MLR-06 · MILITARY LIFE RECORD
Career, Assignments & Deployment
MLR-06: Specialty, rank, promotions, duty stations, units, commands, deployments, evaluations, awards, and operational context.
Controlling research question
Connect the individual to the unit, place, duty, and event with dated personal evidence rather than unit history alone.
Core records to preserve
Assignment and promotion orders; evaluations; unit rosters; deployment orders; travel records; logs; award recommendations and orders.
Chronology and evidence testing
- Record the event date separately from the date a document was created.
- Identify the person, component, unit, duty status, location, and issuing office where they matter.
- Separate a record’s express statement from inference, family recollection, or a later summary.
- Preserve conflicts rather than silently harmonizing them; record negative searches by repository, query, dates, and coverage.
Key evidence pathways
- Personnel Files & OMPF
- Orders, Assignments & Travel
- Unit Records & Rosters
- Operational Logs
- Flight & Mission Records
- Awards & Citations
Related navigation guides
- Deployment Mobilization Demobilization
- Guard Reserve Status Points Benefits
- Evaluations Promotions Adverse Administrative Records
- Awards Decorations Recognition Corrections
Authority and effective-date discipline
This Life Record chapter organizes chronology and evidence. It does not by itself state current eligibility, entitlement, deadline, or legal effect. For a rule-dependent question, identify the governing statute, regulation, departmental instruction, program guidance, or decision effective on the relevant date and use the linked Navigation Guide for the current pathway.
Preservation standard
Keep the best available source copy unchanged. Store edited, OCR, transcription, annotation, or working versions separately. Record creator, date/covered period, repository, exact locator, provenance, proposition supported, express limitations, and derivative lineage.
