EANGOR
Our mission is to both promote and support State and National security, advance the status, welfare and professionalism all members, and to support activities and programs that benefit all Oregon National Guard members at the State and National level.
FY16 NDAA under threat of veto.
The 2016 National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress last week will not reach the president's desk until next week. President Barack Obama has said he will veto the bill because it bypasses caps on military spending. But the bill has not yet been printed...
EANGUS and the Combined Federal Campaign
The Soldiers and Airmen Relief Fund provides emergency grants to National Guard members experiencing catastrophic financial hardship or property loss. Also provides educational scholarships to National Guard members and their families. This fund is operated by the...
Oregon Guardsman Awarded Soldier’s Medal
Spc. Alek Skarlatos, an infantryman with the Oregon Army National Guard, was awarded the Soldier's Medal last week at the Pentagon for his actions last month in subduing a gunman on a European train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris. His childhood friend, Airman 1st...
Army Panel to Focus on Apache Solution
The National Commission on the Future of the Army will soon focus on the issue of where to put the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopters and one commissioner hopes it will find a "blended capability" solution, according to a report this week by Inside Defense. The...
Military Families have until January to Update DEERS Info or face ACA fines
Over 400,000 military households’ DEERS records do not have all their families’ social security numbers. If they don’t add them before January they could owe fines through the IRS due to requirements in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare.) DEERS say they are missing...
Changes Coming to TRICARE Pharmacy Benefit
From the Tricare Website: http://www.tricare.mil/rxnewrules090115 Starting October 1, 2015, a new law requires all TRICARE beneficiaries, except active duty service members, to get select brand name maintenance drugs through either TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery or...
Department of Veterans Affairs 2015 Programs
Here are several ancillary Department of Veterans Affairs 2015 programs some veterans may not be aware of: (1) Aid and Attendance (www.benefits.va.gov/pension/aid_attendance_housebound.asp ) — veterans may be eligible to receive money to cover the cost of nursing...
Congressmen Predict Continued Defense Budget Cuts and Government Shutdown
TREA (News for the Enlisted, August 24, 2015) - Speaking at a forum at Joint Base Lewis-McChord last week, two members of Congress predicted there will be diminished spending for the military, tight restrictions on how Congress allows the Pentagon to respond to budget...
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Roll Call Wrap-Ups – Talking Points that you can use
EANGUS will publish monthly talking points that you can pass out to your unit leadership that will help them explain what EANGUS does and how their membership in your State Association and EANGUS matters to the National Guard. They can be found...












