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On Feb 11, 7:57 am, Ken Moffett <KLMoff...@comcast.net> wrote:
> George <gvi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote
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> > Harry K wrote:
> >> 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:
> >>>>> 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
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> >>> Skip down to July 1, 1969.
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> >>> 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
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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.
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> >> Harry K
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> > I was drafted in 67, issued an Army Service Number, it was
> > changed to SSN in 68 before heading off to South Viet Nam.
> > Remember it well, drilled into my head.
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> > George V.
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> The Air Force changed to the SSN shortly after I started
> basic training in February 1968. We had a service number the
> day we started, but by the time we got to stenciling our
> number on our underware it was the first initial of the last
> name and the last four of your SSN. Since the first week was
> spent as a Rainbow Flight (remember that? :( ), it was in
> February.
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That shows you how slow they learned. I went in to the AF in Sept.
68, was assigned RAF #, Stenciled in shorts, then switched to ssn
afterwards. I think some of shorts are still packed away with 3707 in
the band. May be a little ripe by now! Also doubt that they would
come close to fitting. as I recall the number was related year and to
sequencing of classes 68 053 707.
Dean B.
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