Are there copies of Basic training certificates, AIT cert's, Letters of accommodation, Desert Storm scroll of appreciation etc. Available????

2020-07-28T12:56:50-04:00

I am a combat medic that was honorably discharged at the completion of my service contract, I was mobilized thru the Oklahoma NG 45th infantry to serve Operation DS, Via Desert Dustoff, My unit has since been disbanded.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 28 at 2020 1:05 PM

2020-07-28T13:05:07-04:00

National Archives with the submission of an SF 180

https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/standard-form-180.html

Request Military Personnel Records Using Standard Form 180

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Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 28 at 2020 1:06 PM

2020-07-28T13:06:10-04:00

Federal military records are kept at the National Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC), in St. Louis you might have some luck there. vetrecs.archives.gov You could also do a records request from the OK Military Department in OK City. Also ebenefits at the VA website has some records as well

Response by LTC Jason Mackay made Jul 28 at 2020 9:53 PM

2020-07-28T21:53:59-04:00

SPC Jackey Babb The only place a letter of appreciation or accommodation might be is if It were used on a promotion point worksheet and it was accepted into your OMPF. Otherwise that was a them to you thing.

If you have any certifications from AIT, they might be on your Joint Service Transcript. Try logging on with a DS Login and pulling your JST. It won't have original documents, it will just have the course and some amount of credit and or a specific credential earned (like EMT-B).

The Operation Desert Storm Desert Shield Recognition Certificate, a DA Form 5995-1 has been an inactive form since 1997. https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/Details.aspx?PUB_ID=68292

Perhaps writing directly to HRC Awards Branch you could see if they could generate one for you.

Not sure what can be done about BCT and AIT certificates. They are supposed to be in your OMPF, but you come from the time of microfiche, so if they were there, they'd been grainy black and white photos the size of a postage stamp requiring conversion to paper or PDF.

As LTC Private RallyPoint Member advises, check with the state military department. No idea what they'd have. I advised the 45th Enhanced Infantry Brigade in the early 2000s. They were good folks.

If this is for personal/family use, there is nothing to say that you can't write down your story for them and put it with what you do have. I kept an unofficial copy of the unit citation recommendation narrative from my deployment to Afghanistan. Would further recommend that if you do a shadow box that you have a diagram on the back that lets them know what the stuff is and on subsequent pages you can explain the story behind them. Slip it in a document protector and tape it to the back of the shadow box.

If this is for VA claims etc, I'd use your existing 214, an orders you have. If you have to prove the unit was there, suggest you look at the Gulf LINK which lists all units possibly exposed to a chemical downwind hazard. It's extensive and verified. So prove you were deployed, prove what unit you were in, and then GulfLnk verifies it.

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