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Transcript: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROPOSES POLICY TO IMPROVE AVAILABILITY AND DELIVERY OF MILITARY FUNERAL HONORS
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- April 21, 1999
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The Department of Defense (DoD) has conveyed to Congress a report
containing a proposed policy to improve the availability and delivery
of
military funeral honors for veterans. The policy, if accepted by Congress,
will require the military Services for the first time, upon request
by
next of kin, to provide specified funeral honors for any veteran who
has
served honorably in the armed forces. The DoD report responds to a
requirement
in Section 567 of the fiscal 1999 Strom Thurmond National Defense
Authorization
Act (NDAA). The proposed policy responds to the report of the Conferees
on the NDAA that indicated the intent of the Conferees that the requirements
for funeral ...