How to Order Military Records

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:29 pm

Josh7 wrote:

Is there any benefit to (county) record a military discharge?

The only thing that comes to mind right off, is that it would be easier to get should you need one as opposed to going through NPRC, St. Louis.

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:27 pm

Josh7 wrote:

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Is there any benefit to (county) record a military discharge?

On the advice of a 2 star I recorded mine several wars ago. Other than making another document easily available to my fan club I see no reason to record a discharge, any one else care to comment?

watchman

Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:49 pm

watchman can you check your pm

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:10 am

You have the date of birth so find out how old he was when passed away then you might be able to do a guestimate of his age at or around his discharge-relatively. This might help you with finding out his rank....maybe even hit up a Veteran's hospital or a long lost Veteran's Friends website, ask around about rank and age for that branch of service. I mean, ask the question "What rank would you probably be if say I was 19 years old" You get the age when you calculate the info from his date of birth and date of death, or at least year of death. It's ok if you have quite a few age ranges and quite a few ranks, at least you've narrowed it down by quite a bit.

Just thought I'd throw that out there....maybe you've already thought of this.....

watchman wrote:

When checking for Army records please keep in mind 80 percent of the records for Army personal discharge between November 1912 and January 1960 were destroyed in a fire at the NPRC in St. Louis in 1973.
I have been attempting to reconstruct an Army service record of a deceased WWII veteran who passed away in the mid 70’s and whose files were destroyed in this fire. I have only name, DOB, branch of service and a few faded black and white photographs taken in the early 40’s. Without a military service number, dates of service, place of entry and discharge, unit assignments or rank this task has become somewhat of a challenge and common military record reconstruction proved useless. Unable to locate living relatives from this era or others with information my next step will be to try to establish places of residence after the war years and hopefully a recorded discharge. If this proves negative I think I exhausted all possible leads and it would be time for a crystal ball. Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
Watchman

Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 4:48 pm

RianNeel, welcome to Detective Forums and thank you for your input.

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:37 am

watchman wrote:

RianNeel, welcome to Detective Forums and thank you for your input.

Thank you for your kindness and warm welcome....

-Rian