Joseph Orlando

Chapter 53 - 8 Benefits Medal of Honor Recipients Get

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I adapted the real benefits to the 24th century. Any that you think should have been added?

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Winning the Medal of Honor also had some official, practical benefits as well, benefits that mirrored many from my own time actually. The first of which was a monthly pension from the Federation that I would receive for the rest of my life. It wasn’t much compared to my current wealth, but it would come in like clockwork for as long as I lived. The second benefit was priority access to all official Federation and Starfleet facilities and bases, including priority docking, maintenance, and repair for my ship, which the Temptress was benefiting from right now, as well as access to facilities and assets that only active-duty Starfleet personnel could usually access. The third benefit was priority travel on all Starfleet vessels. If they were not on a classified mission and assuming that they had the space, I could board any Starfleet vessel and go along for the ride to wherever their destination was. Again, this was a benefit I wouldn’t likely make much use of considering I had my own starship, but it was a very valuable thing.

The fourth benefit was an invitation to attend every presidential inauguration in the future, which included paid travel back to Earth. In other words, whenever a new Federation president was sworn in, I would be officially invited to attend the inauguration and given a place of honor. The fifth benefit was an exemption from any quotas mandated for Starfleet Academy. Any dependent of mine would receive a priority appointment examination for the Academy, even if my dependents were non-Federation citizens. How this benefit, codified into law, would interact with the ban on the genetically engineered serving in Starfleet was anyone’s guess, but it would certainly help muddy the waters further if one of my future children decided that they wanted to serve in Starfleet. The sixth and final official benefit was the right to full military burial honors.