Posted on Jul 6, 2020
Son is prior service Army, 3 year break in service and is now being told his awards are unauthorized?
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My son reenlisted in the Army after having been out 3 years. The unit he just reported to has informed him his service record is unavailable and his DD214 is not sufficient for these purposes. Before I retired from the Navy, all of ours service records had become available on line. I also know milconnect is a place I could have gone to obtain all this information ?
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If it is on his DD214, it is an authorized award. Whoever told him it’s not, do not have an understanding of their job and need to re-read the regulation. Your DD214 list any awards you received while serving, as well as time served, deployments, training, and schools. The DD214 can be used to receive credit for all of these. When they do the input in eMILPO, the date of the award (etc) would be the date of the DD214.
I took a 12year break in service and used my DD214 for my source documents for the awards I no longer had copies of.
I took a 12year break in service and used my DD214 for my source documents for the awards I no longer had copies of.
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Yes Sir, they still review and upload your records into your iPerms. If you don’t have your documents but it’s on your DD214, your 214 becomes the source document. If it is not on the 214 and you don’t have a copy of it, it can’t be added. LTC Jason Mackay
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LtCol William Bentley
CMDCM Richard Moon - The AR in question is AR 600-8-22, paragraph 1-37(g) : https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN18147_R600_8_22_admin2_FINAL.pdf
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SFC (Join to see) - My s1 is telling me they can't use my dd214 as the source document since the order number is not in there. I am currently scrambling trying to find those papers from 11 years ago, but my s1 back there never uploaded anything on my record. So the dd214 is all I have. How did your s1 do it without the order numbers?
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If he has the original certs with order #'s and/or the recommendation form(s) signed by the approving authorities, he will be good to go on that. If not, then submit a SF 180 request for all documents thru the Nation Archives. This route will take a bit though....depending on how long the service was and what areas of documents you are requesting.
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TSgt Scott Hurley
After 2003 all records are handled by the branch of service if they got out after 2003. If its before that then its the national Archives in St. Louis.
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All his service records should be available from Army Human Resources Command (HRC). (Provided he actually had his records straight before his break in service.) https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Accessing%20or%20Requesting%20Your%20Official%20Military%20Personnel%20File%20Documents
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