not to include the funding headroom in the FY
2003 Budget Resolution. Grassroots activism counts. So please, use
TROA's toll-free Capitol Hill Hot Line
(1-877-762-8762) to contact your legislators and urge them to do
everything in their power to ensure the Budget Resolution provides funding
"headroom" for concurrent receipt of military retired pay and VA
disability compensation. Alternatively, use TROA's Web site to send a
prepared message to your legislator at
http://capwiz.com/troa/issues/alert/?alertid=90049&type=CO ..
This is especially important if your U.S. Representative sits on the
Budget Committee. A list of those committee members can be found at
http://www.house.gov/budget/members.htm ..
In the Senate Armed Services Committee this week, Senators Levin and Warner ended the Hearing with the Service
Chiefs with expressions of their belief that something needed to be done to end the disability compensation offset to
military retired pay. Sen. Levin said that concurrent receipt is a very significant equity issue and that both he and Sen.
Warner have written letters to the Senate Budget Committee Chairman requesting support. They asked the Service
Chiefs to provide written comments for the Hearing record on this issue.
Write/Fax your former Service chiefs (Not the appointed Secretaries) at the following addresses this coming week with
expressions of support. My advise is to tell them about the 600M or HR 65 solution as a viable alternative, should full
funding fail. Remember, the "foot in the door" (partial funding) now and the rest later, is far better than nothing, as has
been done for the past 112 years! Also, remind them that they too might become victim to Concurrent Receipt once
retired. Sorry, but the only number I have is for the DOD Pentagon operator (703) 545-6700 (it's the weekend) - but it's a
start to get the other numbers for the following:
Service Chiefs and Chairman
Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301
Gen. Eric K. Shinseki
Chief of Staff of the Army
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20310
Adm. Vern Clark
Chief of Naval Operations
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20350
Gen. John P. Jumper
Chief of Staff of the Air Force
The Pentagon
Washington, DC 20330
Gen. James L. Jones
Commandant of the Marine Corps
HQ US Marine Corps
2 Navy Annex
Washington, DC 20380-1775
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