I joined the US Army at the Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) in Los Angeles, CA a couple months before the Rodney King riots. During the riots, the

I joined the US Army at the Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) in Los Angeles, CA a couple months before the Rodney King riots. During the riots, there were a lot of fires, and the MEPS station burned down. When I got the basic training several months later, I saw that my paperwork had survived the fire, but much of the paper had charred/browned from heat & smoke.