I’m prolly better off without veterans status. Don’t want to bend the rules for it anyway. It would be like that bread machine I bought and stored for years after the newness wore off and I gained 10 lbsMaybe Gypsy could pull a few strings for you and get you the veteran status sooner then what's stated by the rules. Your enough of a long standing contributor to the site that I doubt anyone would even know that favors were cashed in.