Who is defined as a veteran

I served during the Global War on Terror at Ft. Campbell though I never was deployed.. My discharge was Honorable for medical reasons. I think since I served more than 90 days active duty in a time of war that I am a legal veteran. I initially was a Special Forces candidate but could not finish training. VA Claims he has no Active Service. Air Force Pay Records no longer exist before or so there is no way to validate his pay status from Any advice?

Try looking at any other documents your Father has. For example, awards, military orders, schools, etc. Awards can be tied to active duty time, as can schools. Good luck! Such term also includes such a home which furnishes nursing home care for veterans. I served in the Air force reserve during the Viet Nam war from to I spent 21 weeks in basic training and tech school. My understanding is that I I have some Veteran status.

I called a lender to see if I qualified for a VA home loan and I was told yes. I never was really in the Military. Why call it Active Duty? You wear the uniform, you support, or are directly involved with special operations, and DFAS sends you a check. I really do not need the VA. Medicare and TriCare for life is ok. Ive just finished reading most of the comments below.

Being injured and released from the service during BASIC training does not quality the individual as a veteran. There are, of course, exceptions to this general rule- usually involving a trainee being seriously njured while training, etc. For example: to qualify for membership in the American Legion, the service member must have served a minimum of one day of active duty during specific periods during which the United States Armed Forces were engaged in a conflict.

The service member is not required to have been involved in the conflict, or to have been a combat veteran.

Spent four and a half months in basic Ft. Gordon, GA. Went to five, 2-week summer encampments. Honorably discharged and have a DD Other than that, we simply trained one weekend per month at our Armory in Chicago.

I assumed that made me a veteran, just not a war veteran. If you were called to active and you have a DD, sir, you are a Veteran. Thank you for your service. I was Active Duty from June to June Upon discharge I received a letter from D. I submitted my reply which was answered with a number and statement that I was to Report to Ft. Ord, California if my number was among those called to active duty. Each year for ten years I received the same letter.

Does the additional years in the IRR mean that I have served thirty years to final retirement? Great waste of time. Never did a thing for me. Obama signed a bill back in that allows reservists and national guard members to be considered veterans.

I think you read the above information incorrectly. Assuming you did all the requirements for the Reserves which is noted by your Honorable Discharge and DD , you are qualified as a veteran. I was still in high school, I was supposed to get discharged the day before I was 21 but my enlistment was changed to 6 years, later to 8 years!

None of this was ever given to me as an option, they just changed the rules after I signed up. This is not right, is there any group who feels the same as I do and is trying to get recognition for their service?

I know there must be many people who served as I did and feel the same as I do. If anyone who is on this site knows about others who are concerned, please contact me and let me know about them.

Idk how I would feel about it if your were considered a veteran. Some would even laugh and belittle us active duty for being stupid enough to be in the front line. I never understood the cowardnes behind joining and signing a contract just to assure that you would be safe for years from being drafted or deployed to fight in a war, insuring that no matter what their calling active duty, inactive ready reserve or a draft way before they ever even put the reserve and national gaurd on standby and activate your unit to deploy.

For a bit of information. During the deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq guard and reservists were deployed right along beside of active duty service members. It was not voluntary. So anyone that joins a guard or reserve unit thinking I will not have to deploy better thank twice. Roughly 45 percent for forces deployed to the war on terror were guard and reserve members with about 18 percent of the casualties from guard and reserve units.

So the general statement they are not veterans does not apply. Also some where activated to active status to replace spots deployed in some units. My husband was in the army for around a year, maybe less, about and never left the US and from what he says he got an honorable discharge for mental health issues and he is on SS disability and turns 65 this year but has no paperwork and can barely tell me anything now…where do I even begin to see if he can get benefits since he can give me hardly any information??

You might be amazed how much info is publicly releasable about any servicemember. You will know his type of discharge, where he served, duty stations, awards, training, combat, other things, but not medical information.

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Nor had the conduct of these veteran soldiers been less exemplary in their quarters than in the field.

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Words nearby veteran Vesuvius , vet , vetch , vetchling , veter. There is no minimum number of days a student must have served on active duty to be considered a veteran. However, periods of active duty for training, pursuant to an enlistment in the National Guard or Reserves, do not qualify a student as a veteran. Thus former or current members of the National Guard or Reserves are not considered to be veterans unless they had prior or subsequent service with an active component of the Armed Forces.

Reservists called to active duty by Executive Order qualify as veterans.