Makes permanent (currently applies only during FY 2004) the exemption from the requirement of payment of subsistence charges while hospitalized in a military facility of an enlisted or former enlisted member, or an officer or former officer, who is hospitalized in a military facility because of an injury incurred: (1) as a direct result of armed conflict; (2) while engaged in hazardous service; (3) in the performance of duty under conditions simulating war; or (4) through an instrumentality of war.