My Experience with Military Intelligence Was Over 50 Years Ago,

[MineralMan]

14. I've never needed anything but my DD-214.

If the records are flagged, probably you will never be able to get them. I was a Russian linguist, too, in the USAF. As you say, that information is on the DD-214. However there's no information about where I was stationed on there. There is a note about a foreign travel restriction on it, though. That expired long ago, though, so I never have paid any attention to it, and didn't travel before it expired.

The missions, in general, of the places we were all stationed has been declassified, but not the specifics. There are a couple of books out there that are more or less accurate about what we were all up to, but they're general, as well.

For myself, I know that most people I know would be bored to tears with details of what I was doing, so nothing is lost by not saying much about it. I tell people that I was a Russian linguist stationed at a small, remote USAF base on the Black Sea coast in Turkey. Clever people can pretty much guess why I was there, and none of that information is classified. But, that's where it stops.

I'm sure hearing about some familiar places these days, though.