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On Feb 10, 4:55 pm, Jim Carriere <jimcarri...@yahoooo.nospam> wrote:
> Ron Wanttaja wrote:
> > On 10 Feb 2007 16:14:45 -0800, "BobR" <r...@r-a-reed-assoc.com> wrote:
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> >> Many things do not quite add up. For instance...
>
> >>> Q. What is your military service number?
>
> >>> A. It would be the same as my social security number - 146524672.
> >> When did the Air Force, Army, or any branch of the service start using
> >> the Social Security Number as the Military Service Number? It sure
> >> wasn't used when I was in the Air Force.
>
> > And you, Billy Mitchell, and Ben Folois probably had many arguments about it,
> > too. :-)
>
> > Not sure when it was, but the services did switch to the SSAN. I went in the
> > Air Force about the same time as Zoom, and my SSAN was my service number.
>
> http://www.ssa.gov/history/1960.html
>
> Skip down to July 1, 1969.
>
> It seems like a McNamara-ism (whiz-kid style business decision), but it
> actually happened after his tenure as SECDEF and during the first Nixon
> administration.- Hide quoted text -
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That was a surprise. I was in 1954-1975. I was thinking it was late
50s or early 60s. Still remember my old AF number.
Harry K
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