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Met alot of people who love blowing their own trumpet, very often for completely see through (ie, BS) or souped-up tales - a psych would probably say to make up for an inferiority complex.
As Metallica put it, 'the empty can rattles the most'...
Any person who lays claim to anything they didn't do, especially in military operations, detracts from the real folks who were actually part of the operations, not just the Tuskegee Airmen. Being an idiot doesn't have any specifics (age, race, color, creed, etc etc etc).
Update: this week the powers that be announced they will not be putting Mr. Garrison's name on the building.
Excellent, though it should have been a no brainer.
Anyone who served has a DD214. Over time however records can be lost.
I know I keep lots of copies of mine.
A fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis in 1973 destroyed the personnel records for 80% of Army (which would include USAAF) personnel discharged between 1912 and 1960. There was no complete duplicate set of those files anywhere else.[SC] Arachnicus;925018 said:Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't is possible to obtain almost all records of those who served? I'm pretty sure that it does not take long to verify if someone was or was not in the military.
Some reservists don't get DD214s. I had a "Letter of Separation" and an honorable discharge certificate from the USNR. This played hell when I attempted to get a VA loan because some of the bureaucrats at the VA don't know this. I had one guy tell me that reservists weren't eligible for VA benefits!
To make matters worse, my discharge certificate was signed by an O-6, "C.M. Saylor"!!! I thought it was a joke but the dude was real!Interesting. I did not know that. I thought that all that served, received a DD214 when they separated. I guess it only applies to those that were Active Duty.
I know I received one original copy that is signed in ink. I made tons of copies of it then, and only give out copies. Which reminds me, I still have not heard back from the VA about my Veterans License Plates that I ordered. It has been about 3 weeks now.