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Features
Endless Options
Today’s retirement options don’t mirror those of past genera-
tions. MOAA helps you fi gure out which ones are right for you.
MOAA’s mission
Consider This By Deborah Huso 56
Military Officers Association of America
Golden Years, Golden State By Marilyn Pribus 66
(MOAA) is a nonprofit veterans’ as so ciation
Tailor-Made Retirement By Nanette Lavoie-Vaughan 78 dedicated to main taining a strong national
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defense and to preserving the earned en-
titlements of members of the uniformed
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services and their families and survivors.
The air route known as the Hump claimed many lives during
Member ship is open to those who hold or
World War II. Until now, limited efforts have been made to
have ever held a warrant or commission in any
component of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy,
recover those remains. By Don Vaughan
Air Force, Coast Guard, Public Health Ser vice,
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or NOAA and their surviving spouses.
Alan W. Dowd and Alexander Moens examine how the U.S. and
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its allies must combine economic and military resources to
keep alive the memory of America’s POWs
prevent a Russian stranglehold over the Arctic’s waterways
and missing servicemembers.
and abundance of oil and natural gas.
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