zb39 wrote:
My experience is you have to be retired military or have a huge disability to use them.
The only thing that changed with the passage of the Purple Heart and Disabled Veterans Equal Access Act of 2018 was opening MWR facilities to disabled "Service Connected" and/or Purple Heart veterans. However, long before that new access group, the length of stay issue was always a hinderance to space availability. So long as a facility allows stays up to 6 months, there will always be limited availability at those locations. Currently, retired military makes up the bulk of long term users who have maximum stays that results in reduced availability.