B164722...and NEVER to be spken as B sixteen, forty seven, Twenty two!!! (Thanks for helping me remember that BM1 Close!)

901-73-41 Boston area. I still remember it after 57yrs (I also have my old dogtags as a key chain)

B648554 - Dodge City, Kansas 1969. Just passing through when General Hershey let me know my friends and neighbors had selected me for service to my nation.

Some things you never forget! I must have repeated that service number more than a thousand times in the year or so that it was used..... Perhaps the only thing that came out of my mouth more than that was "SIR".

Jerry

B392861, July 1969, Jackson, MS

Russ

B628755 - Kansas City 1967 and yes I feel like an "oldtimer"

470 78 27 Laurel, Ms. Dec 1955.
This was at the Naval Reserve Center at Laurel and in my Senior year in high school. About 10 of us went down and signed up. Myself, Oyd Davis and Bobby Freeman had consecutive serial numbers.
Marshall

B661419 Des Moines Iowa MEPS May 1970

Ed....try as I may I can't think of a single soul! (;

Never forgot it..........B12 39 33, only a few years ago......September 1966

ALL,
I thought you could tell where in the country folks were from by the sequence of the numbers, mine B10-05-33 was assigned in December, 1965, enlisted in Albany, N.Y. Not sure that is/was true?? Who knows what they did during the draft years. My draft notice arrived while I was at my first duty station in Argentia in the fall of 1966.
Chuck

Mine 6968163 I got drafted at Adak in 66. 3 yrs after I was in. I think Eds was number 2 Noah was 1

They asked me if I knew mine when I applied for social security B725535 enlisted in San Antonio Texas 9/67. does anyone still have their draft card who joined in south texas? I bet it was Signed by Annie Hartmangruber. I went through Boot camp with her son. Met up with him again on a trip to Keflavik while working for E-Systems.

773 55 28, NAS Los Alamitos Feb. 8, 1964. Enlisted in the reserves at the age of 17. Went Active duty Jun. 28, 1966 at NAS Alameda. Was drafted twice while there.

B453XXX Cleveland, OH 1968
It's amazing that I still remember that number instantly after 40 years. I think it is a smart move not to use SSNs on ID cards. With identity theft as prevalent as it is, why did it take so long


Bill Turner
former OT2
KEF 69-70
COSL 70-72