How would you react if someone tried to publicly accuse you of "Stolen Valor"?

1LT Rich Voss - Good luck on getting a copy of your DD 214. I "lost" mine somewhere between the many overseas moves I made during my post-Army career with the State Department. Fortunately they turned up last year, packed away inside a box full of X-rays I'd been carrying from post to post for the last 30 years.

CPT Alfred Smiley - The DMV accepted my VA ID card. My DD214 is in a briefcase that has been in storage for over 15 years. It was a replacement, just a single page but it stated that I had an Honorable Discharge. OTOH, I was only assigned to three posts, and never assigned to anywhere that I would earn any medals so my service records barely filled one page. I was SP4, when discharged after two years of active duty.

SPC Michael Terrell - That's good. You have to have a Disability Rating to get a VA health benefits card. Two-thirds of veterans (the majority) do not claim any service-connected disability and are therefore not in the VA system, so no VA health benefits cards for them.

CPT Alfred Smiley - Any honorably discharged Veteran can get the ID card. The services available to them depends on their income, and their health. I never saw an Army doctor after Basic, but my health was s discharged. Without any medical records I was forced to file Non Service Connected, or die.

1SG Walter Craig - lol. Great distinction. There were many times when I couldn’t decide whether I was in the Army or incarcerated though. That was at the start of my career; 1971,72,73. We had A lot of soldiers that were only in because the judge gave them an either/or and frequently they chose going into the Army. So I guess, spinning like a politician, it was kind of like incarceration. I guess I use both openings.

SFC Freddie Porter - I would bet you use them both in the appropriate manor

I try very, very hard to use both phrases whenever i can always intending to let whoever know, “this ain’t no shit”.

SGT Anthony Shore - You must have had prior service as AR 601-210 state you must join prior to you 35th birthday or be elgible for retirement by age 65. Thank you for your service and stay safe.

Walk away. They aren’t worth the trouble, and I don’t have to prove anything to them. Should a situation arise where a real need to know come up I would use my military or VA ID card.

Geez, I'm old... My Active Reserve component ( post active duty) ID is pink & it has that lovely abbreviation "Indef" in the Expiration Date box. I guess it expires when I do (LOL)

your not old just getting better with age

SGT Debra Jahnel - sounds like Kansas as they don't recongnize retired ID from the military for anything.