Military Record Search - How to Find Anyone's Records Using Government Databases

A very large misconception about some military records is that they are classified, and cannot be accessed by the average U.S. citizen. While some of the nearly 60 million U.S. military records in existence are not available, many are. The problem has never been so much accessing those records, but rather, accessing them online.

Most of our public military records are stored in the National Personnel Records Center. Until the late 1990's, much of those records were in paper format only. Considering that these records stretched back to as early as the 1880's, providing access to the public was not much of a priority for the records center.

There was quite a bit of controversy a few years ago as an online genealogy site made several million records available to the public. This sparked some outrage from those who felt that this information shouldn't have been released, when in fact, the archival records were already public; the genealogy site simply digitized them so that others could access selective information.

Since that time, and partially thanks to advances in technology and decreasing costs of data storage, several other enterprising companies have stepped forward to digitize all of these public archival records. To the average person, that means that we can find and view just about any archived military service record in minutes by accessing the exact same data that the U.S. government accesses.

It is important to note, however, that not all records are archival records. Non-archival records are still considered the property of the National Personnel Records Center, and while they are not available from these public databases, they are still available by request under the Freedom of Information Act. God bless America!?

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