[Milsurplus] Oddball question

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Jack,

In a message dated 8/25/2004 6:25:50 PM Central Daylight Time, 
scr287 at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> If they kept the original system, when they reached
> RA99999999, would they have started over again.
> 

No.  Don't know what they would have done but it wouldn't have been that.

> My original question was prompted by the serial
> number on the cover of a 1945 manual, and whether
> or not its presence would be any indication of date of
> usage, but it appears the RA system was in use in
> WWII and well after, so no clues there.

I thought your original question had merit.  Track down who belongs to the 
serial number and his/her dates of service versus paygrade.

It isn't really pertinent to your original question but as USAF have been 
mentioned, USN and USNR used an alpha prefix ("B", for one) near the end before 
the changeover to SSAN's.  Prior to that we used a seven-digit numeric, at 
least for enlisted.  Don't know for sure about Warrants and Zeroes as I was 
commissioned after the changeover.  My original was 696nnnn assigned 08/61.

Robert Downs - Houston
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