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A Look Back at Veterans Day
According to the VA, the first celebration using the term “Veterans Day” was a parade that took place in Birmingham, Ala., in 1947. In May 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed H.R. 7786 into law, which of- ficially changed Armistice Day to Veterans Day. Like many other cities in America, Birmingham continues to cele- brate Veterans Day with a parade (like the one shown above, circa 1970) and other festivities to honor all veterans.
I Midshipman Cruise Credits
n August 2015, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) began notifying more than
1,700 Navy and Marine Corps ROTC retirees that their retirement pay had been incorrectly credited with mid- shipman summer cruise service time in violation of the 1964 ROTC Vital- ization Act. The letter stipulated the amount of service time that had been incorrectly credited, reduction in fu- ture gross retired pay, and amount of
PHOTO: BIRMINGHAM NEWS ARCHIVE/ADVANCE MEDIA
indebtedness that had accumulated since the date of retirement. The secretary of the Navy re-
quested a waiver of indebtedness from the appropriate approval authorities — DFAS for amounts under $10,000 and the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) for amounts of $10,000 and above. On Aug. 10, MOAA asked DFAS for a status update on the waiver
process. DFAS responded that 1,562 waivers had been granted for the entirety of cases below $10,000 and the 144 cases with amounts of $10,000 and above had been for- warded to DOHA. DOHA has pro- cessed and granted waivers for 76 cases and continues to process the remaining 68 cases. For additional information and
a list of FAQs regarding this issue, visit
www.moaa.org/cruisecredit.
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