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Old 01-13-2019 | 02:21 AM
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Originally Posted by speedracerntrixie



I appreciate your service to our country whether you choose to beleive that or not. That being said, it gets you no additional privileges here on RCU above and beyond mine. You already get discount goods and gasoline if you have a base near by and medical benifits at taxpayer expense.

I have no power, just an average Joe. If I had any power the AMA forum here on RCU would be shut down.

NOBODY wants nor needs you to stand up for them! You have no power either. Franklin is the ONLY AMA member here complaining. The other 200K members are not complaining here on RCU. That's a awesome customer service rating if you ask me.



Obviously you've never been in the military. Let me explain the errors of your post:
1) I don't get unlimited access to military bases since I didn't retire from the navy. To get those benefits, you have to retire with at least 20 years of service
2) I don't know where you heard those in the military get discounted goods. When I was in, the (at the time) wife would go through the ads from the local grocery stores and see what was on sale that we needed. We would then go to the commissary and go shopping. Many times, what we found was that the commissary was actually higher, cost wise, than the civilian grocers. Hell, even eating at the chow hall cost me. I either didn't get a food allowance and got in at no cost or got a food allowance and had to pay directly for any meals I got there. BTW, my food allowance was only around $110 per month, not much you could do with that. As far as the Navy Exchange(PX for you that didn't want to be around water), it isn't any cheaper than the civilian stores. The only difference is that there wasn't sales tax. If I was in Oregon, there wouldn't have been any difference in pricing. Here in Washington, it would save me between 7.5 and 8.5% in sales taxes. That's hardly what I would call discounted since I could just wait until the same item went on sale at a civilian store and pay the same thing for the same item.
3) Discounted gas? Not when I was in. It was possible it was reduced state taxes on gas. By the time all was said and done, I paid just as much for gas on base as I did out in town
4) Finally, you hit one that I COULD USE. Unfortunately, there are only two medical facilities that I have access to and neither one is on a military base. Both are overloaded and understaffed, when you can get in to be seen. It routinely takes months just to get an appointment. Worse yet, when I could get in, the closest one is south of Seattle, the other is outside of JBLM Lewis-McCord, almost 100 miles away. It's actually easier to use local civilian medical facilities, use my civilian medical insurance and pay the deductible. I don't have to wait for months and the care I receive is actually better

Now, let me repeat what I also posted earlier. 70+% of the AMA members didn't vote in the last election. That means only around 30% care about who is in Muncie and, even those don't get a real say in what's going on. I'm helping the other 70% that don't care since they don't get a say and probably know it. Since I can see what you can't, that being the AMA is in trouble on multiple fronts, maybe you need to start listening to what others are saying. Franklin is sounding an alarm and you can't see or hear it because you don't want to, just like you don't understand the military since you only saw things from the outside as a dependent and not as someone that was actually under contract

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