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On Feb 11, 12:15 pm, Ken Moffett <KLMoff...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Ken Moffett <KLMoff...@comcast.net> wrote
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> > George <gvi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
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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
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> >>>>>>> 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
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> >>>>> 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
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> > day we started, but by the time we got to stenciling our
> > number on our underware it was the first initial of the
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> > name and the last four of your SSN. Since the first week
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> > spent as a Rainbow Flight (remember that? :( ), it was in
> > February.
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> > Ken
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> Sorry, I made a mistake on the switch from Service Number to
> SSN. I had said February of '68. That was wrong...that was
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> I got married. Anniversary the 25th! It was a year later, Feb
> '69 February that I started Basic Training, and switch was
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That explains it then, that was a few months after I got out of the
Air Force. I didn't know they had switched to the SSN and considering
the considering the Governments distaste for using the SSN for
anything beyond the Social Security Program, I'm surprised.
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