From healthcare to home loans, education to employment, nearly every veteran benefit starts with one document: Your DD214. Your military discharge papers are officially known as DD Form 214, or just ...

Veterans are waiting months to get copies of military service records that prove when they served so they can prove their eligibility for pension, mortgages and other compensation. The backlog for ...

John Hall was a private in the 2nd New York Regiment of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. At some point during the summer of 1783, he received this sheet of paper: A ye olde DD-214.