This applies ONLY to generally older records (about pre-1995, but varies with service branch) held at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St. Louis – more recent separations with records at digital facilities are unaffected by a prior request. If you have come to our site out of frustration because you ordered your DD214 from the government weeks or even months ago and you still haven’t received it, PLEASE DO NOT try to order it from us now. You have only one chart. Once the government receives your order, at some stage they will remove your chart from the shelf. Your chart then becomes inaccessible to anyone else until its return – which could be additional weeks later. In other words, once you’ve made your decision to acquire your DD214 from the government, you will most likely not be able to later change your mind and expedite the order through us – unless you want to gamble that we can still get to your chart before the government. If you’d like to take the risk, fine. However, even only a day or two’s prior submission may cause the record to be pulled from NPRC’s shelves – then it will sit on some clerk’s desk until processed – making it unavailable to us until its return to the shelf.