Maintained on paper, computer, and computer output products, and in microform. Retrieved by name, Social Security Number, military service number, or ATM card number. Records are stored in security file containers, cabinets, locked cabinets or rooms, protected by guards, and controlled by personnel screening, visitor registers and computer system software. After that time, records are either destroyed by tearing, shredding, pulping, macerating or burning or transferred by the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center to the Denver Federal Archives and Records Center for varying retention periods up to 56 years. Destroyed by shredding.
Destruction is by shredding.
Information pertaining to geographically dispersed elements of the record system may be obtained from Records Managers at the applicable Air Force component. Requester should be able to provide sufficient proof of identity, such as name, Social Security Number, military status, duty status or place of employment or other information verifiable from the record itself. The record system may be obtained from Record Managers at the applicable Air Force component. Requester should be able to provide sufficient proof of identity, such as name, Social Security Number, military status, duty status or place of employment or other information verifiable from the record itself. Information obtained from financial institutions, automated system interfaces, a state or local government, source documents such as reports, military pay information originating from telephone inquiries, telegraph messages and correspondence information from federal agencies and other DOD components and information from Air Force installations, Major Commands and USAF Headquarters.