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By Rod Powers, About.com

U.S. Marine Corps: The Marine Corps can provide the duty station for active duty personnel and reservists. For retired individuals, the locator service can provide the city and state, but not an address. The service will provide the service member's current rank and unit address; however, due to the locator's staffing, the office cannot forward mail except in special cases. Telephonic requests to 1-703-784-3942 are free of charge to immediate family members and government officials calling on official business. In addition, telephonic service will be provided at no cost to any individual, business or organization, if the Marine locator decides the information would benefit the individual.

Commandant of the Marine Corps
Headquarters, USMC
Code MMSB-10
Quantico, VA 22134-5030

U.S. Coast Guard: The Coast Guard World Wide Locator has duty stations for active duty personnel. To locate Active Duty Personnel Only: To locate Active Duty Personnel Only: The telephone number is (202) 267-0581 or send us an e-mail to Locator@comdt.uscg.mil

You can also write to:

Coast Guard Personnel Command (CGPC-adm-3)
2100 Second St, SW
Washington, DC 20593-0001
Telephone: (202) 267-0581
Fax: 202-267-4985

Coast Guard Personnel Command does not have custody of crew lists or current addresses for former Coast Guard service members.

Unofficial Military Locator Services

The government does not keep track of the location of former military members (except retired members). In this case, the best bet is to try one of the online military personnel locator databases. These are web sites that allow former military members to enter their contact information, so that it is available to people who wish to find them. The disadvantage is that the member will not be listed there, unless he/she specifically requested that their information be listed.

Military Network
Very large database of current and former military personnel.

Air Force Email Locator
Over 3,000 listings of email addresses for current and former members of the Air Force.

Military.com Buddy Finder
Online resource to help military friends locate and communicate with each other.

Military Connections
Military Connection's Find a Buddy service is a large database of current and former military personnel.

Military Reunions

If you know the name of the unit that the person was assigned to, you may wish to check to see if that unit is having a reunion. If you can find the name of a contact person for a reunion for the unit, chances are he/she will have pages of names of former members. Here are a few of the best:

Military Connections
Listings for upcoming reunions for the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Coast Guard.

MilitaryUSA
Very large listing (over 7,000) of reunions for the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy, and Coast Guard.

Military Reunions
Online listing of upcoming military reunions for all of the services.

Military Locator & Reunion Services
Large listing of upcoming military reunions.

Other Resources

Don't forget the traditional areas of people location on the 'Net, such as online telephone books.

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