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New York City Veterans Week is two weeks of activities and discounts running November 1-14. Kickoff Week November 1-6 includes events from a career fair to tours to school visits. Veterans Week November 7-14 continues with even more events highlighted by the Veterans Day parade on Sunday, November 11. Some events are invitation only and some require advance reservations or ticket purchase, so plan ahead. Veterans Advantage is offering a free VetRewards event cards valid for November: The Veterans Advantage Card Benefits Program has been created to provide greater respect, recognition, & rewards for all those who serve our country’s military and their families: U.S. Veterans Active Duty military National Guard & Reservists All branches, all periods of service Next of kin: Fathers, mothers, sons or daughters. The discounts range from travel to retail in New York in addition to regular…

Reader Justin sent me a link to his site where he maintains a wealth of military travel resources and information.  Check out his Travel Guide for Military Personnel and Families.  Now I am not necessarily endorsing every thing that he links to, but I thought that I would take this chance to review several of…

Flying is certainly not the only area where servicemembers get benefits while travelling; there are many hotels at which we get discounts and perks as well!   Most of the major chains in the US and abroad offer military or governmental rates, which are (usually) discounted from their daily rate. You don’t need to be…

So far this week we’ve gone over benefits that military members get while taking airplanes, rental cars, and in hotels (more on that next week). However, we’ve totally neglected a major mode of transportation that many of us in the Northeast use, and a lot of my friends in the Pacific NW as well. Amtrak…

Hard to believe it has been two and a half years since launching this blog with the sole purpose of educating our fellow military members and veterans on frequent flying tips oriented to our unique part of civil society.  Andy and I are pleased to dedicated the effort to bring you these tips and I need…

Once or twice a year I talk to Scott Higgins, CEO of Veterans’ Advantage, and see what is new over there.  I wrote about that recently, but this post is about something else that Scott is impassioned about – Identity Theft amongst veterans.  He referenced articles that say that veterans are twice as likely to…

Scott Higgins and Roy Asfar from Veterans Advantage sent me an article they wrote for Business Week recently and I wanted to share it with all of you even though it isn’t strictly travel related.  Here is a quote that I liked from the article: “According to a Federal Trade Commission consumer study released in…