The military now uses your Social Security Number as your Serial Number...when did that change
2006-09-25 04:28:23 · 9 answers · asked by mfprowley 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
According to this link, it was in the 60's, but they were definitely using the SSN in the 80's-I was there.
http://www.cato.org/dailys/02-07-02.html
"A step at a time, during the 1960s the SSN became the taxpayer identifier used by the IRS, the identifier for federal civilian and military personnel, the Medicare identifier, and more."
2006-09-25 04:31:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Armed forces of the United States first invented service numbers in the year 1905 and abolished their use in 1974. Prior to that time, the following formats were used to denote U.S. military service numbers:
12-345-678: United States Army and U.S. Air Force enlisted service numbers
123-45-67: United States Navy enlisted service numbers
12-345: United States Coast Guard enlisted service numbers
123456: United States Marine Corps enlisted service numbers
12345: Service number format for most U.S. military officers
Social Security Numbers are today used as the primary means to identify members of the U.S. military. The common format for a social security numbers is 123-45-6789.
They should have kept the Serial Numbers - it would not have made any difference if the world world knew my serial number RA 18710541 but I would not want anyone knowing my SS number. Another military F*** up
2006-09-25 04:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by oldhippypaul 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
they started using social security numbers The Army changed regulations on July 6, 1916, so that all men were issued two tags: one to stay with the body and the other to go to the person in charge of the burial for record-keeping purposes. In 1918, the Army adopted and allotted the serial number system, and name and serial numbers were ordered stamped on the identification tags of all enlisted men. (Serial number 1 was assigned to enlisted man Arthur B. Crean of Chicago in the course of his fifth enlistment period.) In 1969 the Army converted to the Social Security number for personnel identification. Some nations have instead of two tags a single tag with a half that can be easily broken off for the purpose of record-keeping.
2006-09-25 04:39:48 · answer #3 · answered by hotsauce919rr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Army and Air Force discontinued using service numbers in 1969; the Marines in 1971; and the Navy in 1972.
2013-10-28 15:00:41 · answer #4 · answered by Sam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was sometime in 68 or 69. I went into the AF in 1967 and was assigned a AF number. Later they started using SSN's.
I wouldn't be surprised if they abondended the use of SSN's with all the identify theft's going on.
2006-09-25 05:11:51 · answer #5 · answered by j H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know when it was but the people who are saying in the 60s are wrong. I went to Vietnam in 69 and had a serial number, not my ssn
2006-09-25 04:48:07 · answer #6 · answered by » mickdotcom « 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the early '60s.
2006-09-25 04:35:38 · answer #7 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
April 1972, they took mine away the first day of bootcamp.
2006-09-25 04:48:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
About 20 years ago I think.
2006-09-25 04:32:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋