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Today is one year since I sent my request to Marine Records in Missouri!... Is someone not doing their job?... I realize there are thousands of requests! but come on!!!... feel like I'm back in the Marines! hurry up and wait https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tf6/2/16/1f609.png
Marine1955
08-01-23, 09:16 PM
Is this the same link you used to ask for your records.
F.Y.I. FOR ALL SERVICEMEN IF YOU WANT TO GET COPIES OF YOUR S.R.B. or other records try this link to obtaining them your records hope they will help in your quest to find your Platoon book www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/index.html (http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/index.html)
No, I used an official request form from Marine records Missouri
I tried via internet and it wouldn't allow it to go through.
This is ridiculous to take this long! over 370+ as of today
wsky9er
08-02-23, 08:35 PM
I sent in a request for my records about 20 years ago and it took over a year to get them. Our government is slow.
USMC 2571
08-02-23, 11:03 PM
Consider calling the national records center in St Louis, I forget the actual name. National Personnel Records Center? Good way to cut through some of this red tape.
Zulu 36
08-03-23, 08:51 AM
Going through the National Record Center in St Louis is the much better route. I've always had fairly fast service. I not only got my records, but some of my dad's (his Army records were destroyed in the fire there but I got his Marine files), and I've also gotten records on a bunch of other Marines helping a friend with research on a book.
I also got the records on my old chief of police whom I always suspect was puffing up his experience and claiming to be a Viet Nam vet. Guess what? He never got closer to Vietnam than Camp Pendleton during his two-years in as a draftee.
USMC 2571
08-03-23, 10:16 AM
314 801 0800 is their customer service line, including questions about the status of a request already sent to them.
Kegler300
08-03-23, 05:32 PM
I made a copy of all of my service and medical records right before I retired. I also use to go to Marine On Line and view records such as fitness reports, SRB info, etc.
USMC 2571
08-04-23, 01:33 AM
That's a smart way of looking ahead, so as to have all that paperwork on hand.