RV'ing at the Naval Station in Key West

gbopp wrote:

TNRIVERSIDE wrote:
Looks like its not all Veterans.

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Active, National Guard, Reservists, Retired, 100% DAV, DoD Civilians, DoT civilians working for Coast Guard, NATO allies on orders to the US.

Isn't America great? I commented on this about a year ago.

A combat wounded veteran will be turned away from a military campground.
But, a pencil pushing civilian who never served will be welcomed with open arms.

We need to rethink our hero status..... JMO

Where do you get "pencil pushing civilian" ... civilians are not allowed to camp in military campgrounds. Active duty, retired military, and Disabled Veterans in that order.

Although, the base commander can allow DOD assigned to his base to camp. I personally disagree with DOD camping, but am not a CO ... it is technically against the law for DOD to camp, but many bases turn a blind eye to it because it generates revenue. And, we all know the dollar is top dog ...

One problem with allowing DOD civilians - it fills up the sites long-term, and then an authorized military family gets turned away. We have that battle a lot.

DOD get a housing allowance, quite a bit, to rent locally when working in DOD projects - then some of those folks rent a CG space for about a fourth of that allowance, and put that extra money in their own pockets. In fact, some AD families get BHA, and do the same thing ... I believe it's illegal, abuse of funds to do it - but that's a losing battle as well. The folks that benefit from that abuse are the ones that make those enforcement choices - so, guess what?