How many remember the date you joined the service

[mijohn]

sept 11,1967 us army

 

[Pete in MD]

Enlisted 12 July 1962. OCS 29 Oct 62. Commissioned Mar 1963. 3 sea tours...refrigerated cargo ship AF out of Norfolk, XO on LST out of Little Creek, and DDG out of San Diego. Made one WestPac trip to I-Corps doing shore call-fire bombardment and chasing carriers in plane guard position. Retired June 1983.

 

[used red MN]

Nov 11 1983, 10 months of DEP because of the rate I chose. Showed up in San Diego 5 Sept 1984. Played the game for 23yrs

You answered this thread in Feb. reply 72!

 

[Ultradog MN]

You answered this thread in Feb. reply 72!

Maybe forgot he had already replied.
Unlikely he'll ever forget the day he went in.

 

[Texasmark]

Tomorrow March 17, I left the farm and joined the Navy, for four years of fun. Stan

I received a draft notice and on my birthday in 1959, after finishing high school, I went to Houston and signed up for the draft as required. That was my first stop for the day. The second stop was the USAF recruiter and I signed up spending 9 years with them. No way did I want to be slopping through swamps, living in the rain, eating out of C ration cans, and other niceties.

 

[JWA]

US Army 5-6-66

 

[Gordy in Mn.]

November 15 1965. Gordy in Mn.

 

[GChief]

You answered this thread in Feb. reply 72

 

[used red MN]

Maybe forgot he had already replied.
Unlikely he'll ever forget the day he went in.

I never answered the call, not that I would have been opposed to it. My path just had other opportunities. Thanks to all that served.

 

[Ray,IN]

August 20 1970. I was drafted, that's the day I left for basic training
DWF

I received my draft notice two weeks after Kennedy exempted married men from the draft. Aug. 16 1966. Received my orders for RVN just before Christmas1966.

 

[centralilbaler]

20 April 1980 the delayed entry until Sept 2nd. The start of the best 22 yrs of my life!

 

[sammyd]

Tomorrow March 17, I left the farm and joined the Navy, for four years of fun. Stan

Nov 20, 1984 shipped out of Minneapolis for several fun filled months at Orlando RTC then on to 7 more years active and 2 reserve

 

[Ray,IN]

Drafted Aug. 16, 1966, 2 weeks after Kennedy exempted married men from the draft. Dad wanted me to go join the Navy. I couldn't swim so waited on the draft. Three weeks later I was crawling in mud and water underneath barbed wire, with a machine gun firing over my head. Retired 21 yrs. later.

 

[Bill in Colo]

Drafted August 18, 1968

 

[David from Kansas]

Nov. 15, 1962, off to Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. by bus. Arrived there late at night. First thing I thought was "what am I getting into?" 6 months of active duty for training (Army National Guard) 6 year enlistment that lasted for 40+ years.

 

[sotxbill]

Nov 1, 1971. Luckey to have tested well and got a slot in the TANG.

 

[ole fred]

To bring this back to the top: How many of you remember your service number?
Obviously, this would be before about 1968 or so as after about that time they started using social security numbers.

They would be US, RA, ER or NG for the army at least.

 

[Ray,IN]

To bring this back to the top: How many of you remember your service number?
Obviously, this would be before about 1968 or so as after about that time they started using social security numbers.

They would be US, RA, ER or NG for the army at least.

I'll never forget mine, I never reveal that old number because I still use it for sensitive stuff. I wonder how many Americans knew the U.S.A. had two different armies back then?

 

[GChief]

How many of you remember your service number?

Easy day for us younger old farts, they no longer did service numbers when I was in, your SSN was your number

 

[Ultradog MN]

To bring this back to the top: How many of you remember your service number?
Obviously, this would be before about 1968 or so as after about that time they started using social security numbers.

They would be US, RA, ER or NG for the army at least.

Wondering about the time you say they transitioned to your SSN.
I enlisted 7/21/71 (Navy) and we were given Service numbers.
It was on our dog tags and we had to stencil it along with our names on all our clothes in boot camp.
It was within just a few months after that they went to your SSN.
Mine was D819058