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Any unclassified sources available as I research my father's role serving the US on a mission in Cuba? Possibly after Cuban Missile Crisis through 1963 before JFK's assassination. He was a member of 3d Transportation (Ft. Eustis, VA) Beach Reconna

Cara Rogers

He mentioned a mission to recover a laser-guided tank system in USSR via landing in Czechoslavakia (said Iron Curtain was a joke), also said he had Castro in his sites but never knew why the mission was called off.  This later mission could possibly have been a part of the Cuban Missile Crisis unofficially I guess, because he wasn't yet a member of BRATs, but seems like maybe it would've been in 1963 and before Kennedy's death since he said everything they did was for him.

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    Thank you for posting your request on History Hub.

    You may wish to request your father's personnel records.  Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) and medical records from the period are located at the National Personnel Records Center.  A GSA Standard Form 180 to request records is available at https://www.archives.gov/files/research/order/standard-form-180.pdf.  You should complete it and mail it to the National Personnel Records Center, (Military Personnel Records), 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO  63138-1002.  You also may apply online at https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/.  Certain information in the records is not available to the general public without the written consent of the veteran or next of kin.

    Operational records of units' activities may be in our custody.  Please be aware that they rarely include names of individuals.  If you can identify specific units with branch of service and periods of interest, or if you have additional questions for the staff at Archives II, please email us at archives2reference@nara.gov so that we can assist you further.  We also invite you to continue the conversation with community members on History Hub.

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    Thank you for posting your request on History Hub.

    You may wish to request your father's personnel records.  Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) and medical records from the period are located at the National Personnel Records Center.  A GSA Standard Form 180 to request records is available at https://www.archives.gov/files/research/order/standard-form-180.pdf.  You should complete it and mail it to the National Personnel Records Center, (Military Personnel Records), 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO  63138-1002.  You also may apply online at https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/.  Certain information in the records is not available to the general public without the written consent of the veteran or next of kin.

    Operational records of units' activities may be in our custody.  Please be aware that they rarely include names of individuals.  If you can identify specific units with branch of service and periods of interest, or if you have additional questions for the staff at Archives II, please email us at archives2reference@nara.gov so that we can assist you further.  We also invite you to continue the conversation with community members on History Hub.

    We hope that this information assists you with your research.

    Sincerely,

    Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR)
    [RR2RR-23-65927-MAG]

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