Sgt. April Cashdollar: Anybody knows, everybody needs medical and it's so expensive in the civilian side to [00:00:05] get anything done. Here we have it available for us twenty-four hours a day, [00:00:10] 365 days a year. Whether you be on leave or, you know, anything you're [00:00:15] doing, you always have that medical available to you, which is very important.
Lt. Dennis Wischmeier: Healthcare benefits, [00:00:20] you're talking about co-payments or percentages, not so [00:00:25] in the military. Your spouse and your children are treated the say way as we are, which is just [00:00:30] one hundred percent coverage, no questions asked, that's just for many [00:00:35] procedures. So it's extremely comforting to know that help [00:00:40] is just right down the road and you don't have to worry about financial matters or anything like that.
Sgt. Wayne Erickson: Well, if you're sick [00:00:45] you go to sick hall. If they say you have bronchitis, your own quarters, you go the pharmacy, [00:00:50] you get your meds, and you go back to your room. The civilian world is not that easy, you have to go [00:00:55] wait in the hospital for two or three hours, be seen, and then go pay $200 for your medication. The Army, [00:01:00] or the military, you don't have to deal with that.
Sgt. April Cashdollar: They have a very good family care plan. [00:01:05] They keep my mom in the loop often, they probably call her once a week, [00:01:10] they send her emails, keep her up to date on the training that we're doing. So it makes it a lot easier [00:01:15] for my family to know what we're doing, knowing what I'm doing and it just keeps them in the loop, [00:01:20] so it helps out.
Lt. Dennis Wischmeier: The other issues, of course being housing subsidies, [00:01:25] commissary privileges, which again, if you do a budget, you [00:01:30] realize that it's a couple hundred dollars savings per year, which add up. And [00:01:35] especially once you start having children and your family size increases [00:01:40] that could easily go into thousands of dollars of savings.
SSgt. See Yong Cheow: Depending on the area where you live, [00:01:45] they'll file a fair market housing allowance and they definitely will take care of you there.
Sgt. April Cashdollar: The gym's [00:01:50] very close. They have a track outside. They really cater to, [00:01:55] obviously, being fit because that's one of our things that we always had to be is [00:02:00] be in shape. So they have a bowling alley, everything's pretty close; commissary, [00:02:05] a little PX, so the accommodations here, they're good, they're pretty good.
Airman Daniel Payne: Aside from the large benefits, some of the [00:02:10] small but still pretty beneficial benefits are things like grocery stores give [00:02:15] certain discounts; certain shoe stores give certain discounts [00:02:20] on sneakers. All there's many places I don't even know of, you just present a military [00:02:25] ID and they're like, oh, perfect, and they give you all kinds of discounts, free stuff, [00:02:30] everything.
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