1. Branch	Status	Date	Record Location
   Army	Discharged, retired, or separated from any component	10/16/1992 to 12/31/2013	Department of VA, Records Management Center
   		on or after 01/01/2014	AMEDD Record Processing Center
   Navy	Discharged, retired, or separated from any component	01/31/1994 to 12/31/2013	Department of VA, Records Management Center
   		on or after 01/01/2014	BUMED Navy Medicine Records Activity
   Air Force	Discharged, retired, or separated from any component	05/01/1994 to 12/31/2013	Department of VA, Records Management Center
   		on or after 01/01/2014	AF STR Processing Center
   	Discharged or retired from Reserves or National Guard	06/01/1994 to 12/31/2013	Department of VA, Records Management Center
   		on or after 01/01/2014	AF STR Processing Center
   Marine Corps	Discharged, retired, or separated from any component	05/01/1994 to 12/31/2013	Department of VA, Records Management Center
   		on or after 01/01/2014	BUMED Navy Medicine Records Activity
   Coast Guard	Discharged, retired, or separated from Active Duty - Reservists with 90 days active duty for training	04/01/1998 to 09/30/2014	Department of VA, Records Management Center

2. Military Service Department unit histories and military operations:
    

• U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency 
  600 Chenault Circle
  Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6424
  
  AFHRA.news@us.af.mil

• U.S. Naval History & Heritage Command 
  Washington Navy Yard, Bldg 57 (3rd Floor)
  Washington, DC 20374
  
  Telephone: (202) 433-3224
   
• U.S. Marine Corps History Division 
  3078 Upshur Avenue
  Quantico, Virginia 22134
  
  Telephone: (703) 432-4877
   
• U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office 
  Commandant (CG-09224)
  U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters
  2100 Second Street SW
  Washington, D.C. 20593
   
• National Archives and Records Administration
  Modern Military Records - NWCTM
  8601 Adelphi Road
  College Park, MD 20740-6001
  
  Telephone: 202-357-5000
  Customer Service Center Telephone: 1-866-272-6272

Records not at NPRC

State Militia Records

The National Archives does not hold state militia records:

For these records, you will need to contact the appropriate State Archives.

See Records Location Table for listings and locations of military personnel and health records.

1. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) records: For further information call the VA Toll Free number 1-800-827-1000.
    
2. Pay records: If available at all, these would be at the various Department of Defense Finance Centers.
    
3. Records of veterans who have been separated from active service but have reserve status, either active or inactive: Contact the Reserve Component of the appropriate branch of service.
    
4. Older military personnel records, generally prior to WWI depending on the service branch are on file at the National Archives and Records Administration, Old Military and Civil Records Branch (NWCTB), Washington, DC 20408. See Requesting Copies of Older Military Service Records for more information.
    
5. Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF) of veterans who have been discharged, retired or who have died in service since January 1, 1995 (Navy), January 1, 1999 (Marine Corps) and October 1, 2004 (Air Force): Contact the Personnel Center or Headquarters of the appropriate branch of service. The Army, since October 1, 2002, has also ceased retiring OMPFs of former service members to the NPRC; however, the NPRC has access to those records and will service your requests. See Records Location Table for complete details.
    
6. Records of members currently in the National Guard: Contact the Adjutant General's office of the appropriate state. The National Guard Bureau  website contains additional information.
    
7. Records of former National Guard members who were not called into active federal service: Contact the Adjutant General of the state in which the member served.
    
8. Recent active duty Health Records: Formerly, when a member was released, discharged or retired from active duty, the military services retired the health record to the NPRC with the personnel record portion (note: the Department of the Navy retired its health and personnel records to the NPRC separately until the late 1980s).
   
   However, in the 1990s, the military services discontinued the practice of filing health records with the personnel record portion. In 1992, the Army began retiring most of its former members' health records to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Over the next six years, the other services followed suit - Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps in 1994 and Coast Guard in 1998 (see Records Location Table for a listing of personnel and health record holdings and locations). In 2014, the military services discontinued the practice of retiring the records to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In order to determine where a medical record is located, please see the chart below: https://www.archives.gov/veterans