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Since this thread seems to have brought attention to Gen'l Krulak, here's another one.

He was based at Quantico (Maj Gen Merrill B. Twining, who's brother was Lt Gen Nathan B. Twining - was Base...

For the history behind the dog tag "saga," this is probably the best authority:
http://www.qmfound.com/short_history_of_identification_tags.htm

Since Silverdollar's S/N is 148XXXX AND he enlisted the same year (1954)as you makes me wonder how "blocks" of "S/N"s were issued. It sure doesn't seem like the Corps trained 90,000 a year as the...

Here's what I found in an earlier post I made:

While Googling about SSNs and USMC service number usage, it seems the USMC service number BEGAN at 20001.

Along with that tidbit, the earliest for SSN-in-place-of-service-number authorization...

Mine was 180XXXX in Aug/57 at PI. There were no 17XXXXXs in my Plt. It was either 169s or 180s only. Were 17XXXXs MCRDSD?