Trinity County Clerk: Discharge Papers Filed Free, a Military Records Request Form

The office. Shasta Bergman, Trinity County Clerk, 211 W. 1st Street (P.O. Box 456), Groveton, TX 75845; phone 936-642-1208, fax 936-642-3004. Chief Deputy Clerk Jeanette Vasquez. The fee line. The Clerk's fee sheet lists, under official records, "Discharge Papers for Veterans ... $-0-". Local Government Code 192.002 makes the filing free and Government Code 603.003 the certified copy (see the Texas entry). The form. The Clerk's "Military Records Information Request" asks for the veteran's name, branch and time of service, and the applicant's name, address, type of identification presented and relationship, and warns that falsifying the form is a felony. Government Code 552.140 keeps a discharge recorded on or after September 1, 2003 confidential for 75 years and releases it only to the veteran, the veteran's guardian, spouse, child or parent (or, with none living, the nearest living relative), the estate's personal representative, a person named in a power of attorney, a governmental body or the funeral home assisting with the burial.