In the past I've had some great help out of this site from serving people with current knowledge (pensions, JPA, policy, etc...). Would I ask many of those questions today, probably not for the very reasons BV mentions. And nor would (m)any of my serving colleagues.
That said, it is what it is. It is now more a RBL, VFW, etc than a virtual T-Bar. Not better, not worse, just different.
Long live the mil history forum.
