Army Eliminates AKO Email Accounts for Retirees

AFCEA Signal: As the Army launched this week its new Soldier for Life website for retired soldiers, it eliminated access for retirees and their families to a .mil email account on the Army Web portal Army Knowledge Online, better known as AKO. Retirees can access information about health, retirement, employment and educational benefits from soldierforlife.army.mil, and have until December 31 to have their .mil emails forwarded from their AKO accounts to an account set up on a commercial site, officials said in a news release

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