---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 212.5"
title: "20"
number: "212.5"
heading: "Verification of military service."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/212.5"
---

# §212.5. Verification of military service.


Military service may be verified by the following proof:

- (a) The original certificate of discharge or release to inactive duty from a branch of the armed forces that shows the beginning and ending dates of the individual's active military service; or a certified copy of the original certificate made by the Federal, State, county or municipal agency or department in which the original certificate is recorded; or
- (b) A certificate from a branch of the armed forces that shows the beginning and ending dates of the individual's active military service; or
- (c) **A photocopy of the document described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this section.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 45 U.S.C. 231f.

### Source

Source: 49 FR 46734, Nov. 28, 1984, unless otherwise noted.