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Transition Discussion I disagree with the final bullet in “Sal- ary and Benefits” by Col. Terri Coles, USA (Ret) [“Ready, Set, Transition,” May 2015]. When you receive a job offer, you should be ready to make a decision immediately, not waffle. You should have done your homework be- fore you ever showed up for the first interview. You and your family should know what salary range you are will- ing to accept for the job. By the time you are offered a job, you should be able to make an informed decision. If you can’t, ask the questions of the in- terviewer that will give you the miss- ing information. By “considering,” you are telling the interviewer that you cannot make a decision on your own and that you are not really serious about the job offer. — Lt. Col. Wendy Lenahan, USAF (Ret) Stevensville, Mont., and Salem, Ore.

MOAA’s Transition Center staff re- plies: Offers at mid and senior levels can be complex. During the interview process, compensation-related items are discussed at a general level. It is common to allow candidates up to 96 hours to consider the terms of an offer, which also gives the candidate an op- portunity to consider competing offers.

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Can you enlighten us [regarding] the apparent lack of support and posi- tive publicity for USFHP? — Lt. Cmdr. John Weiss, USN (Ret) Life Member via email

MOAA’s Government Relations staff replies: MOAA long has supported, in legislative testimony and white papers, the model of payment and care the USFHP employs. We continue to tout key features of the plan that keep beneficiaries healthy and costs low.

I … stopped abruptly on page 72 [of the May 2015 issue’s “Military Made, Business Approved”] when reading in the middle column, “[James R. Schenck’s] goal has been to increase PenFed’s membership from 18 billion to 75 billion.” This cannot possibly be correct. I think what was meant had to do with money in accounts, assets under management, assets of the credit union, or something of a similar nature. The last I heard, the world population was around 7 bil- lion or 8 billion! — Lt. Col. John C. Hale, USAR (Ret) via email

Civil War Widows In the May issue of Military Officer, in [retired Army Reserve] Lt. Col. Jules Miller’s correction about Civil War veterans, I noted what must be an error in the citation of P.L. 85- 425. It was cited as being passed in 1958 and later stated to apply to laws existing in 1957. Hardly any living Civil War veterans could have been alive in 1958 to have made much benefit and purpose to such a law granting those veterans a pension, as most or all would have been dead by then. … What is the explanation? — Capt. J.H. Southerland, USPHS (Ret) Life Member Cary, N.C.

Editor’s note: P.L. 85-425, passed in 1958, was intended: “To increase the monthly rates of pension payable to widows and former widows of deceased veterans of the Spanish-American War, Civil War, Indian War, and Mexican War, and provide pensions to widows of veterans who served in the military or naval forces of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.”

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