I'm tired of all the negative. What stories do you have where your employer went above and beyond to show appreciation for their vets?

When I was working as a Professional Guide at the Root Ranch, one day the boss contacted me on the radio stating my Army Reserve unit had contacted him to let him know it was an alert notice. I asked if I needed to call them back, he said no, I needed to report to Boise (A/321 Engineer). Now you have to understand it was about 90 minutes by plane from Salmon, Id to the ranch, and a 4 hr drive from Salmon to Boise. He told me to get my gear ready and he'd be there in two hrs to pick me up. He also offered to fly me directly to Boise. I figured the time and I had driving time, so I elected to drive. But that also meant at the end of the alert, he would fly from Salmon to Boise to pick me up. I thought that was great! When it came to Reserve duty, he pulled no punches, he supported me.

My current civilian employer has an entire department dedicated to helping thier vet employees. When I started, they sent me a welcome package and info on all the services offered to help vets at work, home and durring service. They double the required time off with pay when returning from deployments. They pay me to go to drill and other military training, which is very helpful since I have to travel far for drill and my drill pay doesn't even cover gas. Tomorrow, they are hosting a company meeting with high ranking vets in the company speaking about leadership and service, particularly female leadership since that's a hot topic. This is all just the tip of the iceberg that my company does to support vets.

During my civilian police career, every year I went on ADT or SADT, I obviously received my pay from Uncle Sam (usually late). My police employers ALSO paid me full time wages while I was on military leave. They were not required to provide military leave nor pay me. They did both, and I am forever grateful. As an agent in CGIS for the last twenty years of my military career, I was oftentimes called and requested to go somewhere ASAP for some criminal-related issue, incident, arrest, etc. My Sheriff got to the point where he would simply ask, as I packed up my office and turned out the light, "Can I ask what this one's about this time, or will you need to kill me???"