By Rick Maze
September 2, 2008
President Bush on Friday signed into law an expansion of military benefits to sole surviving members of a military family who decide to leave the military.
The law applies retroactively to sole surviving members of families in which one or more siblings were killed or severely injured in the military. It is called the Hubbard Act, named for an Iraq war veteran, Jason Hubbard, who took an early discharge from the Army after two of his brothers were killed in Iraq. Because his discharge left him several months short of completing the three-year enlistment for which he had signed up, the combat veteran was denied some benefits.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/08/military_solesurvivor_bush_082908w/
