A call to ARMS

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  • By Master Sgt. Kerry Bartlett
  • 934th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
Minneapolis, St. Paul --  All 934th Airlift Wing personnel are called to ARMS, the Automated Records Management System, to access personnel files. 

The system, accessible through the Air Force Portal, is available 24 hours a day using the Comman Access Card card to access the system.
Service members no longer need to rely on hard copy files accessible only during normal business hours of the military personnel flight. Now, records needed immediately are accessible with just a few clicks. 

"A lot of people don't know that it exists," said Master Sgt. Louis Herbes, chief of personnel relocations. 

The system holds records such as DEERS, SGLI, awards, decorations and promotion and transfer orders, said Ginger Porter-Foster, civilian, chief of customer service, 934th Military Personnel Flight. It will also hold performance reports and DD-214's, said Herbes. Members can see, print or save the documents, he added.
Annual tour orders and travel orders will still be available through AROWS-R, said Porter-Foster. The MPF will still have access to the records but we're trying to make the service member more self-sufficient, Herbes said.
'I walked all the way over here for nothing,' is a response often heard at the MPF said the customer service chief.