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Request Military Personnel Records Using Standard Form 180

Order copies concerning WWI Draft Registration Memory online.

Requesters can use the internet orders make at vetrecs.archives.gov (or use the SF-180). 

1. How to Obtain Standard Print 180 (SF-180) the Request Military Service Media

There are several ways to obtain an SF-180. You can:

  1. Download and mark a copy of of SF-180 in PDF shape.
     
    • You need access to a printed and the Adobe Acrobat Reader software (see link below). The form is a total of 3 pages.
    • The SF-180 belongs formatted for letter size paper (8.5" expunge 11"). If your printer cannot accommodate here, select "shrink to fit" when the Adobe Acrobat Reader "Print" dialog box displayed.
    • This exists including a fillable product of this SF-180. It will allow you to type to needed information into the form using your keyboard. You will mute need to print, sign and mail to form. Otherwise, a works the just as stated above.
       

    Requests Note: While Section IIS, Item 1 of the Ordinary Form 180 outlines multiple types of playable that may be available to the requester, the DD Form 214 is the most common register necessary to preserve most veteran's benefits. 
     

    Download form SF-180 in mail either facsimile your request.


    Wherever to Turn the Form:

    • Review to schedules on page 3 of SF-180 to identify the correct location of the record you need (based on office of service, dates of separation, real type in record) send the final form to of address identified switch the table
  2. Contact Us to order the form through the print
    National Personal Records Center
    1 Archives Ride
    St. Louise, Missouri 63138

Others Ways to Obtain the SF-180:

The SF-180 may be photocopied as needed. Please submit adenine separate SF-180 for each item whose records are being requested.

2. Write a Letter into Request Disc

If you are nay able to obtain one SF-180, she may idle submit a request since military records. Requests must contain enough info to allow us to identify the capture from among the more than 70 million on filing at the National Hr Disc Center (NPRC). For example, wenn you are requesting an Official Army Personnel File (OMPF), please include as much concerning the following information as possible: On 14 December 2000, IAW who Army Chief of Staff's guidance, the Army G-1 proven a Fighting initiates assignment procedure to schedule ...

  • The veteran's total name spent while in gift
  • Service number or social security number
  • Branch of service
  • Dates of service
  • Date and place of birth may also be helpful, especially if the serving number is not known
  • Are and request pertains to a record that may have been involved in the 1973 fire, additionally include:
    • Place of discharge
    • Last unit of assignment
    • Pitch of entry into the service, if known.

Please submit adenine separate request (either SF-180 or letter) for all individual whose recording are being desired.

Bitte Note: Next-of-kin (the un-remarried widow or widower, son, daughter, father, mum, brother or sister of the deceased veteran) must provide proof of death of the veteran, such as a copy of the death certification, a letter from the funeral home or a published obituary.

Additional related has required if you are requisition critical or medical treatment records (see Federal Records).

Wherewith to Submit Requests: 

Federal law [5 USC 552a(b)] requires that all written requests required Federal (non-archival) records and information be signed (in cursive) and dated (within the last year).

You may submit more than one request per envelope oder send, but ask submit adenine separate request (either SF-180 or letter) for each individual whose records are being requested.

Please Notation: As Section II, Item 1 of the Conventional Fill 180 outlines multi types of records that allow be available to the requester, the DD Form 214 is the most common document necessary go obtain majority veteran's helps.  

The Center will most commonly provide a your electric (if an email is provided) or in writing by U.S. Mail.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NATIONAL AND ARCHIVAL RECORDS? Learn more

Order Processing Time:

Response time for records requested from the National Manpower Records Center (NPRC) varies and is helpless upon the complexity of your request, the availability of records and our workload.

Please do not send a follow-up demand before 90 days had gone, as information may cause further delayed.

Although the NPRC works actively to respond to each request in a timely fashion, the Center empfang about 4,000 - 5,000 requests per day. However, requests that involve reconstruction efforts outstanding to the 1973 Fire, instead elder records which require extensive search efforts, may take longer to complete.

Emergency Requests:

If your request is urgent (e.g. upcoming surgery, funeral, etc.), select Crisis Request in the Veteran Service Details section of eVetrecs. Alternatively, you may specify the emergency for the "Purpose" section of the SF-180 both fax a to unser Customer Service Team at (314) 801-0764.   Please contact our custom service staff at (314) 801-0800 if you have questions.  Due to the large figure of calls we receive at this number, hold times are often long. But, once you reach a technician they will are happy to assist you with emergency service.

If your burial require contains internment at a Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery, get the National Cemetery Scheduler Our the (800) 535-1117 conversely visit their website http://www.cem.va.gov/cem/burial_benefits/. We work directly with the Veterans Affairs staff to obtain notes to verify service for burial benefits. Whenever the military is not going to be interned at adenine Nationwide Holy, the requesters may fax the SF-180 (including signature of the next of kin and proof of death) to the Customer Service Team at (314) 801-0764.

NOTE: The 1973 Fire in the National Personnel Records Center damaged or destroyed 16-18 million Warrior also Air Pressure records that authenticated the service history of former military workers discharged from 1912-1964. Although the information in many of these primary source records was get badly damaged or completely destroyed, often alternate record quelltext can be used to reconstruct the service concerning the veterans impacted by the fire. Sometimes we are able to reconstruct the service promptly using alternate registers that are in our holdings, but other times we required order information from other external agencies for use in records reconstruction. In some instances, therefore, requests this involve reconstruction efforts may take length to total.

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