Tools
Medical, dental, life, VA treatment — grouped by where you actually are.
Reserve, active duty, AGR, TAMP, gray area, then veteran. Educational estimates. The .gov / .mil page still owns the decision. Only the store is for sale.
Federal Selected Reserve
Reserve
USAR and the other federal reserve components. DEERS, TRS, which dental, SGLI, the 50-point year. National Guard is its own start card.
Which dental?
TDP vs FEDVIP vs VA vs in-service. Two portals, not one.
DEERS / ID / milConnect
If DEERS is wrong, every enrollment dies first.
TRICARE Reserve Select
Selected Reserve medical. A purchase, not automatic.
50-point year
Anniversary year math. 49 points is a lost year.
National Guard
Title 32, SAD, technicians. Wrong card if you are federal Reserve.
Active duty
Title 10. Prime, not TRS. Regular-component door.
AGR / full-time
Not TRS. Active-duty TRICARE. Full-time Guard/Reserve door.
Official doors
milConnect, TRS, TDP, TSP, RAPIDS. .gov / .mil only.
Acronyms
DEERS, BWE, FEDVIP, AYE. One line each.
Title 10
Active duty
Regular-component ADSM. Prime, Prime Remote, or overseas Prime. Not TRS. Not AGR.
Active duty TRICARE
Title 10 ADSM. Prime, Prime Remote, or overseas. Zero premium. Not TRS.
Enroll active-duty TRICARE
Duty station, Plan Finder, BWE, GENESIS. Not TRS.
Print the one-pager
Single sheet for in-processing. Point at .mil.
Active-duty deck
Free slides. Education, not filing.
AGR / full-time
Guard and Reserve on full-time orders. Wrong card if you are Title 10.
Active Guard Reserve
AGR / full-time
Full-time Guard and Reserve. Active-duty TRICARE enrollment — Prime or Prime Remote, not TRS.
AGR TRICARE enrollment
Prime vs Prime Remote. DEERS first, then BWE. Not TRS.
Enroll AGR TRICARE
DEERS, Plan Finder, Prime vs Prime Remote, then BWE.
Print the one-pager
Single sheet for incoming AGR. Point at .mil.
AGR drill deck
Free slides. Education, not filing.
Regular active duty
Title 10. Not AGR. Wrong card if you are not Guard/Reserve full-time.
Spouse and kids
Family
DEERS add-on, FSGLI, CHAMPVA, DEA. The sponsor’s login is not their enrollment.
In between
Getting out / TAMP
BDD window, 180 days of TAMP, then the SGLI → VGLI clock.
20-year letter, not 60 yet
Gray area
Retired Reserve with no paycheck. TRR, reduced age, then TFL at 65.
Gray-area hub
20-year letter, no retired pay yet. Jump to TRR, reduced age, or TFL.
TRICARE Retired Reserve
The gray-area medical plan. milConnect, not cheap.
Reduced retirement age
90-day qualifying AD blocks. Floor is 50. Drill does not count.
Age-60 / TFL clock
Medicare Part B is the on-switch. TFL is wraparound at 65.
Already out
Veterans
Rating math, pay table, VA health, community care, travel pay, home loan, your state.
VA health care (10-10EZ)
Enroll even if you have other insurance. Form is free.
VA pay table
2026 compensation by combined rating. What 70% actually pays.
Community care + travel pay
When VA sends you downtown. Then file BTSSS mileage — VA does not guess it.
VA home loan COE
Certificate of Eligibility. Not a homeowners policy.
Combined rating
VA math — 50 + 30 is not 80.
State benefits
Property tax, tuition, plates. State site wins.
File without a mill
Intent to file, C-file, 21-526EZ, the exam. VA does not charge.
GI Bill comparison
Official Comparison Tool, then 22-1990. Recut, not cloned.
HLR / supplemental / Board
Three free review lanes. Pick one. Read the C-file first.
Forms and records
10-10EZ, 21-526EZ, DD-214, C-file.
Find Congress
Official House and Senate finders. Not a letter mill.
1SGs
NCO kits
Free drill decks and one-pagers. Point at the .gov door.