Hill has it wrong in the following statement: "However, The American Legion is disappointed that several measures for which we lobbied were dropped from the final defense act," Hill said. Most, such as our much favored phasing out of compromised pay for medically retired service members and deduction of survivor benefits from military survivor benefits plan (SBP) annuities etc." Hill ignores the Obama promise to grant concurrent receipt to all retired 10-40% disabled veterans, 400,000 total.