[Milsurplus] Oddball question

[Hue Miller]

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From: "Jack Antonio" <scr287 at sbcglobal.net>
 
> It would be interesting to know, 
> what poor GI was RA00000001 and
> how high did they get before they switched
> to SSNs.
> 
> If they kept the original system, when they reached
> RA99999999, would they have started over again.

Jack, interesting idea but it appears even the first numbers of the
sequence are not much date-related help. If i recall, my father's WW2 
serial is RA 1619xxxxx.  -Hue Miller