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Military Personnel Records Center. Coordinates: 38.7736°N 90.2307°W. The Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC-MPR) is a branch of the National Personnel Records Center and is the repository of over 56 million military personnel records and medical records pertaining to retired, discharged, and deceased veterans of the U.S. armed forces .
The Korea Defense Service Medal is retroactive to the end of the Korean War and is granted to any service performed after July 28, 1954. The National Personnel Records Center is responsible for verifying entitlement of the KDSM to discharged members of the military who served in South Korea prior to the creation of the KDSM.
Military Personnel Records Center. MPRC former location in Overland, Missouri, 1955–2012. The Military Personnel Records Center houses U.S. Armed Forces military service records dating from the late 1800s to the early 2000s. In 1956, records were moved into the MPRC's new building at 9700 Page Avenue in Overland, Missouri.
A Lieutenant staffing a guard post. Guard posts in South Korea are located on the front-line between North and South Korea at the DMZ (비무장지대). As they are located in the most dangerous area, they have special features that are different from the usual guard post. They consist of a bunker -type structure and few personnel.
The United States Forces Korea (USFK) is a sub-unified command of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). USFK was initially established in 1957, and encompasses U.S. combat-ready fighting forces and components under the ROK/US Combined Forces Command (CFC) – a supreme command for all of the South Korean and U.S. ground, air, sea and special operations component commands.
Supplementary service (Korean: 보충역; Hanja: 補充役; RR: Bochungyeok) is a category of military service in South Korea.Article 5 Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 3 of the ROK Military service act classifies supplementary service as "Persons found to be capable of serving on active duty as a result of a draft physical examination, but not determined as those subject to enlistment in the ...
v. t. e. Conscription in South Korea has existed since 1957 and requires male citizens between the ages of 18 and 35 to perform compulsory military service. [ 1][ 2] Women are not required to perform military service, but they may voluntarily join the military. [ 3] South Korean soldiers in training.
The entire range of United States service numbers extends from 1 to 99,999,999 with the United States Army and Air Force the only services to use numbers higher than ten million. A special range of numbers from one to seven thousand (1–7000) was also used by the United States Air Force Academy for assignment only to cadets and was not ...