the awareness of veterans, and the public in general, of 
the symptoms of PTSD and of the services available for 
veterans with those symptoms. The Secretary of Defense 
shall provide the Secretary of Veterans Affairs with such 
assistance as may be required for the purposes of such 
program. To the extent practicable, the program shall be 
conducted through the joint council established under sec-
tion 151. 
SEC. 196. WEB SITE AND MATERIALS FOR GENERAL CAM-
PAIGN OF AWARENESS OF PTSD. 
As part of the program under this title, the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs shall develop and continually update 
a Web site and materials, including pamphlets, news re-
leases, fact sheets, and other materials, for the purposes 
of a general campaign of awareness of post-traumatic 
stress disorder. 
TITLE II—DISABLED VETERANS 
Subtitle A—Payment Matters 
SEC. 201. ELIGIBILITY FOR PAYMENT OF BOTH RETIRED 
PAY AND VETERANS’ DISABILITY COMPENSA-
TION FOR CERTAIN ADDITIONAL MILITARY 
RETIREES 
WITH 
COMPENSABLE 
SERVICE- 
CONNECTED DISABILITIES. 
(a) EXTENSION OF CONCURRENT RECEIPT AUTHOR-
ITY TO RETIREES WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABIL-
ITIES RATED LESS THAN 50 PERCENT.—Section 1414 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking para-
graph (2) of subsection (a). 
(b) REPEAL OF PHASE-IN OF CONCURRENT RECEIPT 
OF RETIRED PAY
AND VETERANS’ DISABILITY COM-
PENSATION.—Such section is further amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking the final sen-
tence of paragraph (1); 
(2) by striking subsection (c) and redesignating 
subsections (d) and (e) as subsections (c) and (d), 
respectively; and 
(3) in subsection (d) (as so redesignated), by 
striking subparagraph (4). 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) The heading for section 1414 of such title 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 1414. Members eligible for retired pay who are also 
eligible for veterans’ disability compensa-
tion: concurrent payment of retired pay 
and disability compensation’’. 
(2) The item relating to such section in the 
table of sections at the beginning of chapter 71 of 
such title is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘1414. Members eligible for retired pay who are also eligible for veterans’ dis-
ability compensation: concurrent payment of retired pay and 
disability compensation.’’.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect as of January 1, 2006, and 
shall apply to payments for months beginning on or after 
that date. 
SEC. 202. COORDINATION OF SERVICE ELIGIBILITY FOR 
COMBAT-RELATED SPECIAL COMPENSATION 
AND CONCURRENT RECEIPT . 
(a) ELIGIBILITY FOR TERA RETIREES.—Subsection 
(c) of section 1413a of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘entitled to retired pay who—’’ and 
all that follows and inserting ‘‘who— 
‘‘(1) is entitled to retired pay, other than a 
member retired under chapter 61 of this title with 
less than 20 years of service creditable under section 
1405 of this title and less than 20 years of service 
computed under section 12732 of this title; and 
‘‘(2) has a combat-related disability’’. 
(b) AMENDMENTS TO STANDARDIZE SIMILAR PROVI-
SIONS.— 
(1) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The heading for 
paragraph (3) of section 1413a(b) of such title is 
amended 
by 
striking 
‘‘RULES’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘RULE’’. 
(2) SPECIFICATION
OF
QUALIFIED
RETIREES 
FOR CONCURRENT RECEIPT PURPOSES.—Subsection
(a) of section 1414 of such title, as amended by sec-
tion 2(a), is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘a member or’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘retiree’)’’ and inserting ‘‘an 
individual who is a qualified retiree for any 
month’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘retired pay and veterans’ 
disability compensation’’ after ‘‘both’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(2) QUALIFIED RETIREES.—For purposes of 
this section, a qualified retiree, with respect to any 
month, is a member or former member of the uni-
formed services who— 
‘‘(A) is entitled to retired pay, other than 
in the case of a member retired under chapter 
61 of this title with less than 20 years of serv-
ice creditable under section 1405 of this title 
and less than 20 years of service computed 
under section 12732 of this title; and 
‘‘(B) is also entitled for that month to vet-
erans’ disability compensation.’’. 
(3) STANDARDIZATION WITH CRSC RULE FOR 
CHAPTER 61 RETIREES.—Subsection (b) of section 
1414 of such title is amended—