| Support letter for adoption of the Major Richard Star Act amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. Reform to military retirement pay and disability veterans are prohibited by Congress from receiving their full earned DOD retirement pay and Department of Veterans Affairs service-connected disability compensation. Over 50000 retirees with combat-related disabilities must forfeit every dollar of retirement pay for every dollar they receive in disability compensation. No veteran should have to choose between two fundamentally different benefits that they earned for two entirely different reason. This offset must be eliminated. Our combat veteran shave already sacrificed enough. |