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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 MSG Duane Fields  MSG Fields is the legislative representative for the Council and maintains an extensive mailing list and keeps us informed of all bills in both the house and senate that are of interest to us. 

There are more than 5000 retired military from the Army alone in the greater Springfield area and we have had difficulty in getting 15 or so to attend the council meetings. This council is fighting for our benefits but if more of you don't start showing an interest in helping, most of us will be DEAD before enough is done!

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 members on the PX, Commissary, and hospital boards and our chairman and co-chairman are both members of the Fort Leonard Wood 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/