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Records on the move to AFPC

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  • By Airman 1st Class Kali L. Gradishar
  • 92nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs
FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. --  Fairchild will soon make a significant move when all Unit Personnel Records Group, or hard-copy records, will be shipped to the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, since the Air Force decided to make all records available electronically.

"The records will be audited, boxed up and shipped to AFPC where they will be scanned into the system. The records here will be sent out in March and should be available by April," said Dennis Stanfield, 92nd Mission Support Group chief of personnel information and testing.

One of the most important parts of the paper-to-electronic records shift is the records office will not be available to handle an influx of customers requesting copies of their records during this time.

"Information will only be available for emergency services and absolutely essential items," Mr. Stanfield noted. "This is because removing the records once they're boxed will hinder operations and will cut down on the accuracy of the move. We ask for people's patience with the records move since it will be so difficult to pull records."

To cut back on the request of records during the move, the unit commander's support staffs have been working with the records office to ensure their Airmen were taken care of until the move was complete, he added.

The move of hard-copy records to the Automated Records Management System will make records more easily available to the Air Force and its Airmen, though senior Non-commissioned officer and officers should already have at least partial access in ARMS by clicking on the ARMS link on the AFPC secure Web site.

"This will provide more convenience for records access since the move will create a centralization of all military personnel records in an electronic format," said Mr. Stanfield. "So when copies of performance reports, evaluations or decoration citations are needed people won't have to physically go to the records office. They will just be able to pull up the information in the system and print."

Rather than contacting the records office, as they will be working to efficiently conduct the records move, please contact your unit commander's support staff for additional information.