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Chief Sandlin,
USAA has long been working toward serving the entire military community. Since our founding in 1922, we've expanded eligibility as we've grown our financial strength and built the operational capacity to accommodate additional groups of members. USAA is stronger today than at any time in our 86-year history, which enables us to offer the benefits of USAA membership to more military families than ever before.
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I am very pleased to announce that USAA is opening membership to include the following:
* Military retirees who served honorably, regardless of when they retired
* Military personnel honorably discharged on or after January 1, 1996
* Widows and widowers of military members killed in action while eligible
After they join, spouses and children of the above may also be eligible to enjoy the benefits of membership.
Having served as an Army Private and many ranks along the way to Major General, it gives me great personal satisfaction to know that another three million former service members and their families now have access to all that USAA offers. Traditional public companies gauge success by profits and tend to grow by acquisition. USAA is here for no other reason than to help facilitate the financial security of military families. It's more than a mission statement. We care about our members and their families.
If you know of someone who may be eligible for USAA, please click on Share USAA and let them know about the benefits of membership. Especially in today's turbulent economy, it's important that more military families can depend on USAA to be a safe harbor.
<EOT>
Go Navy! 
