If any of you have more information or experiences let me know and I will post if for all to use. John Myers had this experience
My dd214 was wrong, had my birth date and enlistment date the
same. Sent at least three letters to St Louis and was informed each
time they could not change it. So since I was in the Army (by thier
document) from July 1951 until January 1972 I requested they start my
retirement checks since the document said I'd been in more than twenty
years. I soon got a dd214 correction sheet dd214a as I recall.
Don Jenson did not have the correct items on his DD-214 and wanted to try to get things right. He was talking to someone at the Memphis reunion and they sent him a letter explaining what happened to him in the quest for the RIGHT information. Perhaps this can be of help to some of you guys in C 2/5 Dear Don, Several years ago, we started looking at all of his stuff.....on the wall, in boxes, scrapbooks, etc. I started trying to put into some order all of his orders, certificates, medals, pins, etc. It was then we noticed that his DD-214 was wrong also. It didn't list one silver star, his air medal or Army Good conduct, and a . He had the silver star and the air medal certificate and commendations in a scrap book but they weren't on the DD-214. What I found was that around the spring of 1969 the Army was in the process of converting records from Army numbers to your SS number. The ones NOT on the existing DD-214 were on his SS number. There's a form you can pull off the internet, DD form 149, Sep 2007. It is titled Application for Correction of Military Record, Under the Provisions of Title 10, US Code Section 1552. You'll have to fill it out and mail it (for non-active personnel) to the Army Review Boards Agency, Support Division - St Louis, 9700 Page Ave., St. Louis MO 63132-5200. We didn't hear a word from them for 6 mos. Then, we received an 8 page letter saying they had thoroughly investigated his Army records, the records and movements of the Cav, etc. They granted him not only what was not on his DD-214 but found more that he didn't know about. There were some campaign awards, unit citations and two medals he had no idea he had. So with that doc and the original DD-214, we wrote to the VA requesting a complete set of new awards and medals. We didn't hear, didn't hear.....finally gave up. Then the week after the Memphis reunion we received a cover letter followed by a DD-215 that now has it all. Two weeks after that he received a whole new set of correct medals, pins, stars, etc. It took over a year to "git er done". Start soon and don't expect to light any fires under Army records. It took a year, in all, to get it right. And the Army was notorious for NOT getting it right back then. Most of you guys probably do not have correct dd-214's. Some don't care and never follow up. Some do care but don't know where to start. Some start and the Army takes their good old time figuring it out. Hope this helps. |