Ninety-year-old Susana Mallinson has been waiting over a year for her husband Frank's military service records from the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis. She is among the roughly 500,000 military family members affected by the massive backlog of record requests at the NPRC, an agency of the National Archives. Once she gets the records, she then has to apply for spousal benefits, which could take another two years. The National Archives told Fox News that the VA should be able to help supply the records. Mallinson's wish this year is to see her husband's military records arrive in the mail.

Source: Fox News July 10, 2021 02:26 UTC