There are others. Once you have served in a combat unit for 90 days in wartime or in foreign operations, you are a veteran. I got my veteran's card for my first tour which was during the first Gulf war, when I spent about 100 days in the theatre of operations. Then you may go on to a second, third or fourth tour, but that does not change your status at all. You become a veteran on the basis of that first tour.
