Members of the armed forces receive reduced rate rail travel by showing the railcard, a benefit recently extended to reservists.
As an former Reservist (16 years served) it would be great if it's extended to my ilk also
I'd probably travel more by rail as a result.
24****39 Trooper TonyK, formerly Duke of Lancasters Own Yeomanry, fired guns, rowed canoes, got very drunk, and guarded Gibraltar with a loaded rifle, although without instructions as to who to use it upon, and not necessarily in that order, in the early 1970s. I learned a tiny bit of Spanish while swapping cigarettes with the enemy through the fence(I no longer smoke) and remember well the order to not shoot any of the Barbary Apes, as it costs money to ship them over. I now have a Senior Git railcard, so I suppose it matters not.
One of my sons-in-law is in the
RAF▸ . If you watched the series of fighter pilot training on ITV, you will see in the opening credits a shot of the Voyager refuelling tanker, taken from the aircraft that he was on, escorting and refuelling some F35s back to what is still for the moment the
UK▸ . He has often been in the US, and recently took my daughter and two grandsons on holiday on a coast there. He produced his military ID and received discounts up to 100% at a number of attractions, with "Thank you for your service" as the greeting, despite him being a freeloader serving the last few months of his 23 years. I am sure he would love a former services railcard to help him eke out his service pension. And his mammoth salary as a civvy aircraft engineer.
There are a number of perks available to our armed forces members, past and present, such as free entry to any of the royal palaces, and indulgence flights, being a spare seat on an aircraft to anywhere the RAF flies, at a massive discount. Fair play, I say - they don't get paid much, and the medals don't put bread on the table.
