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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3789938, member: 57463&quot;]The DD-214 is the general discharge papers and the 201 is the cumulative personnel record. There are others such as DD-4 and DD4/1 Enlistment / Reenlistment and no doubt many others. You can get the records for just about anyone from the US DoD. The huge national archive in St. Louis suffered a fire and million of records 1912-1960 were damaged and many lost forever.</p><p>(Read about it here:</p><p><a href="https://www.archives.gov/personnel-records-center/fire-1973" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.archives.gov/personnel-records-center/fire-1973" rel="nofollow">https://www.archives.gov/personnel-records-center/fire-1973</a></p><p>and here:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Center_fire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Center_fire" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Center_fire</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>My father served in Korea. I requested his records. It took a couple of queries. I also wrote to his state national guard. It was pretty interesting. I was working in a national guard office at the time and my colleagues explained the jargon and how to interpret it.</p><p><br /></p><p>In order to answer your question I went back into the box and read through some of the papers and found that Dad did get the Good Conduct medal (twice). So, thanks for asking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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