Thomas C Shull, the CEO of Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) has presented a business case to the DoD's Executive Resale board this month to allow over 18 million honorably discharged veterans to use military exchange services.  This creates a $100M increase in revenue possibilityfor AAFES and is currently referred to as the Veterans Online shopping Benefit (VOSB.)

Unfortunately, despite the lack of any increase cost to taxpayers, the Navy & Marine Corps exchange's senior policy officials are challenging an on-line availability of the VOSB.

"{Navy Officials}….believe hurdles to implementing online shopping for all veterans will be higher than AAFES predicts, particularly in finding a foolproof way to verify veteran status and the character of their discharges…"

http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2014/08/aafes-makes-business-case-for-all-vets-to-shop-online/

As an information assurance professional, don't you love a challenge?  Why could there not be a simple gateway to include the already used DS Logon to the AAFES online shop? The Department of Defense Self-Service Logon (DS Logon) is a secure, self-service logon credential which allows individuals affiliated with the DoD or VA to access multiple websites using a single username and password.  The vetting process is proven and the security is quite extensive.