Service Numbers and Social Security Numbers. Service numbers and social security numbers are used at NPRC (MPR) as part of the identifiers used to store and locate records. Social Security Number (SSN). Always include the veteran's social security number on a request. Service Number (SN).
DETENTION. The act of retaining a person or property, and preventing the removal of such person or property. 2. The detention may be occasioned by accidents, as, the detention of a ship by calms, or by ice; or it may, be hostile, as the detention of persons or ships in a foreign country, by order of the government.
Someone held at airport security without evidence of terrorism activity might be a type of unlawful detainment. Unlawful detainment includes getting arrested without reason or by illegal means. Holding a person at gunpoint without provocation is one type of unlawful detainment.