National Personnel Records Center
The National Personnel Records Center is an agency of the National Archives and Records Administration and is divided into two large Federal Records Centers located in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC-MPR) is the repository of over fifty six million military personnel, health, and medical records of discharged and deceased veterans of all services during the 20th century. NPRC (MPR) also stores over thirty nine million auxiliary military records to include casualty indexes, unit reports, some military pay records, and the medical treatment records of retirees from all services, as well as records for dependents and other persons treated at naval medical facilities.
The Civilian Personnel Records Center (NPRC-CPR) houses the Official Personnel Folders (OPF) and Employee Medical Folders (EMF) of separated Federal civilian employees. CPR also houses personnel documents that date back to the mid-nineteenth century, although the bulk of the collection covers the period from 1900 to present. The medical records of military family members treated at Army, Air Force and Coast Guard medical facilities are also stored here.
The 1973 National Archives Fire devasted the entire sixth floor of the Military Personnel Records Center and effectively destroyed over 18 million military service records. Since that time, major reconstruction efforts have restored and rebuilt millions of military service records using alternate records obtained from other state and federal agencies.
The current director of the National Personnel Records Center, as of June 2004, is retired U.S. Coast Guard Captain, Ronald Hindman. The Military Personnel Records Center is located on Page Avenue, in Overland, Missouri, while the Civilian Personnel Records Center is located on Winnebago Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.
The headquarters of the U.S. Army Human Resource Command is currently located on the same lot as the Military Personnel Records Center in Overland. The two buildings are physically connected by large access hallways.
