Posted on Mar 21, 2017
Should military discounts only be for people that meet the VA's legal definition of veteran?
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I'm at Cabela's and the clerk asked if I'm a veteran and I give my usual no. I gave my usual no and my girlfriend blurts out yes. As she is applying the discount, I explain to her that I was a reservist with no deployments. She rang it up anyway and I didn't want to hold the line up so I didn't argue it. I never ask for discounts and I felt like I was stealing valor. Was a law broken?
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I agree that you took the high road on this! I will say that I think all former soldiers in your position (i.e. never deployed or on active duty except for training) should be considered veterans as you had or have no control during your service of being activated and deployed. I will say that the ones who I have or had little tolerance for are those who when notified they are being deployed have a meltdown or tried using a lame excuse like it would interfere ,with their schooling. I seen this happen several times with both officers and enlisted folks and in my opinion they should be immediately discharged and made to pay back $$ for schools attended on the taxpayers dime!....Guess I'll get off my soapbox now!!
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I would give you tons of likes for this as I personally witnessed such a thing, my unit deployed to Bosnia had a soldier who refused to go but his medical training was financed by the military, the unit went, this sm was discharged, that was it, my 1sg and I discussed this one day, she told me it was easier to kick him out than to go after charges and recoupment, never really settled with me but those were the days
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Sounds to me like you did nothing wrong. The stores determine their own policy, and they extend it to whoever they want.
The only issue would be the verbiage of their policy. A "military discount" means something different in lots of different places. Sometimes it's only for those serving on active duty. In other places it also includes retirees. In other places it includes veterans who didn't retire and are no longer serving. In even more places it also includes family members.
The only issue would be the verbiage of their policy. A "military discount" means something different in lots of different places. Sometimes it's only for those serving on active duty. In other places it also includes retirees. In other places it includes veterans who didn't retire and are no longer serving. In even more places it also includes family members.
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I concur, Sir. If they specified "veteran", then good to go. If they asked "military", I would mean that to be actively serving whether Reservist or AC, so different story.
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it depends on the company, I use Lowes a lot for work and home, their sign clearly states what is acceptable, active id, retired, VA card, reserves/ng, and so on to include civil service, as far as the legal definition, if you got a DD214 your a vet, whether it was combat, active or reserve/national guard, whether you served 6 months to 40 years, if you got proof your a vet, then its the company's decision.
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