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Vietnam Veteran Database Up For Sale And Is Set to Close Up At End Of Year!


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So I just bought more time this morning and talked to the lady in South Carolina who runs it by phone to expedite the withdrawing of my funds to pay for the time, she informs me it's closing up in December, the sites (there are a few others besides the Viet Vet Data Base) will no longer be available, but is up for sale, she said she shopped around but no one was interested, she said genealogy sites were the ones contacted, and has a notation on the home page for the interest of prospective buyers .

 

I got the idea of telling her that I would post this info here on this site, a Militaria/Military History Forum, as their just might be individuals interested. I told her about the forum, and that it's a site used by a lot of members interested in this time period, and might not want to lose this site. I of course am a poor Khaki Church mouse, so this would be way out of my financial purview, but I did tell her I would open up a specific topic for her.

 

The Home Page.

 

http://www.militaryusa.com/index.shtml

 

 

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Bummer....how much coin are we talking here?...not that i could afford it but just curious....mike

That my friend wasn't devolved to me, she said to have any interested parties contact her via her E-Mail that on the home page.

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That my friend wasn't devolved to me, she said to have any interested parties contact her via her E-Mail that on the home page.

I think that word will be Divulged dorango, yes, what did I say? devolved! :lol:

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The subscription rates seems kinda high - maybe dropping the fees would entice more customers.

I hope that the information in the databases isn't lost!

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The subscription rates seems kinda high - maybe dropping the fees would entice more customers.

I hope that the information in the databases isn't lost!

It's not that at all, they just don't want to run it anymore.

 

This from the Home Page.

 

 

Military Information Enterprises, Inc. began operations in 1987 with the main goal of helping veterans reunite. Founder, Lt. Col. Richard S. Johnson (Ret) helped thousands of veterans with his popular resource guide How to Locate Anyone Who is or Has Been in the Military. His vision continued when he started MilitaryUSA.com offering over 20 Million military/veterans records and the Internet's only Vietnam, Vietnam-Era, Retired Military and Gulf War databases.

After 25 years in business we have decided to retire. MilitaryUSA.com will be closing the website at the end of 2015.

If you currently have a one-year membership, it will continue until expiration date. New one-year registrations will end December 31, 2015. We are still accepting one-month memberships to all databases.

MIE is extremely grateful for the support throughout the years.

If you have any questions or if your business or organization would like to acquire any of our databases please contact [email protected]

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I had emailed the owners a couple of weeks ago regarding the possibility of maybe purchasing/licensing the Vietnam database, but they said they were only interested in licensing to a large company (I am guessing something like Ancestry.com). Hopefully, they will get a deal worked out with somebody.

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I had emailed the owners a couple of weeks ago regarding the possibility of maybe purchasing/licensing the Vietnam database, but they said they were only interested in licensing to a large company (I am guessing something like Ancestry.com). Hopefully, they will get a deal worked out with somebody.

They better hurry with somebody, she did say those type of sites were so far NOT interested, and this was back a couple of months or so when I first talked to her, strange, I did say I would post here with the hope some member, or even the forum themselves might be interested.

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I had emailed the owners a couple of weeks ago regarding the possibility of maybe purchasing/licensing the Vietnam database, but they said they were only interested in licensing to a large company (I am guessing something like Ancestry.com). Hopefully, they will get a deal worked out with somebody.

 

Sounds like they'd rather close it if they couldn't make a bundle selling it: all or nothing. Shame...

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Sounds like they'd rather close it if they couldn't make a bundle selling it: all or nothing. Shame...

It also seemed like a hassle for the lady, as it seemed it was strictly very much a side effort, and that's OK. It seemed a complicated mode of purchase, out moded? purchases had to individually answered and dealt with, with passwords user names sent via email, sometimes taken a couple or more days for funds to be withdrawn, not automated, you know like a say paypal quick deal. But anyway, Not knowing a lot about sites cause I only got a PC in 2011, it seemed to be an old fashion site which thrown all together might of lent to headaches?

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I wonder where they got the records. Unless they scanned records from NARA or something, you'd think the information is still available somewhere.

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The value is all in the database: if that's good it's not a real big deal to put a nice front end on it and setup a pay-to-use system. If they have in fact digitized some veteran's records that are not on ancestry.com, that would seem a big deal unless the asking price was way too high even for ancestry, or the database has a lot of errors and/or is very incomplete.

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I wonder where they got the records. Unless they scanned records from NARA or something, you'd think the information is still available somewhere.

I recall she said the VA.

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Has any group bought the database(s) yet? I can't believe some group is not interested (unless they are building their own).

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Has any group bought the database(s) yet? I can't believe some group is not interested (unless they are building their own).

Not to my knowledge.

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Hello. I found this because I am looking for a Vietnam era vet. Would someone with a subscription try the Wayback machine? Just type Wayback in your browser, then in the search area type the URL for this site: http://www.militaryusa.com/index.shtml

 

The link may no longer work, but who knows. Thanks Bill

This will not work bill, as this was a paysite, once payment was withdrawn then you chose your username you wanted and a password was given out for you, then you can view site.

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Has there been any further movement on the sale of the Viet Vet or Desert Storm database? I'm a little surprised that FOLD 3 has either purchased it or developed an equivalent.

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Was there more material on that database than on the Coffelt Database? That's about the best out there for Vietnam, at least for casualties.

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Was there more material on that database than on the Coffelt Database? That's about the best out there for Vietnam, at least for casualties.

Hi Dave,

 

Yes, although not 100% complete, the Vietnam database had the names of the service men and women who served in Vietnam. It provided their name, MOS, branch of service and other similar information. Here is an example of the data that was posted in another thread by Patches:

 

Vietnam Veterans Database

 

Name: DANT RICHARD L

 

Branch: ARMY

 

Rate: E04 Rank: CORPORAL OR SPECIALIST

 

MOS: 11B

 

MOS Title: Infantryman

 

Entered:

 

Discharged: 700803

 

Service Number:

 

State: VIRGINIA

 

Race: CAUCASIAN

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The website was MilitaryUSA.com and the following was their description of the database:

 

Vietnam Veteran

 

The Vietnam Veterans database contains 2,745,687 records of military personnel who served in the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps or Navy in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. This file does NOT include any Coast Guard personnel. It is NOT a complete list of those who served in Vietnam and can't be used to verify service.

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