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How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the Military

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I have run the website Sgt. Mom's Place (recently partnered with Maingate.com) for approximately 4 years now and this book has been an excellent resource for me!! I constantly get requests to help someone find a lost friend or relative, others wanting the records for their father or relative from WWII, etc. I have used this book countless times to give these visitors the information needed to help them in their search. My thanks to the authors!! I will continue to buy the updated versions too so I can keep up to date on everything!

Now in its eighth edition, How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Ben in the Military, collaboratively written by Lt. Col. Richard S. Johnson and Debra Johnson Knox, is a direct, easy-to-use, "reader friendly", how-to-guide packed with tips, tricks, and techniques for finding anyone with an American military connection, whether they are active duty, reserve, or retired. From steps anyone can take to verify claims of a military background, to locating veterans for a reunion, How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Ben in the Military is packed with practical, useable information, directories, Internet sources, and much, much more. To put it simply but accurately, How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Ben in the Military is an excellent and useful resource.

Find people you served with, find friends, fathers, etc. This book guides you step-by-step in locating just about anyone who has any sort of military connection. Now in 7th edition. Foreword by William Westmorelan

This is quite complete as a tool for finding service friends, but you must have some vital information (such as Social Security numbers or military ID numbers, etc.) for a search to be successful. It's not enough to know where someone was stationed (an Air Force base, for example) in what years. Maybe that was too much to expect.

I have not had enough time to thoroughly pursue the recommendations in this book. Additionally, I doubt it will solve my problem which whould have been evident to me in the title. I am not looking for someone, but looking for informtion about someone. I am looking for the troop my father fought with during the war so if anyhone has any informtion to help me with this search I would be grateful.

This book has been a great help in assisting me to locate former Vietnam Vieterans that I served with. It was very heartfelt to speak to them and know they were doing alright in life.

I decided to try to contact shipmates from the '60's with whom I served aboard an aircraft carrier. In many cases, all I had was last name and initials. I bought this book hoping it would provide something that didn't come up during on-line searches, but alas, not much new in this book that helped me. It did have a few good tips but by and large missed the mark I was hoping for. It is well written and well organized. Probably more useful for folks in the "modern" era i.e. 80's and on.

This book is a great place to start most of your searchs of veterans alive and dead.Easy to follow,easy to use,best of all the addresses they have for you to write to.I think I like the way they break the book down best.
NOTE: still hard to get information on POW/MIA's.

Book is no help unless you have a lot of information on person you are trying to find. I had name, year of birth, where born, branch of service, year of enlistment, etc, and was unable to find if person(s) were deceased or not using info in this book.