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From: "Dave Pointer" <dpointer@comcast.net>
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Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Military Service numbers
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:00:17 -0500
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That's interesting!  I didn't know they had that meaning.  Although my 2nd
and 3rd digits were "65" and I was drafted in 1967.

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com]
On Behalf Of Dan Brennan
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:02 AM
To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com
Subject: [ROOTS-L] Military Service numbers


At least during the Korean war, Army enlistees were given an "RA" 
number, which we  understood to mean
"regular army" and draftees were assigned a "US" number. The  first 
number in the US series meant the army
district from which drafted (as Fifth Army). the second and third 
numbers were the year entered service and the last four numbers
the sequence in which entered service. The numbers were assigned at 
entry into the service.
That info may be of use in some use genealogical searches.