Posted on Nov 5, 2013
Since the Army closed all retiree's AKO accounts in 2014... what do you think of this loss of benefit?
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The U.S. Army will close all retirees' and family
members' AKO accounts between Dec. 31, 2013 and Mar. 31, 2014. Additionally, you can no longer store email
in AKO after Dec. 31, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p><br></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p>When AKO accounts were created back in the Late 90's they were promised to retirees for life. What do you think about this loss of benefits?</o:p></p>
members' AKO accounts between Dec. 31, 2013 and Mar. 31, 2014. Additionally, you can no longer store email
in AKO after Dec. 31, 2013.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p><br></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p>When AKO accounts were created back in the Late 90's they were promised to retirees for life. What do you think about this loss of benefits?</o:p></p>
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Responses: 27
I thought the whole point of retiring was not having to deal with AKO ever again :)
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LTC (Join to see)
Hopefully the Department of Veteran's Affairs can establish an E-mail system for notifications, which since it would be a Federal Government Account could provide DOD-Notifications as well?
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SFC Charles S.
Maj Thomas V. G., that would be satisfactory. It's a sore subject because at the onset of the AKO and .mil e-mail it was told to us that it would be for life... Having promises reneged on is not a great feeling. The COLA cuts come to mind with this subject as well.
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SGM Mikel Dawson
MSG (Join to see) - I don't have AKO and have no problem. You have been misinformed.
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I was bummed until I found RallyPoint. That decision was horible because it cut us off even further from our military family.
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It will hurt the veteran retiree community the most as we will lose those connections and networks that we have built, and also the information pipeline that many need for long distance from any brick and mortar installations for assistance.
I have already forwarded all my messages from my email folders, but will hope for a better way in the near future. Although this is a extremely small cost to the overall defense budget it is claimed that it will have a effect on helping cut costs, really something that probably take about 0.001% of the money from the budget will help cut costs, get real.
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CMSgt Robert Gates
Larry you have noticed a fact that I have seen emerging since January 2009. Even the three congressional persons in my home state do not like the retired military based on the numerous letters I have received from them over the years in responses to my letters sent to them concerning retiree issues. They send boiler plate answers. All of this comes from actions of the top when you look at the recent COLA cuts and VA backlogs of our deserving soldiers and sailors injured returning from combat around the world with no action to correct.
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SSG Charles King
it really hurts me to because I was all set to get on line only to read from others like you that I can no longer "go there" SSg Charles R.King Supply SSg Of Fox Trot company out of Cabot,Ar
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