When Did The US Military Switch From Serial Numbers To SSN's??
The other day at my barber shop, I overheard two retired vets trying to remember what year it was. One of them swore that it was 1947, and the other one said it was 1957.
My attempts to Google the answer haven't been very successful. Do you know when it was?
1968 to 1972. Had both. I think they stopped using serial numbers by 1980 or so. I still rmemember my serial number too. Not sure if thats a good thing....... :)
My haircut-day is tomorrow... and I'm hoping to be able to impress these fellows with the definitive and authoritative answer to their question.
At least one of them... sometimes both... but at least one of them is always there on Friday around lunchtime. This place often has patrons that remind me of the fellows who hung out at Floyd's barber shop on the Andy Griffith show. It's a treat just to listen to them reminisce and BS and tell fish-stories and war-stories.
8. I joined the navy in August of 71 and was given a service ...
number in boot camp but they changed it to my SSN shortly thereafter. So I would say January of 72 but it may have been different in the different branches of the military.
And I used my SSN number, too. John I love questions like this one, where one is required to say "beats the hell outta me." You learn something new every day, y'know?
10. In 1970 I went in with a Service Number, it was changed sometime
while I was in.... I don't exactly remember when.
The 47 and 57 dates they are talking about are probably when everyone in the military was required to have a SSN, which was not required before since the military does not contribute to the SS fund.
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