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
