The Department of Veterans
Affairs has been playing coy since it first announced that new veterans
identification cards — wallet-sized IDs that allow people to prove their
military service without a copy of their DD214 — will become available
to former service members beginning in November, revealing details about
the application process in piecemeal. Now the department has graced us
with a little more information.
Military.com, which first broke the news of the new veteran IDs earlier this month, now reports that vets who want one of the new cards must first register online with Vets.gov, a website that authenticates users through the ID.me system. Officials originally told
Military.com that veterans would be able to apply for the cards online,
but provided few specifics; they were no less taciturn with Task & Purpose.
We did confirm, however, that veterans will not
be able to use the cards as proof of age when shopping for adult
commodities like cigarettes and beer, because they are not official
government-issued IDs — which, as a Military.com notes, also means they can’t be used for things like air travel.
Unfortunately, we still don’t know what the cards will look like.
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