IDENTIFICATION OF SERVICE IN VIETNAM IN THE COMPUTERIZED INDEX OF THE NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER.

SEC. 1153. IDENTIFICATION OF SERVICE IN VIETNAM IN THE COMPUTERIZED INDEX OF THE NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER. (a) Assistance.—The Secretary of Defense shall provide to the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, such information and technical assistance as the Secretary considers to be appropriate to assist the Center in establishing an indicator in the computerized index of the Center that will facilitate searches for, and the selection of, military records of military personnel based upon service in a theater of operations during the Vietnam conflict. (b) Report on Implementation.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report containing a plan to establish the indicator described in subsection (a). The Secretary shall prepare the report in consultation with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Archivist of the United States. (c) Vietnam Conflict Defined.—For purposes of this section, the term “Vietnam conflict" has the meaning given that term in section 1035(g)(2) of title 10, United States Code.