{"id":69811,"date":"2017-01-14T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69811"},"modified":"2017-01-14T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:19:25","slug":"vets-might-get-to-shop-at-exchange-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69811","title":{"rendered":"Vets might get to shop at Exchange online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of readers are excited that they might be able to shop at the Military Exchange system on line soon. From <a href=\"http:\/\/militaryadvantage.military.com\/2017\/01\/millions-more-vets-to-be-able-to-shop-at-exchanges-online\/\">Military.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After two years of study and debate, the Department of Defense has made a policy change, effective next November, to allow 16 million honorably discharged veterans to shop online for discounted military exchange products.<\/p>\n<p>Peter K. Levine, acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, signed a memorandum Wednesday announcing the benefit expansion, effective Veterans\u2019 Day Nov. 11, and giving Congress the required 30 days\u2019 notice before actions begin to implement the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Months of preparation are needed to make e-shopping portals more robust and to allow the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) time to create software for verifying veterans\u2019 status using Department of Veterans Affairs records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s really not that big of a deal. Area Exchange managers raise their prices to match those outside the gates of military bases &#8211; the only real benefit is that instead of paying state taxes, you&#8217;re paying the same amount to support the Morale and Welfare funds, or UPS. It&#8217;s not the PX\/BX that you remember. It&#8217;s really just another way that the Pentagon can rake in veterans&#8217; money.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I ever shopped there was to screw O&#8217;Malley out of tax revenue in Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of readers are excited that they might be able to shop at the Military &hellip; <a title=\"Vets might get to shop at Exchange online\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69811\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vets might get to shop at Exchange online<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}