Keeping your family's files current............

Extract from Army Echoes

Retired Soldiers and surviving spouses.... does your family know where your files and importrant papers are? If you died tomorrow, would they know where your bank account is, what insurance you carried and where the deed to the house is? If you haven't yet put together a packet of information for your family, a good tool to use is the Casualty Assistance Checklist which you can be accessed on the Army Echoes homepage at http://www.army.mil/rso/PostRetirement.asp under information for Retired Soldiers and Family Members. Complete the checklist and give it to your family to make things a little easier after your death.

RETIREES.... Are you an AKO user?

Log on now to https://www.army.mil and obtain an account. Retired Soldiers are no longer required to enter your Pay Entry Basic Date to prove eligibility. The only number you need to enter on the secure site is your Social security number. You can find the Army Benefits Tool which has links to sites for all phases of the Soldier Life Cycle. In AKO click on Self Service and then on my benefits.


A LITTLE HUMOR....(Nov O8)

Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked "How old was your husband?" '98,' she replied. Two years older then me.' 'So you're are 96?' the undertaker commented. She responded, 'hardly worth going home is it?

Reporters interviewing a 104 year old woman: 'And what do you think is the best thing about being 104?' the reporter asked She simply replied, 'No peer pressure.?

I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor's permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.