Milsurp After Hours

Vern told me about this a couple or three years ago. Ran into the question at another site just now and thought I'd post it here.

The US government will give a former serviceman, or his next of kin, a replacement of his medals earned while in the service on a probable one time basis. You don't have to have actually lost the original ones. Nothing much to it, just fill out a form and wait.....wait several months. The govenament doesn't get in much of a hurry. But they do come through eventually.

http://www.archives.gov/veterans/milita ... edals.html

Thanks. Appreciate this. My father went in the Marines in 1936. He was one of the guards at Lakehurst after the Hindenberg crashed. My brother and I each have a piece of aluminum from the tail section that didn't burn. He finished that hitch and went into the Army and was at Hickam Field during the Pearl Harbor attack. I would love to get his medals. They were all lost in a house fire.

Got a friend who got his father-inlaws medals for his wife using this service recently. Some records of of a number of individuals were lost though because of a fire. Hope your dad's weren't in that batch.

If your dad was at Pearl Habor in the Army, do you know what outfit he was in at the time?

No, I don't. Wish I did.

Good chance it was some outfit of the 25th Division. By the way, the medals come engraved with the name of the person awarded on the back. Original medals, at least mine, weren't engraved although otherwise exactly the same as those that replace them.

They also added a "Good Conduct Medal" that I never knew I had coming, it wasn't listed on my 201. Was surprised since I once got an Article 15 for calling a 2nd Lt a stupid SOB to his face, he was pissed that I pointed out such an obvious truth.

Vern.

"...Was surprised since I once got an Article 15 for calling a 2nd Lt a stupid SOB to his face, he was pissed that I pointed out such an obvious truth. ..."

Vern,

Could it be that you were punished (What is/was an 'Article 15'?) for the sake of military discipline but it never went any further because those further up the chain ALSO thought the 2/Lt was a stupid SOB?

Tom.