Hardly a week goes by that someone doesn’t email me to ask how they can get their own military records or the military records of a relative. It’s a fairly simple process and the National Archives provides easy directions at their website. This video explains the process;
Despite what many folks believe, I can’t influence the process and it takes weeks and often months to get records back from the NPRC. And I don’t involve myself in the process of getting people’s records for reasons I’d rather not discuss. You’ll notice that I usually get folks’ records from POW Network to provide me with a layer of separation from the process. They know why and they’re fine with it, bless their hearts.
I’m posting this information, not to keep you from emailing me, I don’t mind, but there are probably some people who don’t email me but they have questions. This is the same information I mail to everyone (well, except the video which I just found).
There’s also an article at Stars & Stripes about the reconstruction of the records lost at the NPRC in the 1973 fire which has been an excuse of some of our phonies.
It has been a major excuse….Heh! But, I digress…
Forget requesting records, where do I apply for a job with them? That one lady who wears her pajamas all day and just prints paper to be filed in a cubby hole? I want her job.
http://youtu.be/_IkBXlGebeM
Thanks for this. My grandpa is the exact opposite of the posers you bust all the time; nobody in my family even knew he was in the military until he died. We found a bunch of uniforms and flight suits/ helmets and stuff with his name on them. He never mentioned his service, even when I enlisted. I’m going to use this to try to find his records.