Benefits

Why Join NGAGA and NGAUS?

Because both Associations are working for you!

  • Monthly National Guard Magazine
  • Representation on issues directly affecting Guardsmen such as pay, education benefits, equipment modernization, missioning and military construction
  • NGAUS Travel
  • Preferred Vision Care
  • Free Drivers Licenses
  • Free Car Tag
  • Georgia Guard Insurance Trust - providing affordable life insurance that can be taken into retirement
  • Georgia Guard Credit Union - Set up and run to benefit the Georgia Guardsmen and their families
  • Free accidental death benefit of $1,000
  • Technician Insurance Plan
  • NGAUS MasterCard with WorldPoints
  • New NGAUS/EANGUS TRICARE Select Supplement Insurance

What has NGAGA Done Lately?

Your Associations continue to be hard at work for you.
Check out the recent accomplishments below:

  • A $600 million add to the budget to address equipment shortfalls in the National Guard and Reserves. Total budget for this line item is $6.9 billion
  • DODs cost share for the National Guard Youth Challenge Program increased from 60 to 75 percent
  • Prohibits DOD from retiring fighter aircraft and moving the people assigned to those missions until the Secretary of the Air Force submits a report
  • Secretaries of the military departments are now required to provide reserve component members injured on active duty information on the availability of care through community-based warrior transition units, including the location of the nearest community-based warrior transition unit to their homes.
  • Reserve retirees (Gray Area Retirees) who have not yet reached age 60 are now eligible for TRICARE Standard
  • Implementing a 3.9% pay raise
  • Reduced the age Reserve Component personnel receive retired pay by three months for every aggregate 90 days of active duty service in support of contingency operation after 28 January 2008.