National Personnel Resords. What Does This Mean?

[Wagon]

 

[OldDoorGunner]

When I went on line to the National Personnel Records to get my records, all I got was a copy of my 214. I also asked for all my records, like my 201 File. Did not get that, just the 214. On the site at the time it said that ALL Medical Records had been sent to the VA and they (NPR) did not have them. I have yet to see them, but will be requesting a copy of my C File from the VA soon to see what the f*ck they have.

Something to consider on your Medical Records. If you were working missions over the fence and you got hit with shrapnal or took a round it is probably not in your record. The reason? Easy, you were not there, so how could you get hit! There a lot of guys in this boat and hundreds that are for the most part getting screwed!!!

Some were lucky and their Medical Records said the got hit in Nam. But unit paper work was so screwed up most of the time, this left a lot of guys in the shit hole.

Side Note: In1970 there was a Dust Up in Korea that was kept quiet. The KIA's were sent to Nam (transfered under orders) and were then counted as KIA's in Nam. DOD, will do whatever they want and we can piss up a tree!!!!

 

[JarHed]

I think it's important at an early stage, after leaving the service, to request all your available records. Like most, I didn't either. It's like all things with 'them', the search for the holy grail. I have done some research online and found the unit diaries from the unit I served with in 'Nam. Day to day stuff about what platoon went where and stuff about ops we did. So info is out there somewhere.

As far as missions that weren't missions if you get my drift there is always a record somewhere. One thing about the gov't, military and VA is that they're all bureaucrats that write down and store everything. Let's hope those records aren't in some basement somewhere.

When I see and read about all this stuff I'm amazed that anything gets done at all.

 

[Ned]

Some of my Army records are 'lost'. But the dents & dings are a bit obvious in origin, so ......meh

 

[Sarg]

Yeah, going for your C-File will help. About the time I got my C-File, I found out that my VAMC had PURGED all of my 70s and 80s med records! Any thing on paper wound up in the shredder. But! My C-Files contained all the C&P exams and all the substantiating information to support my claim. So, really, they didn't hurt my case at all. They just wasted a lot of manpower thinking they were screwing me.

Now, they think they're screwing me by completely mixing up my electronic records...blood panel, mixed in with shrink notes mixed in with nurses notes, ect. So, when I tell a private provider, I tell them to request only notes from a specific Dr. That means the VA have to go back and unscramble their conflagration to find just those notes.

Isn't America grand!

Sarg

 

[Fargo1]

I love the, "All our records were lost, burned, flooded, disintegrated.." response from our bureaucracies. In these instances, it is my opinion that the default response should be to assume that the records would substantiate the claim and proceed with treatment. The burden of proof should fall to the government. If and ONLY if the agency that has incomplete or missing records finds said records, and said records prove that the claims were false, should the treatment stop and repayment for past treatment begin.

All of this is going to be so much better by the continued use of low bid contractors to create massive computer databases on lowest price-point computer systems, with well know and security-hole ridden software. Top it off with low pay, low job satisfaction, bureaucracy employees doing the data entry and database searches.