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Old 11-16-2017, 10:45 PM
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Question What active duty time?
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Originally Posted by tcxr750 View Post
If you retired from the National Guard(20 years) be aware that when you contact VA medical or VA Cemetery you may get an immediate response that you are “not eligible “. Research the active duty time you may have on your records making you eligible.
I had encountered this response several times on initial conversation with the VA.
The material that I have read indicated that a National Guardsman who had only their 180 days of initial service and then monthly training and summer camp, could not add up the aggregate time of the monthly training and summer camp to count as creditable time.

I don't know what the situation would be if a Guardsman's unit were to be called up for actual deployment overseas. Is it service of this kind that you think would be creditable?
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