In a message dated 5/27/2007 6:31:53 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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does  anyone know if any of the later service records are included at  all?



The sad tale of the Viet Nam service records is a cautionary tale for  
computers. There were two enormous computers created in the 1960s to handle Viet  
Nam service records; one in the U.S. and one in Saigon. Saigon fell to North  
Viet Nam and that computer was captured or scuttled. The one in the U.S.  had 
been modified so many times to upgrade the hard and software that the tons  of 
records saved during the fall of Saigon could not be read on the U.S.  
computer. Those records are sitting gathering dust in a warehouse. Fortunately,  
service people had their own file they personally took out of Viet Nam and  copies 
of some of that material followed them through the rest of their career.  It 
is that paltry amount of records that survive today.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.



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