# Finding an old friend who went into the NAVY...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-an-old-friend-who-went-into-the-navy/47529>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 28, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-an-old-friend-who-went-into-the-navy/47529 "2000-12-28T16:59:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-an-old-friend-who-went-into-the-navy/47529/1 "2000-12-28T16:59:26Z")

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I’ve tried finding him on the normal net searches, but have come up with too many hits (common name). His name is Jeff Mayfield, from Colorado, is (was?) married to a girl named Allison, and the last time I saw him he was working as an airplane mechanic in the NAVY, stationed in Virginia(I _think_ he even said F-16’s) in the early 90’s.

Are there military organizations, websites or ??? that I can contact and try and feed in all of the little bits of information I know about him to come up with a smaller list of people to contact?

Yes, I know, I’ll fork out the $75 if this doesn’t work, but I’m trying to find him for free first.

Take care-  
-Tcat

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**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-an-old-friend-who-went-into-the-navy/47529/2 "2000-12-28T17:20:40Z")

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The Navy Locator service should be able to help you. Start looking at:

[http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/people/faq/.www/locate.html](http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/people/faq/.www/locate.html)

Good luck!

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**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-an-old-friend-who-went-into-the-navy/47529/3 "2000-12-29T08:06:03Z")

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Thanks, I’ll write!  
-T

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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-an-old-friend-who-went-into-the-navy/47529/4 "2000-12-29T14:33:53Z")

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If you have a social security number and/or old adress, I can probably find him.