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Jun 11
Here's the bill text from Senator Moran.
Its looks halfway decent. Thanks for everyone working behind the scenes to get this passed. We do see and appreciate you!
Things to like: It actually includes the Major Richard Star Act!
Things I would like to see change:
1. The effective date, its currently set to 1 JAN 27, this costs me personally $12,000. No reason why this can't be effective immediatley or back dated to the first of this year.
2. The Retirement "lesser than" calculation. Its a little vague on the "as if they did 20 year" calculation. Just leave the same verbiage as the discharge petition for this. If we are doing "as if they did 20 years", does that just mean 50% of high 3? Or do we take our rank and go to the 20yr TIS block and take 50% of that? It just creates confusion and room for interpretation and error. Every person this bill applies to already has a known Military Retirement $ Figure.
Unexpected: The offsets. Although I don' think the MRSA needs offsets, there are offsets included for other portions of this bill. The offsets are never appreciated, but my personal opinion is that these particular offsets are already in motion to simply be stripped. In this manner we are actually getting something for them(CPAP/Tinnitus). Yes I am rated for one of these.
veterans.senate.gov/services…
@JerryMoran @DonJBacon @RepBost @repvanepps @CoryMillsFL @davidmedic81 @DavidWarrenVet @bricecrawford @kniftarqr9y @BskiMike22802 @cole_adria49217 @DanielBledsoe76
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Jun 12
Good Evening @IntlPaperCo
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A lot of people seem to forget how negotiations work.
The original idea that many people talked about was restoring the full 70% DoD disability retirement. That was always the high-water mark. But in any negotiation, you start high and work toward a compromise. I’ve been told for years that a full 70% restoration was probably never realistic.
What is being offered now is something many of us never thought we’d see: a regular 20-year retirement calculation at 50% of High-3 pay, even for veterans who were medically retired long before reaching 20 years of service.
Think about who that helps. It helps the young private who lost a limb in Iraq or Afghanistan. It helps the specialist who was medically retired after a catastrophic injury. It helps the lower-enlisted troops who never had the opportunity to reach 20 years because their military careers were cut short by combat wounds or service-connected disabilities.
Many of these veterans can’t work. Some can, some can’t. But right now, most of us receive no military retirement at all beyond CRSC. We’ve been waiting years, and in my case, almost 14 years.
So when people say the compromise isn’t perfect, I agree. It’s not perfect. But it’s something. It’s a meaningful retirement benefit for thousands of combat-disabled veterans who currently receive nothing from their earned retired pay.
The people making the most noise right now tend to be those who would have benefited the most from a full 70% restoration. I understand their position. Nobody likes compromise. But if we walk away from a deal because it isn’t everything we wanted, we may not get another opportunity for 10, 15, or 20 years.
Mandatory spending requires an offset. That’s how Congress works. Whether people like the offset or not, they found one. The savings were going to exist anyway. The choice is whether that money goes back to the Treasury or is used to help combat-disabled veterans.
I’m not getting any younger. A lot of us aren’t. After waiting nearly 14 years, I believe it’s time to take the deal that’s on the table and help the greatest number of veterans possible.
Sometimes progress comes one compromise at a time.
#MajorRichardStarAct #majorStarAct #54kveterans
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Jun 12
Clay makes a salient point here. Lets put this into perspective:
- 12 out of every 100 of the American population served in war during WW2 in a force made up of volunteers and draftees.
- 1.3 out of every 100 of the American population served in war during Vietnam in a force made up of volunteers and draftees.
- 1 out of 130 of the American population served in war during our nations longest war, the GWOT, in a force made up of 100% volunteers.
Look at that last statistic again. Every single one of us VOLUNTEERED to go to war before 9/11, in the days following, or at the height of the GWOT. Yes, I understand some IRR were called up, but those personnel also VOLUNTEERED prior to or during the war and honored their remaining MSO (Mandatory Service Obligation)
One thing the GWOT generation is not, is squeamish when it comes to putting in work and putting motherfuckers in the dirt. Some of us loved the job and loved going to war.
Don't get it twisted.
Jun 12
Look man, I’m a lot of things.
But squeamish about killing brown people isn’t one of them.
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Jun 12
Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts"
"They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts , We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol #tartanarmy #fifaworldcup @jk_rowling
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🇺🇸 Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi plans to fire 910 Americans on July 31, 2026.
He filed for 385 H-1B visa hires in Q1/Q2 2026.
$CUTOFFS
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Teeeroy 🦝 🦫 🦦 🦊 🐺 retweeted
I know I still have issues with section 101.
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Respectfully, @RepJenKiggans, this expansive package actually compromises the very benefits you want to protect.
Section 101 of (H.R. 9237/S. 4744) forces our 54,000 combat-injured veterans to wait until January 2027 just to see the Star Act take effect.
Worse, Section 108 pays for this delay by executing a permanent $57B budget raid on veterans with tinnitus and sleep apnea—money originally intended to expand mental health capacity for 1.8M veterans.
We have a unique opportunity to deliver this relief without forcing our disabled veterans to absorb the cost of a broader omnibus.
The clean, standalone Major Richard Star Act is already just 5 signatures away from the floor via H.Res. 1247.
Let's work together to pass it the right way, safeguarding baseline care and avoiding the Section 101 deficiencies for Guard/Reserve and Section 108 offsets entirely.
I'm proud to be an original co-sponsor of the 'Take Care of America's Veterans Act' (H.R. 9237) introduced this week! This expansive legislation package will improve healthcare, benefits, and services for our veterans including bipartisan, bicameral legislation such as the Major Richard Star Act, the Veterans’ ACCESS Act, the Love Lives On Act, and the Sharri Briley And Eric Edmunson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act. I’m looking forward to seeing this bill advance through committee and supporting it on the floor of the U.S. House!
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Teeeroy 🦝 🦫 🦦 🦊 🐺 retweeted
@AMVETSHQ I appreciate that you OPPOSE the tinnitus and sleep apnea rating cuts. Most veterans do not even know those are coming. So thank you for that, sincerely.
But let me gently push on the framing, because I have read this bill line by line, and there is a part nobody at the VSO level is talking about.
The tinnitus and sleep apnea changes were happening no matter what. You said so yourself. Which means the savings were always going to exist. The Take Care of America's Veterans Act did not create that $57 billion. It is SPENDING it. And the question that actually matters is where inside the bill it goes, and whether the people it is supposed to reach can actually collect a dime of it.
That is Section 101. The Major Richard Star Act portion. And it has a drafting problem that hits Guard and Reserve the hardest.
Section 101 rewrites 10 U.S.C. § 1414(b). It keeps the old "career retiree" rule at (b)(1) and adds a new combat-related rule at (b)(2). Both decide eligibility on the same "or": 20 years under § 1405 OR 20 years under § 12732. For a reservist those two counts are wildly different, because a 20-year letter (§ 12732) credits any year with 50 points, while § 1405 and § 1208 credit total points divided by 360. So a combat-wounded reservist holding a 20-year letter lands in BOTH the "career retiree" paragraph AND the "under 20" paragraph at the same time. There is no rule of priority anywhere in the bill telling DFAS which one wins.
Why does that matter? Because one paragraph pays him NOW, and the other does not pay him until AGE 60. Same soldier. Same bill. Two different answers, and the text does not pick one.
Here is the part that should stop every VSO cold. Major Richard Star was an Army Reservist. He died at 51. Under the age-60 reading, the man this bill is named for would never have collected a single dollar of it. I am in that same limbo right now: 100 percent, combat-related, medically retired out of the Army Reserve, 20-year letter, about six years of service for disability-retirement purposes. I am 43. That is potentially a 17-year wait on a wound I already carry.
So I am asking, respectfully, one advocate to another: AMVETS has standing. Use it. Demand a one-sentence priority rule saying a combat-related retiree who qualifies under (C) is paid under (C) regardless of also meeting (b)(1). It costs nothing. It changes no score. It fixes the limbo. And it has to happen BEFORE passage, not after a decade of appeals at DFAS.
But what do I know. I am only a medically retired combat medic who actually sat down and read Section 101 line by line, while everyone else was busy counting the $57 billion.
@MajorStarAct @StarActEnemies @54KVeterans @passmajstaract @restore_GI_Bill
#MajorRichardStarAct #MajStarAct #Veterans
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Changing the VA rating schedule for tinnitus & sleep apnea is happening. AMVETS opposes the changes, but it is happening. The Taking Care of America's Veterans Act will ensure much of that $57 billion dollars goes to Veterans rather than back into U.S. Treasury.
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Teeeroy 🦝 🦫 🦦 🦊 🐺 retweeted
A quick reminder....
When someone says "Our Democracy", they aren't including you and me.
They mean "Their Democracy" and you and I aren't part of it.
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Bingo
No, but I’ve read this bill and I’m fighting to get your retirement back.
The powers that be have already made a decision on those VA cuts without your consent. They are giving you leverage right now because they need to look good before the midterms and before the 250th anniversary.
It would be smart to take advantage of it while you can because I don’t believe there will be another time that you’ll be able to.
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Preach!!! Now convince the VSO's?
The original was blocked in the Senate three times. And the discharge petition was never clearing it either. Six years of fighting for this.
The tinnitus and sleep apnea already coming - late 2026 - before this bill existed, that’s not bunk. If you already have those ratings the actual bill language protects them. Period.
Is the formula perfect? No. But tens of billions in savings aren’t even all being used. Fight to fix the math now while that leverage exists.
Or blow it up and start over and hope that the government comes to their senses and gives you everything you want.
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That's powerful just in renderings.
How did we wind up with a grass covered Japanese designed Islamic crescent as the design....
Jun 12
Not entirely accurate to my idea for the GWOT Memorial, but the vision is there. Flame would be at the entrance, not in the tunnel, whose narrowness and descending nature reminds of the WTC during 9/11.
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Yet another lengthy video just talking about the already proposed VA rating changes.
The VA reducing changes only allows the VA to shuffle $ around in their piggy bank.
The main issue is on the MRSA:
DoD already has, basically a "military 401k" retirement account that gets funded and topped off every year with each congressional approved NDAAs.
Longer service member serves and each year more $ is factored into that account based on various things such as attrition rates and chances to be injured so on and so forth. There's literly a ton of ppl sitting around the Pentagon counting beans and doing the math to figure this out.
DoD and DFAS already knows what all CH61 medically retired veterans are owed regardless of if they were active duty or a reservist.
The new proposed language in the TCAVA basically reduces the payout to reservists who are over 20 years of service but medically retired, as well as active duty medically retiress who have over 50% DoD disability rating.
The MRSA requires ZERO funding. The funds are already there for us. The math has already been done, the funds were already congressionaly approved and released to the DoD.
They just have been denying the DoD the authorization to release the funds to CH61 medical retirees over a legaleese wording jargon.
If I was a betting man I'd say the DoD is sitting on roughly $10B (10,000,000,000) that's waiting to be distributed to the current 55,000 CH61 Medical retirees. But congress and the VA are trying to figure out ways to dip into the DoD's piggy bank at the cost to combat wounded veterans. Meanwhile hundreds of us are dieing and committing suacide.
Know what an extra $3,711 a month looks like? I can get faster better more tailored care for my needs from private providers in town and pay out of pocket and not need to use the VA.
Know what happens when somethings not needed anymore? They start to feel the squeeze and try to justify their existance.
More mental health programs? You mean the same ones that just force pills down Vets throats to turn them into sundated drooling robots?
Here's why so many service members are committing suacide and no amount of VA programs will ever fix it:
The oppisit of depression isn't happiness or joy.
It's expression.
The entire DoD and VA system has ZERO outlits for veterans to learn how to express themselfs via creativity.
Now I'm going to go smoke some weed and make some art while everyone figures out if I get paid $2,600 a month or $3,700 a month. Just hope they hurry TF up because the longer they wait the more of my brother's and sisters who truly need that $ suffer even more. (but then again the more of us that die just let's the VA increase their cost per investment for their silly programs that "help")
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Again… be happy this can be passed this year!
Instead of starting over next Congress you can start asking for the original bills calculation!
youtu.be/9wBUAYbDg4w?is=RpX2…
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For the veterans that follow me. This is a must do in DC. It's not fun, but it's a special place for sure.
Im walking and this Marine comes up to me and says "You should go see my brothers at Arlington cemetery"
I had to walk away, It was hard not to cry hearing him say that... Its been 2 hours and Im still thinking about it... I will man 🙏 🇺🇸
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Im walking and this Marine comes up to me and says "You should go see my brothers at Arlington cemetery"
I had to walk away, It was hard not to cry hearing him say that... Its been 2 hours and Im still thinking about it... I will man 🙏 🇺🇸
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Teeeroy 🦝 🦫 🦦 🦊 🐺 retweeted
Makes sense to me. @VFWHQ @AmericanLegion @DAVHQ @WWP_DC @MilitaryOfficer Breaking News: SMART MOVE! Comprehensive Veterans Legislation - Take Car... youtu.be/9wBUAYbDg4w?is=sTBs… via @YouTube
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