CJM Military Certificates-no DD214 required

No DD214 Required

We do not require you to have your DD214 to get your CJM Certificate of Service. Over the years many of our veterans have at some point lost their DD214 and other military memorabilia through house fires, moving, etc. Some of our servicemen cannot replace them.
There was a fire in 1973 at the National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis, MO) that destroyed approximately 16-18 million Official Military Personnel Files.

However, you might want to get ahold of your DD214 to use as a good reference for your, or your loved ones, medals and awards. If you are preparing a gift for a loved one this document would help you "sneak around" and get the info. so you can make your gift a surprise.

Normally we would recommend you contact the National Personnel Records Center for a free copy, but there are many reports on the Net that the NPRC is taking many weeks to perform record retrievals, with a backlog of two hundred thousand (200,000) requests. At their stated receiving rate of 4,000 to 5,000 requests per day, you're talking a 40+ day backlog.

Therefore, to retrieve your records in a reasonable time frame we recommend that you contact a research company. There are two research companies we have found. I have heard there are more as well. We know of Lyon Research and Touchstone Research, which will retrieve your records within a week.

So that we can meet the needs of all of our veterans we do not require the DD214 to make a certificate. CJM Military Certificates are for display only, and are not intended to be used as a legal document in any way. Your DD214 can be used as a reference in finding out what medals, ribbons and badges to ask for on your CJM Certificate of Service.