Originally Posted by
Jane42
I have only heard with uniform except for the last flight I took, in which I didn't hear that military were being offered to board early.
My son and his wife are both military. My son was told never to travel in uniform, and he told me he would be embarassed of special treatment anyway, so would not show anyone his ID except when needed for the extra luggage he would need to take.
My last SFO-NRT flight they allowed preboarding of military personnel but they took anyone with a CAC - the problem with that is all of a sudden 30-40 people were preboarding, with a huge majority of them being DoD contractors (green stripe on card) and I don't think the folks at the counter knew the difference. Kind of ruins it for the actual active duty folks.