Serving Eastern New Mexico and West Texas
Benna Sayyed Anita Fite was eager to watch her husband drive a fully restored 1945 military jeep down Main Street in Saturday’s Veterans Day parade. She also came for another reason. As the floats, the groups of motorcyclist veterans, the military personnel and others passed through the intersection of Main and West Seventh St., Fite […]
CANNON AIR FORCE BASE — Power has been restored to all facilities at Cannon Air Force Base.
By 27th SOW public affairs A basewide power outage on is scheduled from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Power will be restored in base housing areas once the work is completed. This scheduled outage will facilitate the upgrade of a power substation needed to support ongoing construction at Cannon. Guidance for base residents: • […]
By Tom Philpott: CNJ columnist Jacqueline Peters, widow of a retired Army officer, only recently grasped how “ludicrous” the law has become that limits Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) payments to surviving spouses of military members who either die in retirement from service-related ailments or die while on active duty. These survivors qualify for Dependency and […]
Couple restored faith in people I would like to share my story on how my faith in people and the holiday were restored. Last week, while shopping with a co-worker and some clients, we noticed how it seems the true meaning of the holiday has been lost — so we thought. We went for dinner, […]
By Tom Philpott Though unseen by an anxious population of disabled retirees, work proceeds at the Pentagon and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to implement a multi-billion-dollar upgrade in retirement benefits. The effort soon will deliver bigger paychecks to 200,000 or more annuitants. Here is how the two new programs — limited Concurrent Receipt […]
