GET INVOLVED FOR THE GOOD OF THE MILITARY COMMUNITY

Many of us start the new year with resolutions to lose weight, exercise more, eat healthier, give up smoking, etc.

MOAA suggests resolving to get more engaged on legislative issues that impact your family’s health and wallet, and those of your comrades in arms and their families. Several things are certain about 2008: there will be threats to the defense budget, proposals to shift more health costs to military beneficiaries, new proposals to cut so-called federal “entitlement” spending, and renewed competition for limited budget dollars.

How about making the following your resolutions?

1) I will care enough about my family’s military benefits to help protect them. When alerted by MOAA, I will e-mail, write and call my legislators so they know what issues are important to me.

2) I will care enough about my military friends and their families to help inform them about legislative threats and encourage them to contact their legislators on issues of concern.

3) I will care enough about the entire military community to help push for needed fixes for others, even though the issue may not affect me personally. If all members of the military family — active duty, Guard, Reserve, retired, veterans, spouses, family members, and survivors — support each other’s issues, we strengthen the support for all, rather than “hanging separately.”

Friends help friends in solving car problems, home repair problems, health problems, and more. When there’s a legitimate gripe, we need to get a collective grip — and get a group of our friends and colleagues — to get a fix.

Source: MOAA National

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