As honorable and noble as your service to your fellow Americans was then is your service and efforts in reclaiming and preserving your country now; and for the same reasons.
I believe what we are doing with this submission is to seek confirmation that our duty as service members is ended ensuring the separation of your living being from the MUNICIPAL PERSON and service to which you answered while enlisted or commissioned.
Form Section 19 reads: …for the purpose of processing my application for discharge under Public Law 95-202. (which might make for interesting reading.)
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Before you Start:
If opened on a computer, the freely available Adobe Reader program or Google’s Docs service can allow you to open the doc, type into the blanks, save your work, and print it when you’re done.
Purpose: (from Privacy Act Statement)
“To assist the Secretaries of the Armed Forces in determining if applicant was member of a group which has been found to have performed active military service, and, after an affirmative finding as to the applicant, to assist the Secretary of an Armed Force in issuing an appropriate certificate of service.”
For our purposes as “foreign sovereigns” and “state nationals” I believe we are seeking confirmation that our service was ended and we have no further responsibility to the branch of service to which we were attached. (confirm?)
DD form 2168
1. Block 1a and 1b are the names of the military service member in question, including maiden names and aliases known (officially, as a matter of record) at the time of service.
2. The service member’s Social Security Number (SSN) at the time of service.
3. The service member’s date of birth; in the format specified: YYYYMMDD or 19601225 for December 25, 1960.
4a-e: Present street address of the requester; where would they send correspondence? Don’t miss the county specification.
5. Of the military service groups listed on the back of the form, with which service did member serve?
6. The identification number may be the ID# on orders, on an identification card, or can simply be the service member’s SSN.
7. What was the highest rank the service member attained. Might be found on final orders or other papers.
8. Highest pay grade attained, related to rank. Enlisted men are ranked E1-9, officers O1-9 (to my knowledge)
9a-b is the military processing installation where you were inducted. Your initial orders should list this duty station. Example “MEPS CLEVELAND OHIO” (Military Enlistment Processing Station?)
1. section 10a Are the dates of service in format YYYYMMDD as 19601225 for December 25, 1960. 10b would be the branch of service as listed on the reverse of the form.
2. section 11a-e is your home address at the time of your enlistment or beginning of service. Don’t miss the specification for county.
3. section 12 would be your pay-grade or rank at the time of entry. Check info on initial orders if available.
4. section 13 is the Military installation where service member was directed to report. Check info on initial orders if available.
5. section 14 would be the service members job title or MOS (military occupational specialty). Check info on initial orders if available.
6. section 15 would be a list of decorations, medals, badges, commendations, and campaign ribbons. Check info on paperwork issued with the award. Some service members might need to address a separate sheet, if so, list “see attachment” in this block, and attach a sheet listing the information.
1. section 16a-e are the terms of separation from service which might be: a:honorable discharge, b:end of enlistment, c:station or base from which the service member separated that last day, d:the service command affiliation (US Army, USMC, USAF, US Navy…) e:date of final service
2. This section COULD BE filled out by those surviving a service member killed while in service, so “relation to applicant” is important. For our purposes this is likely filled out by the service member themselves; I checked f: other and specified myself as “applicant“
3. section 18a is the name (Last, First, Middle) of the person filling out the form and the b. SSN.
4. section 18c-d Sign (cursive signature that the defacto folks would expect) and date the form.
5. section 18e is the contact information for the person filling out the form with mailing address and phone number.
6. section 19a-b Sign and date the form. (you might note the statement next to 19…)
- To “submit an original copy only” means they want a wet-ink signature on the document. Rather than leave any item blank, they prefer you write “NONE”, indicating you have no information. Do your best to scan, copy and attach documents to the sheet that support much information listed on side 1 as possible.
- S/E (self-explanatory)
- Pay special attention to this list, include copies of whatever you might have that supports your claim.
- S/E
- S/E
- Note the mailing address to which you will forward this form along with your documentation.
Recommendations:
Documents carry clout when they are “bound”. This means either “glued, riveted, or sewn” together so that pages cannot separate. A staple alone is not sufficient. Binding can be simply achieved with a staple that has a drop of super glue applied to the staple-hole on both the front and back side. The glue should follow the staple through attaching it to all if not most of the pages, and will certainly fix the top and bottom pages.
Consider certified mail ($3.60) with an electronic receipt or registered mail ($12.90) to track that the document was delivered to it’s intended destination. For certified mail you can request a post-mark on your certified receipt which bears your recording of the address to which it was sent. An electronic confirmation of delivery is also available at no extra charge. A physical receipt returned to you requires form 3811 Domestic Return Receipt.
The certified label has three parts with a matching serial number on each. The first on the far left can be removed and the thin adhesive strip adhered to your document before sealing the envelope (nice clout for documentation). The second from left is on the adhesive metered label that is intended for your envelope, the third is on your receipt.
It’s a good idea to ask for a postmark (red round stamp) when you pay the postal clerk for the postage and certified mail fees.
