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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