I didn't enlist to get free **** from the civilian community. What I did appreciate were those few times over my career when someone picked up my bar bill in the airport, or whatever stop and rob I happened to be eating/drinking at at the time. Most often it was other, older veterans.
You can keep the auto discount IMHO, seems to me to be more good marketing than altruism.
Me, everytime I travel I look in that airport bar where I'm waiting and pick up the tab of whomever is military. Don't care of they were combat vets or supply corps. All because when I was coming up someone else did it for me and it meant a helluva lot more than some suit offering me a car coupon.
Service is service, God bless'm all.
LtCommander Augs, USN-retired
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