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Veterans and their families should have an easier time accessing military service records, now that the National Archives and Records Administration has eliminated a pandemic-era backlog of requests.\nThe agency announced Wednesday it finally cleared its backlog of veteran records requests.\nThe backlog at NARA\u2019s National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri peaked at more than 600,000 unprocessed requests at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.\nPandemic-era building occupancy limits led to the backlog, and constrained the agency\u2019s ability to send employees back into the facility and access the mostly paper records.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices