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The National Personnel Records Center fire was a catastrophic fire at the records building in St. Louis that burned for more than four days in July 1973 and ultimately destroyed 16 to 18 million Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF). [12]
The National Personnel Records Center fire of 1973, [1] also known as the 1973 National Archives fire, was a fire that occurred at the Military Personnel Records Center (MPRC) in the St. Louis suburb of Overland, Missouri, from July 12–16, 1973. The fire destroyed some 16 million to 18 million official U.S. military personnel records.
The National Personnel Records Center(s) (NPRC) is an agency of the National Archives and Records Administration, created in 1966.It is part of the United States National Archives federal records center system and is divided into two large Federal Records Centers located in St. Louis, Missouri, and Valmeyer, Illinois.
The Demobilized Personnel Records Center (DPRC) was an installation of the United States Army which operated in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1945 to 1956.The facility was housed in the former Goodfellow ordnance plant in St. Louis [1] and became the central repository for all service records of discharged (but originally not retired) service members of the United States Army.
HRC was established in 2003 from the merger of the United States Total Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM) in Alexandria, Virginia and the United States Army Reserve Personnel Command (AR-PERSCOM) in St. Louis, Missouri. PERSCOM and AR-PERSCOM were inactivated 1 October 2003.
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"Case Reference Guide for the authorization of military awards and decorations", Military Personnel Records Center; St. Louis, Missouri; SECNAVINST 1650.1H (Navy Awards Manual) AFI 36-2803 (Air Force Awards and Decorations Program) AR 670-1 Wear and Appearance of Army Uniforms and Insignia
As the St. Louis mayor pushes legislation that would prohibit “military-grade weapons” on city streets and make it a crime for “insurrectionists” and those convicted of hate crimes to ...