From healthcare to home loans, education to employment, nearly every veteran benefit starts with one document: Your DD214. Your military discharge papers are officially known as DD Form 214, or ...

ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Rock Island, Ill. -- From time to time I am asked by commanders, Non-Commissioned Officers, Soldiers, and others entitled to legal assistance, about DD Form 214 and the ...

There could also be major changes to the information included on the form, as well as to the way its gathered, if DoD follows the recommendations of a recent Rand Corporation study on the effort ...

DD Form 214 or DD-214 is issued upon a servicemember’s retirement, separation, or discharge from active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces, according to the DMVA.

If H.R.7041 is passed, it will require the military to issue a new DD-214 (or DD-214-1) at various checkpoints in a service member’s career, according to an online summary of the bill.

Phil Huber, the Angelina County veterans’ services officer, wants to spread the word to all veterans to make sure they know where their DD-214 forms are. Defense Department Form 214 (The Certificate ...

For veterans who are missing their DD 214, they can fill out the SF-180 form and mail it to the appropriate office to make a request for the DD 214. Or the veteran can request the form online.