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    VIERS Military History Service

    Metadata Updated: April 25, 2021

    The VIERS Military History service provides Veteran military history information that is consolidated across multiple data sources. This consolidated data is provided as part of the VRM initiative to improve the speed, accuracy and efficiency with which information is exchanged between Veterans and VA. This information is exposed to the VIERS Consumers via a SOAP based web service. It queries the VA/DoD Identity Repository (VADIR) and Corporate Database (CorpDB) repositories to retrieves electronic copies of military service information including periods of service, periods of captivity, and military pay. The VRM VIERS Military History Service also provides the capability to update the VA data repositories with unverified periods of service and unverified periods of captivity. Service provides a view of all military history to date(historical, current, retirement, Line of Duty/WII) for a partiular person such as branch, entry dates, separation dates, discharge characters. Provide definitive view of Veterans Military Service Information- Read access to veteran military service information (electronic DD-214/215)- Current member DoD affiliation status and information (Active duty, Guard/Reserve, Retired, Dependent)- DoD Eligibility and Entitlement (Insurance, Education)- DFAS Military Payments (severance, separation, retirement)- Supports submission by veterans of supplemental evidence of service (Vietnam Era)- Medals, awards

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    Non-public: This dataset is not for public access or use. Specific details are provided below. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 25, 2021

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 25, 2021
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-ORCH-14
    Data First Published 2017-11-17
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-05-15
    Rights Protected by Privacy Act and/or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
    Public Access Level non-public
    Bureau Code 029:40
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 5da45e19-0c43-46f4-afd5-89d75a6cfe68
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.data.va.gov/d/key6-qq4a
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4ebf9f0b5f9e5ec25984928dfc9c495f5442fac9
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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