Pick a decade anytime after the war in Vietnam. No matter what political party or personality is in the White House, Uncle Sam struggles to get veterans health care to work properly. Moms, Dads, Grandparents, and young people have access to this info.
Recruiting crisis for Uncle Sam? Elected officials and top Pentagon Generals earned it.
In the news:
Giant Federal Program/Contractor Update:
Tricare snafus cause medical shortfalls for military families
Feb 19, 2025 – Marine Corps Times
By Karen Jowers
“Since Jan.1, beneficiaries and providers alike have had problems with TriWest’s online portal, and many have waited hours on hold with the TriWest call center for multiple days.”
“In addition to widespread problems with TriWest’s web portal and call-center wait times, other problems reported to Military Times include: receiving incorrect information from TriWest; TriWest taking months to approve contracts for Tricare providers; and providers not being reimbursed for the care they’ve provided to Tricare beneficiaries.”
Welcome Home Troops
The purpose of this blog is not to say that military benefits are inadequate.
You have earned health care benefits with your career/job. You have made whatever payments/co-pays are required during the year to keep your health care turned on. Making use of what you earned should not be a tortuous process.
Elected officials:
No money should change hands/go to TRICARE without a written or emailed invoice being provided to the servicemember. Please fix this.
Stop kissing veteran ass on Armistice Day and every other chance you get. Stop with the “Thanks for your service” nonsense.
People volunteered to go to far away places and maybe never come back again.
Go to work to smooth out the process they face when they need to call and manage whatever benefits they earned.
Older veterans have influence with kids, grandkids and younger members of the community. Do right by them if you ever hope to dig out of your US Armed Forces recruiting crisis.
This whole thing should be no more tricky to use than an Amazon account.
US Armed Forces Recruiting Crisis
It will be interesting to see how things play out in the months ahead.
Thousands of American families have now had a loved one who did one or more tours in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Will they support new enlistments?
Decades after the lessons of Vietnam, it feels like the people who run the Pentagon specialize in undeclared/unwon wars.
Understandable why young people and their parents and grandparents would take a dim view on all this.
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.
Any college or pro football coach would have been fired a dozen times over for what DOD has done with the US Armed Forces during the fake GWOT era.
Flag officers and high level DOD civilians built careers made of undeclared/unwon wars. Now they must mastermind ways to recruit a new generation.
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