Veteran and Military Communities

The central objective of DCAS is to collect and maintain U.S. casualty information on warfighters who have fallen in global or regional conflicts involving the United States. This site is maintained by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).

Data about veterans are collected monthly in the Current Population Survey (CPS) are the source of the 2012 annual averages presented in this release.

Provides a list of total inductions for each major conflict in which the U.S. was involved in the 20th century, as well as the number of inductions per year of each conflict.

The National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics (NCVAS) supports planning, analysis, and decision-making activities through the collection, validation, analysis, and dissemination of key statistics on Veteran population and VA programs.

The U.S. Census Bureau collects veterans’ demographic, social and economic data on several surveys which are used for policy analysis, program planning and budgeting of veterans programs.

Users can request service and pension records of veterans dating back to the American Revolution. Records dated earlier than 1917 are stored in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. while those from 1917 to present are housed at the National Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis.

This site provides a searchable database of information pertaining to American prisoners in the Vietnam War. In addition, a series of documents that were obtained from the former Soviet Union have been translated and included on this site. These documents shed light on the treatment of American prisoners in World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the conflict in Southeast Asia.