There are many stories out there like this, I know when 4 of us flew back from Bahrain back in 2007 everyone could tell we were military and the london flight crew came and got us out of coach and brought us up forward to take the empty first class seats, when the first class passengers saw what was happening they all gathered around us and talked with us entire flight to england, and when we boarded our flight from england to states some of them were with us and gave up their spots to us so we can enjoy the nice flight home. It was a great feeling to be recognized by foreigners like that, and honestly a non military town shows so much more support then a regular military town, fly into norfolk and you see military all the time so no they dont give up seats or say a word to you but show up in some obscure ( non military town ) and you will get all sorts of commendation. It is a great feeling to be sure. Sorry for hijacking thread just wanted to say there are a lot of us out there that have experienced this and i wanted to say thank you for letting me serve you!