Serial numbers?

[Cando]

Yes Sir, So was the Cat that broke my hand last week, then got chewed out, By my wife and then the Locals, Sez, I am retired, to let the young ones do it, I hunted for almost an hour, didn't find the xxxxxx-fxxk anyway. Oh well. Bootcamp.? yea, now I remember, had a couple of DI's and everything. LOL
Semper Fi.
Cando

[Bruce59]

Parris Island 1959 Plt 378 1883755

[O.R. Davis]

My Dad's was 278198 & mine started with 207#### His, 1939, mine 1963

[moonspinner]

Yes it's true. I went in in may of 1961 and my serial number was 1964288. I think they changed in 1962.

[Otter5]

Hec I was given a service number on tha yellow footprints and told very heavily, "DO NoT FORGET THAT NUMBER", I still know it today Once a Marine always a Marine

[William Hardy]

May of 1967 - 2368512
Sometime in the 70s I started getting orders, etc with both my SN and SSN. This was pre-internet and it was not considered a problem. Once the bad guys started using the SSN to obtain information, especially after the internet came in, only the last 4 were used. I still have a seabag with my full SB/SSN. My newer ones have only my last 4. In 2006 when I went to Iraq, we couldn't put even the last 4 on the bags nor could we put our rank. It was a protection against someone trying to sabotage the bags of the leadership. How things changed over 40 years.

[radio relay]

Hec I was given a service number on tha yellow footprints and told very heavily, "DO NoT FORGET THAT NUMBER", I still know it today Once a Marine always a Marine

Yeah, it's weird how you still remember it. When I got an account on the Social Security Website, they make you use your SSN as your user-id, and I used my old serial number for the password because it's something I'll not forget.

[cpllawson]

Fifty four years ago my ser# was 1485912.

I enlisted in 1956 and received s/n 1639513

[LONESOME]

I joined the corps in 67 with a s/n 231xxxx and your right, it is a number I will never forget.

[fontman]

I was on the yellow footprints on Feb. 2, 1970 and my MSN is 2654516. I was (and still am) an Hollywood Marine!

[carrvy1]

I enlisted in 1954, serial # 1481*** I don't remember the last three I lost my sea bag and the serial # was on it. LOL.

[doctorgunner]

Oh yes remember the changeover - another of those political correct moves. We could no longer compute how long someone had been in our beloved Corps. Mine 2153xxx - yep remember it.

[Sheila Hays]

Plt.13A, Serial #W711***, Parris Island S. C. Sheila Hays

[CPL/7113]

P.I. March of 1959 Ptl.116 Serial # 1841370

[LONESOME]

When were you in?