Many insurance companies offer discounts for military members and veterans. The amount of discount will vary between companies. Contacting your relevant military headquarters administration would be recommended.
Allstate does indeed offer discounts on car insurance for active military members. It also gives discounts on other forms of insurance for military members.
United Service Automobile Association (USAA), as well as popular companies like Geico and esurance, offer discounts for members of the military (active or retired). All require proof of military service.
AAA does offer a variety of discounts and benefits on auto insurance for its members.
Some discounts for members of the military include discounts at various stores such as: Kohl's, Express, Extreme Outfitters, Foot Action, and Dress Barn.
Many places offer discounts for retired military such as Lowes and Disney World, however AAA discounts are for members of AAA reguardless of military status.
There may be some free tax software for military members. You should look on the internet to see if any organizations offer such products. If you can't find any free software, some companies may give discounts to members of the military. Finding these discounts online might actually be harder than offline, since it is harder to prove who a person is online.
As with any insurance membership there are advantages and disadvantages. There are many discounts that are for only aaa members, such as hotel discounts, car rental discounts, and even store discounts.
There are many discounts available exclusively to AAA club members which includes car insurance. You could get a free auto quote online at their website.
The Hartford Insurance company offers AARP members a cheaper way of paying for insurance by offering discounts if you are an AARP member. This must be verified by bringing in a valid AARP membership card.
Most companies have a special deals page. You can get major discounts for driving a car to specific locations or discounts for certain cars in certain locations. One of these deal may match with you plans. A couple examples are www.dollar.com/specials/findaspecial.aspx and www.thrifty.com/Deals.aspx One of the best ways to get discounts on car rentals is through associations or affiliations. For instance, most of the major car rental companies offer discounts for military and to members of various organizations such as AARP.
CheapTickets runs its business by attracting travelers or event attendees to their website and then selling tickets, hotel reservations, or car rentals for a discounted price. Thus, the different companies that CheapTickets is buying or renting from control the offered discounts. Some of the companies you can purchase products from on CheapTickets do offer discounts or special deals to AARP members.
I think you have to be in the military to have army car insurance. Because military members and their families move around a lot, they were penalized in the past. For example, people who were deployed often canceled their insurance policies while they were overseas. This caused a gap in their insurance, which insurance companies penalized. Now, many insurance companies (GEICO and the United Services Automobile Association, or USAA, being the first to develop such services) offer to suspend or have lower rates for people who are deployed. Thus they have no gap