Posted on Jan 2, 2020
Do Guardsmen qualify for Veteran Status under any circumstance beyond 180+ day deployment or 20 year retirement?
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So, long story short; I've been asked multiple times by some of my troops if they qualify for veteran status when it comes to hiring, etc. if they've never been activated for the requisite 180 days outside training or retired with 20 years that big army regulation lists.
Our last BDE S1 told me that they do qualify for veteran's preference, etc. so long as they've served 6 years in good standing with the guard ( ie; a full year's worth of points, no AWOL's, so on and so forth. ). The math roughly checks out that 6 years = 180+ days of service, but I've been searching everywhere I can think of and for the life of me cannot find ANYTHING that backs this up. It does seem weird to me that someone could serve in the guard for 10+ years, do multiple state activation periods and/or other voluntary periods of orders; and still not qualify, but nothing says the rules have to make sense. I know the easy "google it" answer, but I can't find anything on this and don't want to be giving wrong answers here it if is actually a thing that I just lack the right way of searching for.
Has anyone ever heard of this? Is it maybe a state-specific rule to our guard units, unusual interpretation, or some weird quirk of Army regs that barely anyone knows about?
Our last BDE S1 told me that they do qualify for veteran's preference, etc. so long as they've served 6 years in good standing with the guard ( ie; a full year's worth of points, no AWOL's, so on and so forth. ). The math roughly checks out that 6 years = 180+ days of service, but I've been searching everywhere I can think of and for the life of me cannot find ANYTHING that backs this up. It does seem weird to me that someone could serve in the guard for 10+ years, do multiple state activation periods and/or other voluntary periods of orders; and still not qualify, but nothing says the rules have to make sense. I know the easy "google it" answer, but I can't find anything on this and don't want to be giving wrong answers here it if is actually a thing that I just lack the right way of searching for.
Has anyone ever heard of this? Is it maybe a state-specific rule to our guard units, unusual interpretation, or some weird quirk of Army regs that barely anyone knows about?
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The long and short is this. A person is a military veteran if any of the following apply to them.
Have been General or Honorably discharged.
Have served 90 days in war time.
Have served 180 days in peace time.
Serving pertains to active duty and training time ie schools count towards this.
Have severed 6 years and not missed any time, no AWOLS etc in the Guard.
Have been General or Honorably discharged.
Have served 90 days in war time.
Have served 180 days in peace time.
Serving pertains to active duty and training time ie schools count towards this.
Have severed 6 years and not missed any time, no AWOLS etc in the Guard.
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The applicable policy is title 38 of the US Code of Federal Regulations. This .pdf does a pretty good job of explaining in layman's terms, specifically page 8 for Guard and Reserves.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42324.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwicypKFwObmAhXSqZ4KHSTiDUcQFjALegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw0rfpw0VZ1wEUtYA0P140UI
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42324.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwicypKFwObmAhXSqZ4KHSTiDUcQFjALegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw0rfpw0VZ1wEUtYA0P140UI
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CPT Paul Bass
yes ! Very interesting. Also here is some more interesting info ! https://militarybenefits.info/how-to-get-a-veterans-id-card/
How to Get a Veterans ID Card | Military Benefits
The U.S. government provides a Veterans ID card under a few circumstances for which most Veterans do not qualify to receive, but there are other options.
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