Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On 10 Feb 2007 16:14:45 -0800, "BobR" wrote:

Many things don't quite add up. For instance...

Q. What is your military service number?

A. It would be the same as my social security number - 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 the 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

Skip down to July 1, 1969.

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.