“...you don’t have a DD 214? Seriously? WTF?”
They didn’t give me one when I outprocessed. I’ve tried multiple times but it now has to go thru the National Archives, and they take my request, do nothing, then a few months later tell me my request has timed out. Spoke to a person on the phone last month. She said they had my records and admitted I had made multiple, valid written requests....but since they had all “timed out”, I’d need to submit a new request rather than her just sending me the damn thing!
So...I’ve contacted one of my senators and her office will resubmit my request with a POA from me to act on my behalf. I’m guessing the National Archives won’t let a request submitted by a Senator “time out” without doing anything.
It is a total screw up, both on the outprocessing office at DM years ago and on the part of the US government.
Your situation is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.