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commissaries at five major installations next year. In addition, as ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Mikulski fought to protect the commis- sary against dramatic cuts and restored $322 million in funding for the program. As chair of the Armed Services Military

Sen. James Inhofe

(R-Okla.)

Personnel Subcommittee, Heck was the first line of defense to fend off cuts to military benefits and compensation. Through his leadership, the House passed a defense bill that would have barred a third straight year of capping military pay raises, a second year of reducing commissary funding, a second year of slowing housing allowances, and a second straight year of calls to consolidate TRICARE and significantly increase health care fees for beneficiaries. TMC also presented its 2015 Freedom

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)

Award to Anthony Lazarski, a senior advi- sor for Inhofe. With little help, Lazarski tirelessly rallied support from other congressional offices to pass the Inhofe- Mikulski commissary amendment to the Senate’s version of the defense bill. Col. Herb Rosenbleeth, USA (Ret),

Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.)

TMC president and national executive director of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA, said, “This year’s honorees share a common passion and commitment to doing the right thing for our servicemen and -women, retirees, veterans [and] their families and survivors.” Col. Mike Hayden, USAF (Ret), then- TMC cochair and MOAA’s director of Government Relations said, “These legis- lators and staffers worked closely with all the members of the coalition to help pre- serve military benefits and compensation in order to recruit, retain, and sustain the all-volunteer force.” TMC represents the interests of more

than 5.5 million active duty, National Guard, Reserve, and retired servicemem- bers and veterans of the seven uniformed services, plus their families and survivors.

38 MILITARY OFFICER NOVEMBER 2015 DFAS Email E

Scam Alert Keep your personal identification information safe.

mail scams are targeting ser- vicemembers and military re- tirees and their families by posing as the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS). The most recent scam looks like

a “SmartDoc” email with the subject line “myPay IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATE” and appears to come from a DFAS-SmartDocs email address. The links provided in the emails direct the user to a malicious website that requests personal information. Below is an example of the email:

Dear Account Holder, It has come to our attention that your

myPay account information needs to be updated as part of our continued commit- ment to protect your account and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website. If you could please take 3 minutes out of your on- line experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records

will result in account suspension. Once you have updated your account

records, your Online sessions will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. To update your myPay records click on the Update button. Thank you, myPay Customer Center

DFAS provided the following statement

regarding this scam: “Valid SmartDocs messages from DFAS are always sent in plain text, do not include