TRICARE Pharmacy

TRICARE provides a pharmacy benefit to all eligible Soldiers, including beneficiaries entitled to Medicare Parts A and Parts B based on their age. Eligible beneficiaries may fill prescription medications at military treatment facility (MTF) pharmacies; through the TRICARE Express Scripts, Inc. (Express Scripts); at TRICARE retail network pharmacies; and at non-network retail pharmacies. Prescriptions filled through the MTF, TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery, and retail network pharmacies are checked for accuracy and are checked against your TRICARE prescription history for potential drug interactions. To have a prescription filled; beneficiaries need a written prescription and a valid Uniformed Services identification card.

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Reunion

The return home from combat can often leave servicemembers feeling out of place with the most important people in their lives - their families.

"In deployment, Soldiers grow accustomed to a new lifestyle and a new 'family' - those buddies that bond together to defend each other," said Maj. Ken Williams, 14th Military Police Brigade chaplain. "This lifestyle change is prolonged and becomes familiar, i.e., the new normal."

The families also change while the Soldier is deployed.

"The family is a system," Williams said. "When one family member is absent, the whole system changes. All members of the family adapt to a new 'normal' way of life."

When the servicemember returns, the family may feel uncomfortable with each other, and the servicemember may withdraw from the family.