On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 07:21:55 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 3/24/2018 1:47 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:47:56 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:


11:36 PMBill
Tim wrote:
I absently left Wayne and Bill out of the headers list of DD214
recipients. My apologies gentlemen...


I did not get a DD214. I was Air Force and they use a different number.
Was looking for the DD214 when I went to social Security Administration
office.

....

Didn’t know that, Bill. I thought all branches were under DoD with Dd214 sign out. Except Greg would have been under the Dept if the Treasury. Don’t know about coast guard...

It was the department of transportation when I got out and DHS now but
they still used the regular DoD forms. I just went through this with
the VA and I bet Bill had a DD214 along the way somewhere but he is
thinking about his actual discharge form. (another document)
I never actually had my DD214 until I asked for it. I may have seen it
when I was released from active duty but if they gave it to me I
probably did not get off the base with it.
Both my release from active duty and my actual discharge were pretty
chaotic days. Lots of running from here to there and signing papers.
They did not seem to have a central location for any of it. The
release from active was between the ship and an admin building on the
base. The discharge was running around CG base Yorktown (Va)
I found out if I hadn't done any of that they would have just mailed
me a package and wanted my ID card back with the signed forms but
since I was already there, it wanted to get it done. It was a good
thing because I ran into my old Chief and got to go shoot.



You should have received an original DD-214 when you were discharged
assuming you were discharged after 1950 and were not a reservist who was
never called up for active duty.

It would have been one of eight "originals" and it *is* the actual
discharge or separation from service document.

Many of us loose track of it over the years. I did and had to contact
the DOD archives to get replacement copies.




It is quite possible I had it when I left the admin office but I don't
think it made it off the ship ... or maybe it was on the table at the
bar in downtown Norfolk where the guys were buying me a goodbye beer.
Getting on the bus back to DC was pretty fuzzy. I just remember
standing on the corner of 11th and New York Avenue calling for someone
to pick me up.