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  1. Ed Mercanti

    Surviving Spouse Benefits

    I apologize in advance since this is off topic, but I need the collective knowledge and experience I can only find here. If a military retiree dies and his wife remarries later in life (69), does she keep her retiree ID card, medical treatment, and burial benefits?
  2. Ed Mercanti

    Goodbye to Regulations

    Had to part with my old Army regulations. They were taking up too much room in my house. A VFW museum in West Virginia wanted them and came to pick them up. Filled up their car! These are Army regulations from modern day, Operation Desert Storm, Vietnam, Korean War, WWII, and WWI. It was...
  3. Ed Mercanti

    Starting School for Disabled Veterans

    I have done business with a mom, pop and son jeweler for quite some time. Wonderful people who do exquisite work for a decent price. I received a call from them yesterday. I was told that they want to expand their business but would need to train people how to cut stones in order to do so...
  4. Ed Mercanti

    PTSD and Undesirable/Punitive Discharge - Vietnam

    This is an interesting article. So they are trying to say that the individual's misconduct was caused by a medical condition which did not exist at the time. That would be hard to do in and of itself. But then they had to show that the individual had PTSD and got it from combat experiences in...
  5. Ed Mercanti

    Perspective

    I believe in keeping things in perspective. We just had the anniversary of the D-Day landing. Did you know all the soldiers, sailors and airmen who were disabled during WWII were not retired or discharged with severance pay? Prior to 1 October 1949, on which date the Career Compensation Act of...
  6. Ed Mercanti

    Delays in Processing

    I've read so many posts about the DES taking a prolonged period of time. I think part of that is with budget cuts, everyone is trying to do more with less. I retired from Federal Civil Service December 3rd 2011. They pay you around 60 percent of your retired pay (64 percent in my case) until...
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