For those of us "non-retiree" vets who don't have a military ID, I wonder if they would honor a DD 214? The closest thing I've got to a military ID card with my picture on it is my VA medical card, and some of the patient info on that needs to be guarded pretty closely.

Stewart- - - -just as a point of information- - - -that rubber seal DOES NOT work on an engine made for a rope seal. It fits the groove just fine, but the depth of the groove is incorrect for any sealing to be done. The engine I'm working on for you will be a moot point- - - -since I'm machining it for a full circle lip seal that will never leak.
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!