I went to legal at my command today and asked for them to certify my college transcripts as "to be true" as well as make a certified copy of my birth certificate (I brought the original with me to them). The chief there told me that they aren't allowed to do that because even if they witness me open the envelope containing the college transcripts, they weren't the ones who created them so they can't prove it was my school who created, thus they cant notarize it. Yet it has my school seals on the envelope and it says on the back of the envelope "not official if broken." But during my time of getting my package together and sitting down with officers who were OSC officers, I know for a fact that they had theirs certified to be true by their command. One officer had his done at a Navy College office. The chief then proceeded to tell me that all the other officers I had mentioned were wrong and what was done for them was illegal. Is she wrong or she just being a stickler? My legal won't notarize them. Does anyone know who in Hampton Roads, Virginia can notarize them for me as well as make a certified copy of my birth certificate?