National Archives clears pandemic-era backlog for vet records, seeks to digitize decades of paper

Summary: Veterans and their families should have an easier time accessing military service records, now that the National Archives and Records Administration has eliminated a pandemic-era backlog of requests. The agency announced Wednesday it finally cleared its backlog of veteran records requests. The backlog at NARA’s National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri peaked at more than 600,000 unprocessed requests at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic-era building occupancy limits led to the backlog, and constrained the agency’s ability to send employees back into the facility and access the mostly paper records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices