Springfield Missouri Military Retiree Council
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Springfield Missouri Military Retiree Council |
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Links of interest
These links are provided as a service to you and will link you directly to those sites listed.
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Military Officers Association of America Saint Louis Area Retiree Council |
The Retired Enlisted Association Branson MO Veterans task force |
AAFES |
My Army Benefits (good info for others too) |
If you would like to get on an E-mail list that would send you the latest information on bills of interest to all of us please contact SMSGT Duane Fields SMSGT Fields is the chairman/legislative representative for the Council and maintains an extensive mailing list. He keeps us informed of all bills in both the house and senate that will have an impact on military retirees.
There are over 5000 retired military from just the Army in the greater Springfield area and who knows how many from the other branches. It has become pretty obvious that most of you could not care less what is happening to the benefits we all earned by our service or you'd take the one hour or so once a month to attend these meetings. DOD is trying their best to increase our co-pays for medical benefits we were all promised and the only way to keep this from happening is to show an interest. For those of you that attend the meetings, thank you for caring, for those of you that don't attend thank you for helping prove to DOD that the majority don't care.
Contact your representative in Washington D. C.
This site is maintained by and registered to CW4 Jerry Miller, U. S. Army, Retired. Feed back is very welcome and would be appreciated.
Committees
We have a member on the PX, Commissary, and hospital boards and our chairman is a member of the Fort Leonard Wood Retiree Council and past co-chairman of this Retiree Council.
I've made a few changes to the top of my home page at http://mrgrg-ms.org/ that I thought may interest to you. I will be sending the paragraph concerning the "
United States Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit Decisions"
to Congressional Staffers. I'll bet that
less than 5% of the Congressional
Staffers know about these court
decisions. I'll go a step further and
bet that less than 10% of our military
retirees know about the court's
decisions. Even at this late date the
Congressional Staffers need to know
about the Greatest
Swindle of all time. And, what
happened to us is a swindle. In my
opinion the court admits that it was a
swindle when they wrote "They
served their country for at least 20
years with the understanding that when
they retired they and their dependents
would receive full
free health care for life. The
promise of such health care was made in
good faith and relied upon."
Of course you know the rest of the
story... "Again,
however, because no authority existed to
make such promises in the first place,
and because Congress has never ratified
or acquiesced to this promise, we have
no alternative but to uphold the
judgment against the retirees'
breach-of-contract claim."
This is nothing new coming from me. As
you know I've been harping on these
court decision since the first time I
read them. Forget hell, not a chance!
Floyd Sears
THE RETIRED MILITARY ADVOCATE
In support of the:
Military Retiree Grass Roots Group (MRGRG)
Dedicated to:
The
military retirees that have been
lobbying the Congress since 1995 trying
to regain the medical care
they were contractually promised for
serving 20 or more years in the military
until retirement.
United States Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit Decisions.
Click
here
to see a court decision in favor of
military retirees.
Click
here to see what happened when the
Government appealed the above decision.
Click
here to see what the dissenting
Judges had to say about the
decision against the military retirees.
Click
here
to see a plan for lobbying the Congress
to stop cuts to Medicare payments.
Click
here
to see the Educate the Congress Tracking
System.
Click
here
to see a list of MRGRG participants.
Click
here
to add your name to the MRGRG
participant list.
Click
here
to look at and listen to the greatest
swindle of all time story.
Click
here to listen only to the
greatest swindle of all time story - 11
minutes.
Click
here
to e-mail Floyd Sears, MSGT, USAF, 1951
to 1971 (retired),
the webmaster.
A message to the:
United States Congress, the
American People, Military Retirees,
Military Retiree Widows, and anyone
interested in justice and fair play.
What
would you do if you made payments on a
house for 20 years under what you
thought was a contract only to discover
that the contract wasn't authorized and
the house isn't yours?
What
would you do if the people that sold you
the house closed the house and told you
that you could not live there anymore?
What
would you do if you served for 20 or
more years in the military being told
that if you served until retirement you
would receive free medical care for
yourself and your eligible dependents at
military treatment facilities for as
long as you or they lived only to
discover, via a court ruling, that the
promise wasn't authorized and the
government reneges on the promise.
What
would you do if you were told that you
could not use the military treatment
facility where you had been receiving
medical care for years, and you had to
go on Medicare and pay for Medicare part
B just like the average citizen that
never served a day in the military?
Would you fight for what is yours, or
would you just roll over and play dead?
See more at:
http://mrgrg-ms.org/