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Main repositories of data on U.S. federal employees, located in the St. Louis area
Public, government-operated tools exist to confirm whether someone served or is on active duty, but they differ sharply in scope: the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) and its DEERS/verification ser...
JD Vance served in the United States Marine Corps from 2003 to 2007 and has been reported to have received several standard service medals, most notably the and the , along with campaign and service r...
Pete Hegseth’s public biographies and news coverage consistently list multiple combat and service awards: most sources name two Bronze Star Medals, the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Expert/Expert I...
is primarily a records-search exercise using the / for separations and channels for current-status checks, but privacy rules and procedural steps mean full personnel files are rarely available to stra...
Available sources identify a Dan(iel) Flood who served in the U.S. Marine Corps and describe roles including combat engineers with Marine Aircraft Group 41 and operational/operational-intelligence wor...
Harry C. Myers is documented in multiple veteran oral-history and archival records as a First Lieutenant navigator in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II who flew B-24 missions across the Eur...
Official U.S. military discharge records (DD Form 214) are maintained by the National Personnel Records Center and can be requested by veterans or next-of-kin; the National Archives explains how to re...
Public records that confirm federal employment include official personnel actions (SF-50s), agency payroll and master employee records, third‑party employment‑verification services such as , and publi...
Selective Service records from the include draft registration cards, classification histories (such as SSS Form 102), lottery results and order-of-call lists, and associated administrative files; many...
Official military records documenting J.D. Vance’s service exist and have been requested and confirmed in past disclosures, but full access to his Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) for members o...
Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF) routinely record deployment-related data such as duty stations, unit assignments, dates of service, and related personnel actions including DD Form 214; these ...
There is active official scrutiny of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth tied to his conduct and some records-related matters, and multiple watchdog groups have filed FOIA requests related to Hegseth’s act...
Available public records and mainstream reporting in the provided sources show multiple official Department of Defense and National Guard–linked biographies and documents that state Pete Hegseth serve...
No source in the reporting provided contains any record that received medals, formal citations, or was assigned to notable deployments; the available documents are general references about Marine Corp...
that can document medical treatment for federal officers injured during enforcement actions exist, but they are scattered across workers’ compensation files, personnel and medical records repositories...
Contemporaneous and have been released for some public figures and those documents—typically administrative deferment cards and classification letters or exam results—show student deferments and later...
A methodical FOIA-driven approach is the journalist’s best route to corroborate allegations tied to historical trafficking or military court-martial evidence: identify the correct custodial agency, cr...
Public access to National Guard officers’ personnel records is constrained by federal privacy rules and a mix of federal and state repositories: limited extracts (dates of service, awards, rank) can b...
DD‑214 and similar separation documents record a veteran’s decorations and awards in a specific block labeled for “Decorations, medals, badges, citations and campaign ribbons” (Block 13 on DD‑214); wh...
Newsrooms confronting disputes over public figures’ military records typically move from immediate sourcing (statements, campaign materials) to primary-document verification — requesting DD Form 214s,...