Stay connected, wherever you are: Army Echoes is going digital

By Army Retirement Services       August 2025

Army Retirement Services is excited to announce a major shift in how we deliver the official Army newsletter for Retired Soldiers and their families. We slowly began transitioning to a digital-only publication in August 2021, with the addition of a fully digital edition of Army Echoes every August. The goal then, as it is now, is to provide a more economical, sustainable, and efficient process for distributing the Army Echoes newsletter. We are continuing this transition to a digital-only publication beginning in FY2027.

Starting with the February 2026 edition, we will continue to transition our print-based newsletter to a digital-only format and phase out hard copy versions of Army Echoes. Instead, we will use the email address in your DFAS myPay account to send you a SMARTDOC indicating that the current edition of Army Echoes is available. Keep an eye out for this SMARTDOC emailed to you every February, May, August, and November, indicating that Army Echoes is available for download from the Army’s Soldier for Life website at: https://soldierforlife.army.mil/Army-Retirement/Post-Retirement/Army-Echoes-Newsletter.

We are committed to delivering you valuable online visibility, in clear, easy-to-digest content, in line with our communication strategy for informing and educating Retired Soldiers, their families, and surviving spouses with up-to-date information on their benefits, entitlements, and news that is important to you. The newsletters are also posted on our website at the link above each time a new issue is published. Also, numerous post-retirement resources can be found on our new webpage at https://soldierforlife.army.mil/Army-Retirement/Post-Retirement.

In order to ensure access to Army Echoes during this transition period and in the future, we ask for you to please verify/update your email address in your myPay account at Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), by logging into myPay at https://mypay.dfas.mil/#/ or by calling DFAS directly at (800) 321-1080. We highly encourage you to have an email address on file with your myPay account as this is where your Army Echoes notification will be going.

Contact your servicing Retirement Services Officer (RSO) if you need assistance with gaining access to Army Echoes. The RSO directory is available on our webpage at https://soldierforlife.army.mil/About-Us/Contact-Your-RSO.