MREC-09 · MILITARY RECORDS LIBRARY
Medical, Clinical, Injury & Disability Records
MREC-09: Medical evidence from baseline health through treatment, hospitalization, occupational exposure, injury, duty limitations, line-of-duty issues, disability evaluation, and later healthcare/benefit claims.
What this record can establish
Diagnoses and treatment; dates and facilities; reported symptoms; objective findings; limitations; medical-board evidence; treatment chronology and later medical opinions.
What it does not establish automatically
A treatment record may document what was reported without independently proving cause, duty status, legal responsibility, or service connection. A diagnosis is not itself a benefit decision.
Preservation package
Entrance and periodic exams; clinical/hospital records; imaging/labs; profiles; injury reports; LOD documents; MEB/PEB files; VA exams; release authorizations and record requests.
Minimum source metadata
- Stable source ID and record class
- Creator or issuing office
- Document date and covered period
- Subject identifiers
- Repository and exact locator
- Provenance or acquisition note
- Proposition supported and express limits
- Evidence-status code and derivative/OCR/transcription lineage
Evidence testing
- Identity: Is the record tied to the correct person, unit, platform, or event?
- Chronology: Separate document date, effective date, event date, and covered period.
- Institutional purpose: Understand why the record was created and what it was designed to record.
- Corroboration: Seek independent records; copies and derivatives from one source do not create independence.
Evidence status key: D1 direct primary; D2 corroborated primary; S1 authoritative secondary; S2 credible secondary; I inference; C conflict; U unverified; N negative research result.
Connected Life Record chapters
- MLR-08 — Medical, Injury & Disability
- MLR-11 — Separation & Transition
- MLR-12 — Retirement
- MLR-13 — Veteran Lifetime
- MLR-14 — Death
- MLR-15 — Survivors
Related navigation guides
Retrieval and authority status
This page defines the evidence family and preservation method. Repository-specific access rules, privacy limits, request forms, retention schedules, service/era differences, and governing authorities must be verified for the particular record before treating retrieval instructions as final. Start with current official repositories and the linked Navigation Guides.
