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“They are not faceless bureaucrats. They are not suckers. They are not losers. They are hardworking public servants who have willingly sacrificed everything for this country, willing to give even their lives.”

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Your TRICARE explanation of benefits is an essential tool for understanding your health claims. An EOB is a statement from your health plan that details what action TRICARE has taken on your claims. An EOB isn’t a doctor’s bill. But it does tell you what TRICARE has paid—or not paid—on your claim and how much you owe to your provider for your share of the costs, as described in Chapter 8, Section 8 of the TRICARE Operations Manual. Take a moment to understand your EOB, what it means, and what may be required on your part.

Due to the Continuing Resolution and budgetary environment, Navy College strongly recommends that you do not begin any courses without an approved and funded TA voucher to submit to your Academic Institution. If you choose to proceed with courses without an approved TA voucher, please be fully aware of the Academic Institution's drop policy. You may be held financially responsible for all course costs if additional TA funds are not made available. For more information, please contact the Navy College Virtual Education Center (NCVEC) at 1-833-330-6622. When prompted, select option 4 for Education & Training Programs, then option 1 for Navy College Tuition Assistance. Support is available Monday to Friday, 0600 - 1800 EST.

The MyNavy HR Career Development Symposium (CDS) is coming to Hampton Roads, Va. from March 18 to March 20. CDS is an engaging opportunity for Sailors to interact face-to-face with MyNavy HR leadership and learn crucial career-enhancing information. The U.S. Naval Community College, Navy COOL, and MyNavy Coaching are a few of the many professional development opportunities offered at CDS. Sailors can meet with their detailers, enlisted community managers and command pay and personnel administrators. Naval Station Norfolk, Naval Air Station Oceana and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story will host the symposium throughout the week. Each event will start with an all-hands call with Commander, Navy Personnel Command Rear Adm. Wayne Baze, senior enlisted leadership and other MyNavy HR leaders. At CDS, Sailors are encouraged to ask questions, take surveys and give feedback on Navy personnel policy. “CDS empowers our Sailors to thrive in their Navy careers while meeting our nation’s warfighting needs,” said Baze. “We encourage Sailors to meet with our experts to tailor their career path and maximize their leadership growth.” CDS Naval Station Norfolk kicks off at 8:30 a.m. on March 18, with an all-hands call at the C-9 auditorium, followed by events at Vista Point. CDS Naval Air Station Oceana will start at 8:30 a.m., March 19, with an all-hands call and events at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit. CDS Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story will start at 9 a.m., March 20, with an all-hands call at the Little Creek Gator Theater, followed by events at the Dam Neck Annex base chapel. To view the full schedule of events for all three days, visit: https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Career-Management/Talent-Management/CDS/

Fellow Vets and family who were fired by DOGE. I know that the below words that came out of Habba's mouth is not true. Alina Habba's poor ethics as a lawyer, and quest to be in the limelight most likely make her popular with trump. As the daughter of immigrants who fled Iraq, she should very well know how competent United States Veterans are after we put Saddam Hussein in his place: The very same dictator that led Alina Habba's parents to flee Iraq. Additionally, as much as that lawyer has been admonished by judges, she should not question or judge anyone in regard to capabilities. The counselor and top attorney representing President Donald Trump (Alina Habba) raised questions Tuesday about the the capability and willingness of veterans to work after an unknown number have been fired from jobs as part of sweeping layoffs that continue to reduce the federal government’s footprint.

AFA WARFARE 2025 — Lockheed Martin is out of the running for the Navy’s sixth-generation fighter jet program, known as Next Generation Air Dominance or F/A-XX, Breaking Defense has learned.

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED/ ROUTINE R 041705Z MAR 25 MID180001651690U FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC TO ALNAV INFO CMC WASHINGTON DC CNO WASHINGTON DC SECNAV WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS ALNAV 021/25 MSGID/GENADMIN/SECNAV WASHINGTON DC/-/MAR// SUBJ/2024 VICE ADMIRAL ROBERT F. BATCHELDER AWARDS DEADLINE EXTENDED// POC/AWARDS BOARD/NA/CALLSIGN: NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES/LOC/ARLINGTON, VA/TEL: (703)312-1565/ EMAIL/AWARDS(AT)NAVYLEAGUE.ORG// REF/A/GENADMIN/SECNAV/20SEP2024// AMPN/REF A IS 2024 ANNUAL NAVY LEAGUE PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS ALNAV, DTG 201544ZSEP24// RMKS/1. The deadline for the Vice Admiral (VADM) Robert F. Batchelder Awards in reference (a) has been extended to 31 March 2025. 2. The VADM Robert F. Batchelder Awards recognizes five Navy officers in the Supply Corps levels O-1 through O-4 who have made the most significant personal contributions to the supply readiness of the operating forces. 3. Nominations: a. Nomination criteria. Nominations must be fully substantiated and reflect a careful and conscientious evaluation of the nominee for accomplishment 1 December 2023 through 30 November 2024. Each nomination package shall include: (1) A cover page with nominee's full name, rank/rate, current duty station and address, home address, work and home phone numbers, e-mail address, home of record, length of service, name of award being nominated for, point of contact name, rank/rate, address, commercial phone number (this cannot be a DSN number), fax number, e-mail address, and signature of commanding officer. (2) A nomination achievement/justification section in paragraph or bulletized format. It should explain in a manner easily understood by the general public and should avoid acronyms, generalities, or excessive use of superlatives. (3) A proposed citation in standard paragraph form. (4) The total submission packet, excluding the proposed citation, must not exceed four pages. (5) A template for the required format is available on the Navy League website at [https://www.navyleague.org/programs/awards/sea-services/ b. Submission. The requested method of submission is via website to [https://www.navyleague.org/programs/awards/sea-services/ with all attachments in Microsoft Word format or Adobe Acrobat. Nominations must be received no later than 31 March 2025. 5. Additional information regarding the awards and nomination process may be found on the Navy League website, [https://www.navyleague.org/programs/awards/sea-services/ 6. Awards will be presented at the Navy League Convention held in (location TBD), June or July 2025, or another appropriate event. The Navy League will cover expenses for lodging and meals of award participants, plus one guest. Travel costs will not be covered by the League. Using this message as a reference, commands are encouraged to issue temporary additional duty orders so award recipients may attend the Navy League's Annual Convention. For additional logistics information about this program, point of contact is the Member Engagement Team of the Navy League at email: awards@navyleague.org. 7. Released by Mr. Terence G. Emmert, Acting, Secretary of the Navy.// BT #0001 NNNN CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED/

Office of Servicemembers: Financial resources for serving servicemembers, veterans, and military families. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) helps servicemembers, veterans and military families navigate the unique financial challenges of service through financial resources, monitoring complaints, and holding companies accountable. * The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was ordered to open back up after the trump administration tried to shut it down.

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Among the challenges: a serious shortage of skilled workers, poor shipyard employee retention, last-minute design changes, and the Pentagon's shifting priorities.

One day after the Department of Veterans Affairs celebrated an estimated $2 billion in savings on canceled contracts, the agency began reversing some of the cancellations that may have affected veterans' medical care and other benefits, according to multiple sources familiar with the contracts and agency records reviewed by ABC News. Some of the contracts marked for termination on Monday included contracts to provide employee and workplace benefits services to tens of thousands of VA employees and their families. Others included work overseeing hazardous waste disposal, conducting safety inspections at VA medical facilities, supporting cancer programs and burial services, according to agency records review by ABC News.

NAHA, Okinawa — A civilian employee of the U.S. Navy was taken into custody after a bullet was discovered in his baggage at an airport security checkpoint, a police spokesman said Monday. Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-03-03/bullet-naha-airport-okinawa-17016230.html Source - Stars and Stripes

The 24-year-old sailor smashed a beer stein into some college kids' head after staff told him the bar was closed.

Kyle Babiak, 31, faces up to life in prison for attempting to coerce a 14-year-old girl — actually an undercover officer — into sex.

Nearly 6,000 military veterans who worked for the federal government have been fired and the number is only expected to grow as President Donald Trump’s administration and its Department of Government Efficiency initiative, led by Elon Musk, press ahead with slashing the federal workforce. Democratic lawmakers critical of the cuts have sought to highlight the fact that veterans are being disproportionately affected by the job losses.

Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed by CNN. The intelligence indicates that foreign adversaries are eager to exploit the Trump administration’s efforts to conduct mass layoffs across the federal workforce – a plan laid out by the Office of Personnel Management earlier this week.

A Navy reservist has been jailed over charges he tried to bribe a former shipmate in Jacksonville to help two Chinese immigrants ― one in America illegally ― get bogus Navy ID cards.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (WLS) -- A former Navy sailor pleaded guilty in federal court to plotting to attack the Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois.

CFL/ACFLs, CNIC CFL 5-Day Certification Course Request - The CNIC functional inbox (cfltraining@us.navy.mil) has been experiencing issues with request from personal email addresses (@gmail.com, @yahoo.com, etc.). Therefore, when submitting an application for the CFL 5-day Certification Course, recommend you utilize an official military email address. Also, if you do not receive a response within 48-72hrs, please contact the CFL Administrator, Ms. Gina Woodley at: gina.p.woodley.naf@us.navy.mil. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience, as CNIC works to resolve this issue.

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED/ ROUTINE R 271649Z FEB 25 MID180001636599U FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC TO ALNAV INFO CMC WASHINGTON DC CNO WASHINGTON DC SECNAV WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS ALNAV 018/25 MSGID/GENADMIN/SECNAV WASHINGTON DC/-/FEB// SUBJ/FOREIGN ADVERSARY TARGETING OF UNITED STATES NAVY AND MARINE CORPS PERSONNEL ON SOCIAL MEDIA// REF/A/MSG/ALNAV/29AUG24// REF/B/DOC/OPNAVINST/14JUN24// REF/C/DOC/SECNAVINST/28OCT19// REF/D//DOC/MCO/12NOV20// REF/E/DOC/DODD/17MAY11// NARR/REF A IS ALNAV 073/24, DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY INSIDER THREAT AWARENESS MONTH. REF B IS OPNAVINST 5510.165B, NAVY INSIDER THREAT PROGRAM. REF C IS SECNAVINST 5510.37A, DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY INSIDER THREAT PROGRAM. REF D IS MARINE CORPS ORDER 5510.21, MARINE CORPS COUNTER-INSIDER THREAT PROGRAM. REF E IS DOD DIRECTIVE 5240.06, COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AWARENESS AND REPORTING. RMKS/1. Foreign Intelligence Entities (FIE) are using Social Networking Sites (SNS) and applications to target Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of the Navy (DON) personnel and their families to access facilities, systems, equipment, information, or infrastructure in order to damage, disrupt operations, compromise information or commit espionage on behalf of an adversary or competitor. FIE are also using fake personas to obfuscate their intent and affiliation with foreign intelligence services. They have been observed as increasing their use of SNS and seemingly legitimate job offers to elicit sensitive information. These solicitations pose a direct threat to our defense industrial base and undermine the ability of our Department to compete with foreign competitors on the development of critical emerging technologies. The detection and deterrence of these efforts should be a priority for all active duty and civilian members of the DON. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and the DON's Insider Threat Programs are committed to increasing the awareness of these threats pursuant to references (a) through (d). 2. Platforms and Tactics. FIE are leveraging SNS to insidiously obtain unclassified and classified information from U.S. military and other U.S. Government (USG) entities and affiliates. FIE have used SNS such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Indeed to initiate espionage relationships with DoD and other USG personnel by posing as researchers and headhunters and offering jobs and consulting opportunities. Contact requests are initiated with superficially harmless questions in order to establish rapport and determine military affiliation. FIE and those working on their behalf are known to offer all-expense paid trips to their targets for speaking engagements, such as presentations at universities and interviews. 3. Solicitation Questions. The questions asked may not explicitly or directly include classified information, rather, adversaries may rely on opinion-based queries to gather information. Examples include geopolitical questions on U.S. relations with China, Taiwan, or Ukraine; opinions on the current U.S. military command climate and structure; or opinions on how to improve military operations and/or functions. Adversaries may also offer disproportionately high payments for opinion papers on the aforementioned topics. Although this model of solicitation does not fit the traditional methods of targeting personnel with access to classified information, the threat should not be discounted, regardless of how innocuous the requested information appears. 4. Contact Methods. Methods of contact include, but are not limited to, social media direct messages, email, phishing attempts, or telephone calls. These contacts appear benign in nature and often do not seem to originate from a hostile nation or government, but rather appear to originate from within the United States or from a friendly nation. The requests have been known to escalate from the sharing of opinions to veiled requests for classified material. All DON personnel are encouraged to remain vigilant to this active and highly complex national security threat. 5. Financial Solicitations. Additionally, DON personnel and their families should be vigilant for suspected fraudulent financial solicitations. FIE use a combination of fake websites, phishing messages, and malicious apps to trick DON personnel into providing financial data, and/or login credentials used for long-term access to financial accounts which are then exploited for vulnerabilities. 6. Reporting Requirements. As mandated by reference (e), all DON personnel will report potential FIE threats, to include contacts, activities, indicators, and behaviors, to their organization's counterintelligence (CI) element or the NCIS. When CI support is not available, DON personnel shall report the threat without delay to their security officer, supervisor, or commander - who shall forward reported information to their organizational CI element or NCIS within 72 hours. 7. All commanding officers and supervisors should mandate prompt threat reporting in order to deter efforts by our adversaries to undermine our military and enhance awareness of established procedures for contacting their respective CI organization and the assigned NCIS Special Agent, servicing NCIS office, or Navy or Marine Corps Insider Threat program representative. Reports can also be submitted to NCIS via the "SUBMIT A TIP" link at the top of the NCIS home page located at [https://www.ncis.navy.mil/. 8. Released by Mr. Terence G. Emmert, Acting Secretary of the Navy.// BT #0001 NNNN CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED/

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Let's see what other group trump decides to remove... WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Transgender service members will be separated from the U.S. military unless they receive an exemption, according to a Pentagon memo filed in court on Wednesday, essentially banning them from joining or serving in the military. The move, which goes further than restrictions President Donald Trump placed on transgender service members during his first administration, was described as unprecedented by advocates.

Military spouses have been caught in the crosshairs of recent Office of Personnel Management directives regarding remote work and provisional personnel, with many left fighting for clarification of the new policies and their jobs.

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