How does talking to fellow veterans and service members help you?

You are not alone.

Yep! I met several veterans at an event I attended a couple of weeks ago. Life is typically simpler when communications are more straightforward as they often are in our military service world for more obvious reasons than not. Typically, I am always wearing my Navy ball cap when out.

Sidebar: At the event I mentioned a fellow navy vet was wearing a ball cap of a ship I had served on, he about 10 years before my service. We spoke about 15 minutes about our different experiences on the same ship a decade apart, him during Vietnam and me post-Vietnam. Meeting a fellow vet that had serviced on the same afloat platform as I had but in two entirely different departments, me in medical and him in engineering, again was great! It is always easier to have those common experiences that non-vets cannot come close to relating too.

Just wanted to put an exclamation mark on your point!