I’m looking for my father military record HC Akins he was at Sergeant in the Korean war.Army

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That is really all I know he would not talk about it and I&rsquo;m not sure if he served in the Vietnam war I think he did and I don&rsquo;t know how to go about getting records on him

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Marlar 
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 Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) are in the custody of NARA's National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO. Below is a GSA Standard Form 180 which you should complete and mail to NARA's National Personnel Records Center, (Military Personnel Records), 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138-1002. Or you may apply online at http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/ . 
 LINK TO SF-180: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/order/standard-form-180.pdf 
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