DEERS?

New here what is that? and what does it do? Amy

DEERS stands for Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System. Basically DEERS records and keeps track of the service members family's benefits (including Tricare). When a new dependant comes along (marriage or new born, etc) the service person reports this to DEERS, so they can get the benefits for being a military dependant. Hope that helps a bit!

Once you get married your sponsor (husband) will put you into DEERS and this will determine your life for the rest of your career as a military Wife... LOL. Just make sure your hubby know that once you get married and you are in there... that he updates it Constantly. Right now I'm on Tricare STANDARD because my retarded husband didn't update his deers when he went out to sea... But once you get Enrolled in DEERS you will get your Dependant ID card (DONT LOSE IT) and it gives you benefits like Discount at the Exchanges whether it be Base Exchange, Naval Exchange, Doesn't matter... and other things... but you will have to be in DEERS to be Enrolled in TriCare after that, you should be good to go. By the way, if your Hubby doesn't go with you to get it... make sure he fills out the application and gives you the ORIGINAL (they wont take copies) of the Application otherwise... You WONT get it... My hubby was overseas and His Personell Officer E-mailed it to me... yeah, No go... drove 10 hours (5 there, 5 back) to get it and No luck. It was a big mess. They aren't always helpful at the MPF!!! Krissy