"...Disabled retirees, reserve component members, surviving spouses and active forces all benefitted from flush wartime budgets and a Congress attuned after 9/11 to America's deepening appreciation of current and past generations who risk life and limb in our nation's wars.
But amid a deepening debt crisis and return of all U.S. forces from Iraq, the 2012 defense authorization bill (HR 1540) approved last week shows priorities shifting..."
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