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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 3804185" data-attributes="member: 45785">My DD214 mentions not one single word about the other two career fields I was in before I went into SATCOM. 24 years & 7 days in service, call it two years for 6 weeks of Basic, 9 weeks of tech school #1, and about 16 months as a F-111D aircraft mechanic. Just about exactly 10 years as a photographer, and the last 12 years & 5 months were actually in SATCOM. Air Force, not Army, but I enlisted during the war in Vietnam, and retired late in 1997. Most of my records were on paper, some of which I got back when I retired, but not all of them made it into the computers. They had a fire in the NPRC records storage area about 3 months before I enlisted, so I really can't see any excuse for that. I can readily believe that paper records never made it there, however, and for folks who were in on the early part of the Vietnam war, it could have been true. <a href="https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=39667" target="_blank">Military Records and “the Records Fire”</a> Bill</blockquote>