Cabell County: Veterans Service Officers and discharge recording

Cabell County has no county veterans office; the state Huntington claim office on Fourth Avenue carries the claims work, and the clerk holds military discharges as restricted-access records.

Also called: VSO, Huntington, Joe Diedrich, Robert Pauley, Collin Elliott, DD-214, restricted access, Record Room.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Cabell County, WVCounty

Cabell County's own government runs no veterans service office - the county site has no veterans department, and text searches across its pages return nothing - so the veterans service function is the West Virginia Department of Veterans Assistance's Huntington Claim Office, at 640 4th Avenue, Room 158, Huntington, WV 25701, phone (304) 399-9395, fax (304) 399-9363. Its claims office supervisor is Joe Diedrich, with service officers Robert Pauley and Collin Elliott and veterans service officer assistant Mattie Stanley. The department's services are free to the veteran. Discharge papers. The county clerk's Record Room, 750 5th Avenue, Courthouse Suite 108, Huntington, (304) 526-9820, [email protected], keeps military discharges as "Restricted Access" records - the clerk's own page says all its records "are a matter of public record, with the exception of military discharges". Recording the original is free under Code 7-1-3LL, and Code 59-1-10(a)(5) sets "No charge for a service discharge record" on the statewide clerk fee schedule; the clerk's site publishes no fee line for discharges at all, so ask before assuming anything about certified copies. The county commission's records for the year read - twenty-eight minutes and seventy-nine agendas from September 2025 to October 2026 - contain zero veteran mentions of any kind. The county's ten published ordinance categories contain no veteran provision, and the county is not in the Municode library. Cabell County is the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and its adult drug court carries a veterans treatment court track - see the county's veterans treatment court entry.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Cabell County: Veterans Service Officers and discharge recording
Gate	Rule
Any veteran or family member	The Huntington claim office advises Cabell County veterans and their families on VA and state benefits and files claims, free of charge. No rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.

Sources

West Virginia Department of Veterans Assistance, Huntington Claim Office (read 2026-10-08)Official
Cabell County Clerk, Record Room (read 2026-10-08)Official
West Virginia Code 59-1-10Official
West Virginia Code 7-1-3LLOfficial

Updated

Last updated 2026-10-08.

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