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How to sign up for AGR / full-time Guard-Reserve TRICARE
Full-time Guard and Reserve. Prime or Prime Remote. The Reserve card will send you to the wrong cash register.
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Confirm DEERS
https://milconnect.dmdc.osd.mil/milconnect/
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Enroll Prime, not TRS
https://www.tricare.mil/Prime
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Read the retirement fork
https://myarmybenefits.us.army.mil/Benefit-Library/Federal-Benefits/Blended-Retirement-System?serv=121
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