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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 .
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
The National Archives building at College Park held its groundbreaking in 1989 and opened in 1994 on a parcel of campus donated by the University of Maryland, [1] mostly to alleviate space constraints at the aged National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. [2] [3] By that time, the original facility had become incapable of holding further numbers of records transferred in from various ...
July 29, 2024 at 2:29 PM. SEATTLE - Seattle Fleet Week returns this week and Sound Transit announced that all military personnel can ride free on Link light rail, Sounder commuter trains and ...
USS LST-21 unloads railway cars in Normandy in June 1944. American logistics played a key role in the success of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of northwest Europe during World War II. The campaign officially commenced on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and ended on 24 July, the day before the launch of Operation Cobra.
The numbers of military personnel listed include both support personnel (supplies, construction, and contracting) and actual combat personnel. For a typical country, the proportion of this total that comprises actual combat forces is about 26% [citation needed] (so, for every soldier there will be around three support personnel). This ...
American services and supply played a crucial part in the World War II Siegfried Line campaign, which ran from the end of the pursuit of the German armies from Normandy in mid-September 1944 until December 1944, when the American forces were engulfed by the German Ardennes offensive. In August 1944, the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight ...
The Official Military Personnel File ( OMPF ), known as a 201 File in the U.S. Army, is an Armed Forces administrative record containing information about a service member's history, such as: [ 1] Promotion Orders. Mobilization Orders. DA1059s – Service School Academic Evaluation Reports. MOS Orders. Awards and decorations.