'Retiree-at-Cost' hearing aids: Hearing birds for the first time again

[The Patriot]

The Army has long had the "Retiree-at-Cost Hearing Aid Program" that provides retired service members with hearing aids at cost, saving them thousands of dollars on some of the most-sophisticated hearing devices on the market. The recent National Defense Authorization Act expanded that program to include spouses of beneficiaries, such as Holmes, who is the wife of a soldier who retired in 1991.

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