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PEOPLE
FIRST
Editor’s Note: The “People First” section is
compiled from information from the Air Force
Personnel Center, TRICARE, 56th Force Sup-
port Squadron, Airman and Family Readiness
Flight, Veterans Affairs, the civilian personnel distribution limits the top two promotion
office and armed forces news services. For the
complete story, go to the web address listed at
the end of the story.
AF releases Form 910,
implements forced distro
The revised Air Force Form 910, Enlisted
Performance Report (airman basic through
technical sergeant); and interim change 3 to
Air Force Instruction 36-2406, “Officer and
Enlisted Evaluation Systems,” have been
published on the Air Force e-Publishing
website.
The interim change codifies forced dis-
tribution of promotion recommendations
for technical sergeants and below (includ-
ing staff and technical sergeant-selects),
which was implemented using Air Force
Form 910 for the Nov. 30 technical sergeant
and technical sergeant-select EPR static
closeout date.
The new form and interim change, with
the associated forced distribution process,
are the latest significant changes to the
Enlisted Evaluation and Weighted Airman
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Promotion Systems since the transforma-
tion began last summer. The promotion
recommendation restrictions associated
with forced distribution only apply to the
regular Air Force.
For technical sergeants and below, forced
recommendations a commander is au-
thorized to give to time-in-grade/time-in-
service promotion-eligible Airmen.
http://www.aetc.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tab-
id/136/Article/631646/af-releases-form-910-im-
plements-forced-distribution.aspx to improve the security and force protection
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entitled care stateside
Overseas military families may face a
problem when they return home to the
United States for the holidays.
Service members and their families en-
rolled in the TRICARE Overseas Program
Prime Remote are entitled to visit hospi-
tals and clinics stateside and receive the
same priority status as stateside enrollees.
However, many of these overseas members
are being denied access to care at medical
treatment facilities simply because they
are not enrolled to the MTF where they
are seeking care.
The Health Affairs Policy 11-005 provides
guidance for the access to care standards for
health care benefits under the TRICARE
program for beneficiaries. Priority access
to MTFs is based on enrollment status, and
Prime/Prime Remote enrollees have priority
access for care ahead of non-enrolled benefi-
ciaries in all MTFs, according to the policy.
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If TOP Prime/Prime Remote enrollees personnel are prepared to respond to future
need care at a stateside MTF, TRICARE incidents,” James said.
reminds those MTFs that this is an op-
portunity to support military readiness, http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/
recapture patients and keep costs low for Article/632555/secaf-implements-additional-
the Military Health System. security-measures-after-attacks.aspx
http://www.22af.afrc.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/ Avoid paying more
tabid/212/Article/632027/overseas-members- for prescription drugs
entitled-to-stateside-care.aspx
This December, TRICARE beneficiaries
SecAF implements security can take action to avoid paying more for
measures after attacks some prescription drugs. Beneficiaries fill-
ing a prescription for a select brand name
In response to the defense secretary’s call maintenance drug at a retail pharmacy
may need to move their prescription to
of defense personnel after the tragic events either a military pharmacy or TRICARE
in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Air Force Sec- Pharmacy Home Delivery. If not, they may
retary Deborah Lee James introduced more have to pay full cost for their prescription.
stringent security measures to reduce the
possibility of violent acts directed toward Beneficiaries can move their prescrip-
Airmen on and off installations. tions by contacting the TRICARE phar-
macy contactor, Express Scripts (ESI) at
Defense Secretary Ash Carter initially 1-877-363-1303 or by using ESI’s secure
charged the secretaries of the military online portal.
departments with improving physical and
procedural security, mass warning and alert If beneficiaries are an active-duty
notification capabilities and augmenting service member, live overseas or have
security. other prescription drug coverage and can
continue using retail pharmacies with no
In addition, off-installation facilities will changes to their current copays.
establish and maintain emergency action
plans and practice these plans through The new rule began Oct. 1, but allows
training exercises at least twice a year. you to get two 30-day refills of an affected
drug from a retail pharmacy. For many,
“We are working with (the Office of the those two refills will run out in December
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence) and their next prescription refill needs to
toward an armed contract solution for off- be through Home Delivery or at a military
installation facilities like our recruiting pharmacy.
stations, and we are strengthening relation-
ships with local law enforcement agencies http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/
and partnering on exercises to ensure all Article/632069/avoid-paying-more-for-prescrip-
tion-drugs.aspx
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are something holiday cheer.” family, comrad-
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since I was a the food, and
kid.” football.”¬
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