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Retiring/separating reserve officers who transitioned to GS
- Thread starter Buffmeyer
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Tested it out today at Andrews. Checks 4.0.
I heard a rumour that it excluded booze. But I'll wait for someone at the register to turn me away.
SELRES_AMDO
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They sent an all hands email out at my work specifically stating booze and tobacco are not allowed. I don't know if workers actually care.
That being said, does anyone in CONUS really shop at the exchange? I remember the NASNI exchange being mostly overpriced garbage compared to Amazon/Costco. The super Walmart by my house was cheaper than the commissary. OCONUS is a different story.
Wonder if this will affect reserve recruitment since VA disability or GS jobs gets you on base and exchange access. I remember when I joined the reserves the big selling point from the recruiters were base access and commissary privileges.
NEX access is nice if you work on a base. Also decent prices on kids clothes, name brand stuff, and electronics (or may as well get it tax free). Or maybe if you're on base for a change of command and your wife needs flip flops for the after party because her fancy shoes are giving her blisters.
But I can't imagine going out of my way for one or joining the reserves to get access to one.
Events that transpired today, prior to reading this:
I go to the self-checkout at a commissary with a sandwich. As a non-commissary regular, I immediately just try to scan the sandwich so I can pay.
Commissar: "You scan ID, siiiiir."
Me: "Oh..." Pulls out CAC, scans both bar codes and nothing happens. "So...which ID?" Then I pull out my retirement ID and it scans immediately.
Commissar: "Retirement ID, siiiir."
Maybe the machines hadn't received Chuck's memo yet.
I go to the self-checkout at a commissary with a sandwich. As a non-commissary regular, I immediately just try to scan the sandwich so I can pay.
Commissar: "You scan ID, siiiiir."
Me: "Oh..." Pulls out CAC, scans both bar codes and nothing happens. "So...which ID?" Then I pull out my retirement ID and it scans immediately.
Commissar: "Retirement ID, siiiir."
Maybe the machines hadn't received Chuck's memo yet.
SELRES_AMDO
Well-Known Member
I'm a reservist/GS and once tried to scan my Civ ID to see what would happen. It worked and let me purchase food.
I think it all leads back to the same MilConnect database. If you got to MilConnect you can see your various roles if you have them. Back when I was in the IRR and a CTR for my day job if they scanned my green stripe CAC at the gate it showed up that I was an Officer and the gate guard would salute me. Which was weird when I was in full on civie mode.
Go old school and slap a blue strip on the windshield...then slap a rank sticker on top, so those gate guards know who they're dealing with!
The first time it happened I had no idea what was happening because I wasn't a "practicing reservist" and I hadn't been saluted or thought about saluting protocol in ages. And the gate guards didn't scan your card during rush hour. But then I came in at an off time, the guy scans my card, and then pops a salute and won't give me my card back until I acknowledge it. I was dumbfounded. But I fixed that problem by resigning from the IRR the instant my obligation was up.
Are you no longer working air ambulance?
I believe the industry term is "sandwich artist."