Visit the Web site for the National Archives, the repository for U. S.military personnel and other federal government records, for a list of the personal information available without an authorization of active duty and retired military. The Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act site returns instant verification of current active military status but the fields are more restrictive than those offered in a mailed FOIA request.
Limited personal employment information - position titles and occupational series, grades, annual salary rates, duty stations, and position descriptions for the present and the past - is also available on civilians who have worked for the military.
The U.S. National Archives Web site indexes the Archives’ holdings and has searchable databases of personal information on current and former military personnel. Browse the list of all subject databases by category. Here are a few of the military databases.
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Casualty Information System, 1/1/1961 - 12/1981
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Records of Awards and Decorations of Honor During the Vietnam Conflict
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Review the list of the NARA military databases.
I am helping my husband search for his father. We know he was in the Army from at least 1969-1972, that he was station at the Itaewon base in Seoul, South Korea during that time, and his first and last name and approximate age. My husband’s mother is Korean and we don’t think his parents were ever married. Is any department in the Army responsible to assist “war children” in finding their parents? What is the best way to proceed in searching for him?
Dear K.Mun,
I would like to assist you if you would like. I am not a licensed private investigator as of yet but I have experience searching for people. I have been able to track down my husbands family back 3 generations, and have found family he didn’t even know he had. If you would like some help searching I would be glad to help. You can email you response. If I don’t hear from you I understand. I wish you great luck in your search.
Sincerely
Stacey Zellmer
Great site. I recently found out that one of my fellow soldiers during RVN ‘67-’68 had died in 1998 of cancer. We were in the midst of Agent Orange (documented)and hope his family knew this fact and followed up.
I am searching for my father Arthur Thomas. We have never known each other. He was in the Army in 1951, overseas, which means he enlisted in 1950. He was 21 years old in 1951.He was from the Newark/Irvington Neew Jersey area, white,of Welsh decent dropped out of HS in 9th grade and was an auto mechanic.Can his Army records be found?
Bob Hafetz
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I am trying to locate my 1/2 brothers and sister need some help my father I have never met he lived in mesa arizonia and died in sept of 06. cant find an obit for him can any one help.
Contact the Arizona Department of Health Services to obtain a death certificate: http://azdhs.gov/vitalrcd/
I am searching for an Army buddy of my father. The gentleman’s name is Phil Mckinney they were stationed together in Nurenburg Germany in the early 1970’s.