{"id":2115,"date":"2009-08-26T19:08:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T02:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/military-records\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T19:08:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T02:08:46","slug":"military-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/military-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/pers-rec.jpg' alt='pers-rec.jpg' class='right' \/>One of the items on my &#8216;things I need to do before I retire&#8217; list was to obtain a copy of my Military discharge record (<strong>DD-214<\/strong>).  While I was at it, I asked for the contents of my military personnel record, containing things like training records, performance records, enlistment agreement and so forth.<\/p>\n<p><em>Right: cover letter and records<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The records showed up last week, about six weeks after I sent the fax with my authorizing signature to the records center. I dug through the package &#8211; boy, was that a trip down memory lane. Page after page of forms and records documenting my time as a Sailor. Seeing my (immature 17 year-old) signature on the enlistment papers brought back that moment in time when I sat in the recruiting office and signed.<\/p>\n<p>I was in the U.S. Navy (Naval Reserve, to be exact) for six years, three of those on active duty. I signed up when <strong>Eisenhower<\/strong> was in the oval office and mustered out when <strong>LBJ<\/strong> was busily ramping up the war in Vietnam. <\/p>\n<p>I never regretted my military service to the country. My career benefited from military training in electronics and aviation plus the G.I Bill paid for much of my education. I have never had a problem finding employment, often working two jobs simultaneously (when I was much younger and ambitious).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a veteran or the immediate survivor of a veteran you can order these records online at The National Archives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/veterans\/evetrecs\/index.html\">eVetRecs website<\/a>. Ordering them is fairly simple; you will need to sign a form they email to you and fax it to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the items on my &#8216;things I need to do before I retire&#8217; list was to obtain a copy of my Military discharge record (DD-214).&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}