Originally Posted by
32LatT10
Interesting considering OP indicated many of them chose to wear clothing emblazoned with their school logo in a public place. Even based on the limited information in this post, if someone from Citadel were reading this I can't imagine it would be too difficult for them to identify the students involved.
My initial inclination is that the gate agent assumed they were recent alumni rather than students or at least didn't want to challenge them with the self-identification as active-duty military. As others have stated, ROTC cadets do not qualify as military much less active duty and I'd have been tempted to query the group if they were actually active duty who just happened to all be alumni (but I probably wouldn't go through with asking them just to avoid creating a confrontation).
Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
Please read the post you're quoting. It specifically says "in the military".
I rememeber when they used to only give early boarding to military in uniform. It made things much easier.
I remember when military were cautioned to not identify themselves as such so while airlines offered early boarding to military in uniform, none of us could take advantage of it. We got pretty annoyed when we found out the airline had military passengers flagged as such on their passenger manifest (and the kicker was that they were using that flag to trigger secondary screening!).