[Mears]

What,exactly,is a DD-214?

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[Old Teufel Hunden]

"What,exactly,is a DD-214?"

It's your discharge from the Service paper. It gives a lot of information such as the term of enlistment the discharge paper covers, what service you were in, the character of your discharge (honorable, other than honorable, dishonorable) and lists your medals/ribbons which will tell the reader what you did (like the Vietnam Service medal)

[Old Teufel Hunden]

One other note about the DD-214, why it’s so important and talked of in this thread is that a fellow veteran can tell a lot about someone’s service by simply reading over the DD-214. Many times (not always) it can out a stolen valor person.