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"Where do they store the unit history files?

Does this mean all the after action reports would be there?

Like the Rassmann incident?"

every unit is required to keep certain types of documents for the unit history files; don't ask me exactly which ones

When military history is written later -- like the big histories about WW II -- they use these unit history files.

Now if you are a unit in the chaos of war and all your officers and NCOs got wiped out, and there is no one to file the AAR -- you might get underrepresented in the official history.

So,it is only as good as the people recording the information at the time and sending it up the chain.

I also don't know where they are stored. Some GSA warehouse somewhere, probably. To the best of my knowledge, it would be called the Unit History File of such-such unit.

It would take time to get another FOI processed; but that would not be necessary because the Swifties presumably have the copy of their FOI and the copy of the DoD sending it to them, so there is a chain of custody and the sure knowledge that it COULD be compared again to the original, so one would be a HUGE CRIMINAL fool trying to mess with it.

Now with a specific action, such as rescuing Rassmann (if I am getting the right event -- I haven't been following all the Kerry stuff) -- yes, it would be there too if an AAR was written on it and the unit saved it.

They prob. got an FOI for the whole unit file for a certain date range, would be my guess; so if it is there, they (SVs)would have it.