Talk:Service number (United States Marine Corps)

2,600,000 enlisted numbers
This article is incorrect. I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1970 & my ID # began with 26. Please investigate and correct. Semper Fi, Jim Santella -User:Jsantella


 * Not that I doubt you, but the source for the article, NPRC Memo 1865 concerning service numbers, states that the last series of USMC number issued was 2,000,000 thru 2,199,999. 1970 was also right when the USMC was converting to SSNs as the primary identification means so you might be thinking about the first two numbers of your social security number.  Do you have an entire service number you can share? -OberRanks (talk) 16:36, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


 * After some checking, it does appear that the numbers extended above 2,600,000 with a few 2,700,000s before the end of service numbers. I corrected the article and added a better picture reflecting the end service number. -OberRanks (talk) 20:08, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Gene Hackman
Interesting that my sources have him with an early WWII number but he would have 15 in 1945. I think the number might be wrong. Will have to look into this. -OberRanks (talk) 01:20, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

A very sad day
A very sad day that this was actually allowed to pass as a delete vote:

Articles for deletion/James Ackerman (USMC)

Insult to injury is that the deleting admin did not fix any of the red links this created. Kind of like making you clean up your own blood after you get beat up. Anyway, emotions aside, I came up with an obvious solution - that is to create an external website with the service hsitories of the first two USMC service # holders and link it to this site. It might take a month or two, but thats what I plan to do. -OberRanks (talk) 13:47, 2 November 2009 (UTC)