The Navy Personnel Command Communications office has published the 50th-anniversary edition Shift Colors, the newsletter that stays connected to nearly 650,000 Navy Retirees.

Shift Colors started in 1955 with a four-page spread of plain, typed text addressing important issues to Navy retirees.

For the past half century, Shift Colors has provided retirees and their family members with up-to-date information pertaining to pay and benefits, with continual updates from TRICARE; Defense Finance and Accounting Service; Morale, Welfare and Recreation; and Navy Personnel Command's (NPC) Retired Activities Office. The 50th Anniversary issue of Shift Colors gives readers a look back at 1955 with a five-page spread featuring stories and photos submitted by fellow readers.

The NPC Communications office publishes Shift Colors three times per year, ensuring information being passed on to readers is accurate and up-to-date with the latest changes in retiree benefits. At the same time, it provides a fact-filled reference for family members to use to gain a better understanding their benefits and responsibilities.

Shift Colors can be accessed through the NPC website on the Shift Colors web page. The Shift Colors web page provides the latest issue, back issues beginning from 2002, reunion listings, information up-dates, ready reference contact information, and retiree seminars.