Employment discrimination question - is this legal?

[Hound]

So this means I can't even apply for it, because I'm not a veteran? That sucks. Just don't seem right.....

I am sure you will disagree with this but I am all for it. For those that have given service to this country and sacrificed so much.. preferential treatement is justified. While they are in the service, they are under paid, often disrespected, work hours that most civilians can't imagine, many times [when they are 'off'] either have a crappy bed or no bed, are away from home for months with little to no communication in many cases, and generally are working in the ovens, freezers or any other hell holes of this world. These are not even necessarily the guys on the front lines being shot at, blown up, deep under water, flying high on dangerous missions or in some cases are behind enemy lines.

Ya.... Do your time, get out.... You should get head of the line privledges for protecting all of us so there is a job to be worked.

If you served and are reading this..... Simply, Thank you.

If you don't like it... Join up. Nobody is stopping you.

[Dave_L]

I am sure you will disagree with this but I am all for it. For those that have given service to this country and sacrificed so much.. preferential treatement is justified. While they are in the service, they are under paid, often disrespected, work hours that most civilians can't imagine, many times [when they are 'off'] either have a crappy bed or no bed, are away from home for months with little to no communication in many cases, and generally are working in the ovens, freezers or any other hell holes of this world. These are not even necessarily the guys on the front lines being shot at, blown up, deep under water, flying high on dangerous missions or in some cases are behind enemy lines.

Ya.... Do your time, get out.... You should get head of the line privledges for protecting all of us so there is a job to be worked.

If you served and are reading this..... Simply, Thank you.

If you don't like it... Join up. Nobody is stopping you.

^This. Anyone can go serve and get this "preferential" treatment.

[kfd82]

^This. Anyone can go serve and get this "preferential" treatment.

Not true.

[tmleadr03]

^This. Anyone can go serve and get this "preferential" treatment.

Not so much.

[Dave_L]

Not so much.

I apologize. My statement may have been too broad. I just don't see why we'd pick on vets getting a little boost.

[rondog]

I apologize. My statement may have been too broad. I just don't see why we'd pick on vets getting a little boost.

I'm not picking on vets, not at all, not even close. I was merely checking into a job lead and ran into something I'd never heard of before. I think jobs programs just for vets is awesome, I'd just never knew there was such a thing. I was merely asking about it, ain't no reason for people to get upset or read something into it that ain't there.

The only reason I asked about "discrimination" is because that EEOC stuff has been beat against our foreheads for how many years now? When I ran into a job posting that stated "only XXX may apply for this", I was taken aback. I asked about it here because I know there's so many vets on this board, and I figured y'all would know what it was about. You sure as hell can't call usajobs.gov and ask them! Kinda sorry now I even brought it up.