Income shouldn’t enter into their decision. The military puts a lot on the line and deserve every penny they make. In fact, they don’t get paid enough. It would be nice to do it just to say “Thanks, guys, for making it safe for our citizenry to go to movie theatres and not have to worry about being blown up by terrorists on American soil.”
I’ve been enlisted and I’ve been a student, income has everything to do with it. I served because it was the right thing to do, not so I could get cheap seats at the movies.
Do you offer a military discount at your company? What about your husband’s? I’m not trying to be rude, I’m just curious.
When I was in college, I decided to take a break from studying for semester exams and go to a college basketball game at the university I attended. I called ahead to find how much student tickets were so I could get enough money out of the ATM. I was told $8.00
I show up at the box office and present my student ID and ten dollar bill, and tell her one student ticket. She looks at me and states, “Your not in high school”
“Excuse me”
“Yes sir, student discount are for high school students”
I replied, “Let me make sure I have this right, a high school student gets into the game at a discount, but me, a college student that is paying tuition to attend here has to pay full price?”
“Yes”
and that’s why I to this day will not support the college I graduated from and throw all requests for alumni contributions in the trash.
Even taking into account income, most of the young NCO families almost have to resort to food stamps. When my husband was a young NCO, we had a hard time making ends meet. Our rent was 400 a month, car payment was 250, utilities were around 300 all included. When you income is only a little over 1000 a month, that doesn’t leave much left over. I don’t know what base pay for NCOs are now, but I can’t imaging there has been much of an improvement.