A new email arrived advising:
“Your DS Logon (DSL) account will be deactivated in 30 calendar days due to inactivity.”
You must go and set up a new user name and password every so often. Or do I have this wrong?
A tortuous process awaits.
This whole thing should be no more tricky to use than an Amazon account.
People have been using the web at home for 25 years. Any changes during this time should have been for the purpose of making things more simple, faster, easier, etc.
20 years ago, there would have been various rants posted by people offering up critiques on TRICARE/DS Logon protocols. Today, alternative views have been mostly scrubbed away.
If you change up your search you can see what some people are thinking.
Getting somewhere now:
TRICARE
You have earned health care benefits with your career/job. You have made subscription/dues payments during the year to keep your health care turned on.
It almost seems like they create steps to make it difficult and confusing to use the benefits you have already earned and paid for.
High level politicians from both major parties have been talking for decades about fixing/supporting veterans health care benefits.
Somebody shared from the web:
Air Force Times Dec 6, 2023
DOD watchdog report warns of issues across military health care system
“Both the Air Force and Navy IGs pointed to a lack of medical providers willing to accept TRICARE — the global health insurance program for troops, retirees and their families — and a general lack of specialty providers.”
We have run into this several times over the years. Providers we like will say they left or are leaving TRICARE because the paperwork requirements are too big for the money they get paid from TRICARE.
Recruiting Crisis/Reality Check
Thousands of American families have had a loved one in the regular or reserve US Armed Forces who did one or more tours in Iraq or Afghanistan. National Guard too.
If we can just get the veterans, parents and grandparents of the USA to recommend an enlistment to the young family members in their life, things will be looking up.
The US Dept. of Defense spent the last 30 years squandering prestige and credibility overseas and at home.
If DOD was an NFL team, sports talk radio would feature comments like:
The Dept. of Defense was nowhere to be found on 911. We haven’t won a war since.
Four-star officers, high level DOD civilians, policy think tanks and the press will avoid being honest about how DOD has been used over the past 30 years. They tend to avoid discussing a track record that is not attractive to the parents, grandparents, young people and veterans of America.
Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the Pentagon specializes in undeclared/unwon wars. The DOD brand has been wrecked.
It’s all about freedom folks.
Biden honors Americans who ‘stood on the front lines of freedom’ in Veterans Day remarks
CNN Nov 11, 2023
Some Americans may be asking:
Mr President,
How would American freedoms today be any different if US troops were never sent to Iraq?
Uncle Sam is having a hell of a time finding people to sign up for the US Armed Forces. Pretending that decades of undeclared/unwon wars are linked in any way with American freedoms is the kind of dishonesty that will snuff out the energy American families once had for encouraging young people to enlist.
Good luck with your US Armed Forces recruiting crisis.
Related:
Recruiting Crisis – A Million Meals for Military Families In Need
Late 2023 US Armed Forces Recruiting Crisis
Most And Least Meaningful Federal Holidays
Stabilizing the Region – Since Desert Shield
The people of Alaska need services in the Middle East
A Draft? – DOD Brand Has Been Wrecked
How does Uncle Sam plan to attract young people to sign up in the years ahead?
Hostile Forces in Distant Lands
The country struggles with:
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A symbol of the DOD brand/recruiting crisis in 2023.
This, after decades of claims from politicians/both major parties that healthcare for The Troops is a priority.