Airline qualification military discharge

A80TRACON said:
Here, or should I say way over there in Georgia where my cars are, with my DD214 I receive "Veteran" license plates and pay $1 per year as opposed to somewhere in the vicinity of $150ish if I remember correctly.
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About right.

Hilariously enough my Mil ID isn't good enough for me to verify my current status as a Reservist...instead the local Tag Office wants a letter with my Commander's signature every year saying I'm still a member. Cause yeah, it's totally legit that I keep carrying around an unexpired White CAC...((cause it is...of course)), but the nitwits at the Tag Office are too inept to understand the basic benefits of service.

They also don't like it when I ask for the letter back every year.

But yes, free tag...not even $1. Boom! ((Yes, in Georgia as well)).
 
surreal1221 said:
About right.

Hilariously enough my Mil ID isn't good enough for me to verify my current status as a Reservist...instead the local Tag Office wants a letter with my Commander's signature every year saying I'm still a member. Cause yeah, it's totally legit that I keep carrying around an unexpired White CAC...((cause it is...of course)), but the nitwits at the Tag Office are too inept to understand the basic benefits of service.

They also don't like it when I ask for the letter back every year.

But yes, free tag...not even $1. Boom! ((Yes, in Georgia as well)).
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It's even funnier when some TSA folks won't accept a mil ID, insisting on a "government issued" ID, like a driver's license.
 
Pilot Fighter said:
It's even funnier when some TSA folks won't accept a mil ID, insisting on a "government issued" ID, like a driver's license.
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ONE TIME...

Traversing the unknown territory of KCM on the Dough-Mestic side of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport...

Scan KCM, hand crew ID and Mil ID in a smooth motion to TSA Defender of All That Is America...

"HEY! CAN WE ACCEPT MILITARY IDS?!"

((Supervisor ten feet away...))

"Why are you yelling...and what do you think? It looks like ours right? Probably says US Government somewhere on it?"

"Ooh, *mouth smack*, I didn't accept them over on the Inter-na-shun-nul side..."

"So, you're going to start accepting all forms of government ID - perhaps most especially military IDs. That's how its done..."

And all along I'm sitting here thinking, 'this isn't the first time i've done this sort of thing and is it really gonna be an issue at my home airport that I've done this at over a hundred times...please Lord not today.'

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It's a very strange world. I would honestly have a hard time not addressing that poor Defender of All That Is America for their ignorance. Most other places I don't bother pulling the Mil ID out of the wallet but I figure the trusted Defender's of All That is American can be trusted...sometimes.
 
Reminds me of when Joe Foss (yes, THE Joe Foss) was transiting KPHX, going through TSA to board an America West flight to Arlington, Va to give a speech in 2002. Was travelling with his Medal of Honor, earned in WWII, as he would be showing it to West Point cadets he would later be giving a speech to. As he's not going to put the MoH in a checked bag, he wa carrying it on his person, when he was held at security because his medal was considered a weapon and was about to be seized.......over his dead body. Only after intervention by Phoenix Police and National Guard on scene, was security able to be convinced of what that odd-shaped piece medallion with the light blue and white stars was. Sadly, he died a year after this event anyway.

"The security agents found his Medal of Honor, which is shaped like a star, and thought it could be used as a weapon, similar to the Japanese throwing discs hira shuriken."

"But for 45 minutes, he estimated, he was passed from person to person, made to remove his boots and tie and belt and hat three different times, and prevented from boarding his flight (he was eventually allowed on) because the security personnel, he said, had misgivings about his Medal of Honor,”

"He was awarded the medal — the nation’s highest military honor for valor in action — by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II after shooting down 26 enemy planes as a Marine fighter pilot in solo combat in the Pacific,"


http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact...6-year-old-stopped-boarding-plane-because-his
 
MikeD said:
Reminds me of when Joe Foss (yes, THE Joe Foss) was transiting KPHX, going through TSA to board an America West flight to Arlington, Va to give a speech in 2002. Was travelling with his Medal of Honor, earned in WWII, as he would be showing it to West Point cadets he would later be giving a speech to. As he's not going to put the MoH in a checked bag, he wa carrying it on his person, when he was held at security because his medal was considered a weapon and was about to be seized.......over his dead body. Only after intervention by Phoenix Police and National Guard on scene, was security able to be convinced of what that odd-shaped piece medallion with the light blue and white stars was. Sadly, he died a year after this event anyway.

"The security agents found his Medal of Honor, which is shaped like a star, and thought it could be used as a weapon, similar to the Japanese throwing discs hira shuriken."

"But for 45 minutes, he estimated, he was passed from person to person, made to remove his boots and tie and belt and hat three different times, and prevented from boarding his flight (he was eventually allowed on) because the security personnel, he said, had misgivings about his Medal of Honor,”

"He was awarded the medal — the nation’s highest military honor for valor in action — by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II after shooting down 26 enemy planes as a Marine fighter pilot in solo combat in the Pacific,"


http://jacksonville.com/reason/fact...6-year-old-stopped-boarding-plane-because-his
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From good old Sioux Falls...love that city. A true legend indeed.
 
Vector said:
Not a bad state to settle in when you look at the financial perks
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MikeD said:
"The security agents found his Medal of Honor, which is shaped like a star, and thought it could be used as a weapon, similar to the Japanese throwing discs hira shuriken."
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Who doesn't know an 85 year old star throwing assasin? Also...

Hira Shuriken
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Medal of Honor
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Medal of Honor doesn't look terribly sharp. You could do more damage swinging a laptop's power supply.
 
dustoff17 said:
THIS!
The issue of your discharge may come up if your medical disclosure results in a restriction. Otherwise I don't think they will know anything about it unless one of them reads JCs forums.
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The condition for which I was discharged does not require a special issuance, so I doubt that in itself will be a problem.
 
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