bosjt wrote

Here's the process of getting the Military service incentive. You need to be the serving member or veteran, or the spouse or immediate family member (even if the serving member or veteran has passed away). In my case its my father who is the veteran and he passed away two years ago.

You do not need the DD-12 discharge document but you do need the veteran's service branch, rank, and at least one date during their service (e.g., their starting date at the rank) and you need the SSN, full name. If you can't find that information you could guess, I suppose. But you can also get the government to find the DD-12 with that info on it for you... but they warn it could take up to 90 days and that they get over 4,000 requests a day for finding this kind of info.

Once you have it go here https://www.bmwusa.com/contact/military-discount.html

You don't need to build out a vehicle; just look for the panel with the ID.Me button on it. You click that and the process starts. It takes 2 minutes. See the pictures below.

You need to get an ID.Me login from the government... this is what you can also use for your e-file tax returns.

For me today, it was a way to remember my Dad again and appreciate one more gift he gave me. I just wish I could take him for a ride and talk some more.

LDT wrote

bosjt Nice writeup and thanks. One can also use the TrueCar Military site to get the certificate where it will not be dealer specific.

bosjt wrote

Here's the process of getting the Military service incentive. You need to be the serving member or veteran, or the spouse or immediate family member (even if the serving member or veteran has passed away). In my case its my father who is the veteran and he passed away two years ago.

You do not need the DD-12 discharge document but you do need the veteran's service branch, rank, and at least one date during their service (e.g., their starting date at the rank) and you need the SSN, full name. If you can't find that information you could guess, I suppose. But you can also get the government to find the DD-12 with that info on it for you... but they warn it could take up to 90 days and that they get over 4,000 requests a day for finding this kind of info.

Once you have it go here https://www.bmwusa.com/contact/military-discount.html

You don't need to build out a vehicle; just look for the panel with the ID.Me button on it. You click that and the process starts. It takes 2 minutes. See the pictures below.

You need to get an ID.Me login from the government... this is what you can also use for your e-file tax returns.

For me today, it was a way to remember my Dad again and appreciate one more gift he gave me. I just wish I could take him for a ride and talk some more.

FrederickMD wrote

This is great - I used it this fall - pretty cool. Hey being a AF brat and having to make new friends multiple times was just OK. But got to live in Alaska!

BTW I think you mean DD214 (which I happened to have as I setted his estate etc)

FrederickMD wrote

BTW I think you mean DD214

X5Jim wrote

Thanks bosjt for posting this! Perfect timing and you just saved me 4k!