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NGAUS News Digest

NGAUS News Digest July 29, 2025 1. Task & Purpose – TRICARE could soon cover dependents up to 26 with no extra fees Rules that already cover most civilian health insurance plans might soon be coming to TRICARE, allowing children to remain on their parents’...

ARMY FACIAL HAIR

The Army updated its facial hair grooming policy in a service directive that resulted from a force-wide review of military standards. The update reinforces the Army’s long-standing policy that all Soldiers must be clean-shaven when in uniform or civilian clothes while...

AIR FORCE PERSONAL APPEARANCE

The Air Force has updated its dress and personal appearance instruction. The new guidance memorandum for DAFI 36-2903, Dress and Personal Appearance of Department of the Air Force Personnel, clarifies mandatory uniform items and personal appearance standards while...

Army National Guard Soldiers – Early Retirement Program

Tens of thousands of Army National Guard Soldiers mobilized under authority 12304b will now receive full credit toward early retirement retroactively to 2012, thanks to a NGAUS push for the Pentagon to adhere to applicable law. “For too long, thousands of Guardsmen...