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I often go look at a lot of school websites, of all types. I noticed a trend. Many school claim to be military friendly, whatever that means, yet when I look at their administration, no one served in the military. Kinda of tick's me off, don't know why.

 

Regrettably David, words such as [pretense /duplicity] come to mind …

Semper Fi!

 

Must one serve in the military to be military friendly?

 

For a lot of schools today, all "military friendly" seems to mean is that the school is quite happy to take a veteran's GI Bill money.

 

Perhaps, but it is also very common for schools to offer military discounts as well, even for veterans who have exhausted GI Bill benefits.

 

If they award credit for military schools, have a veterans' rep in the financial aid office and grant special privileges for military students who need to deploy, train or transfer then it doesn't really matter if the administrators are vets.

Anyway, there probably are a lot of vets working at these schools, but they don't necessarily post their veteran status on the website. I'm a veteran and work at a university, but there's nothing about that anywhere on the university website. The directory only shows my title, email address and phone number. Unless your important enough to have a bio page on the school website no one will know.

 

There is a lot of skepticism about the term "military friendly", as this 2010 survey indicates:

 

Bingo.

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Having served in the military is becoming more and more rare. First, the military is much smaller than before. Second, it employs a much higher percentage of career members, no longer relying on 2-and-out draftees (or, in the case of the Navy and Air Force, 4-and-out enlistees avoiding service in the Army and Marines--and Vietnam combat). And with the all-volunteer force you also have the military shifting to lower economic echelons, no longer able to draft enlistees from all stations. (Except the Mitt Romneys, Bill Clintons, Dick Cheneys, and Rush Limbaughs of the world who were able to get deferments.)

I think this is having a profound effect on how the military is perceived. People don't get us anymore.