Are you a malcontent, bed wetter, drunk, or just smell bad? It's on your DD 214.
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Are you a malcontent, bed wetter, drunk, or just smell bad? It's on your DD 214.
http://tinyurl.com/yahnx7td
I got mine out of the safe and looked...It was just stamped "Good Riddance"...:buttkick:...Ben
EDIT: See below...
After posting the above frivolously (which, as many here know, is my nature), I did more research...Here is a list containing the current alpha, as well as numerical codes no longer used...Here is a PDF of the latest alpha codes which I could find in a quick search...Here is a USAF letter meant for disbursement to USAF personnel involved with issuance and handling of DD214...Note the following phrase contained in the letter:My DD214 contains SPD code 715 which appears nowhere on the lists I found in a quick search...I suspect it may have been discontinued early on since my separation occurred in 1969...It may have been bunched with other similar codes into the 701 designator...Lists I found jump from 701 to 741...701 is explained as:Quote:
9.4. SPD codes do not show all the circumstances relating to a separation. For this reason,
and because codes may be outdated, you must not use them for any unauthorized purpose.
...which corresponds to the actual conditions of my separation, commonly referred to then as "Early Out"...:march:...BenQuote:
Enlisted separation - early release of personnel assigned to installations or units scheduled for inactivation, permanent change of station, or demobilization
A further note...The YouTube video in the original post {thanks Bob) is actually an eight-part series stretching to almost an hour and a half...For the convenience of others, I'll post all eight here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw9SvCiJm1k&t=33s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLzlTvV4U3A&t=555s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_sIauabpdk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao1qxJX8AIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szkPBCv5h4Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG0hAx3FA2Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxPGYYZsFv4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSx3wvsCZGY
If they have a code on me, just chuck it.
Apparently I failed to make an impression---mine says nuttin :dunno:
I separated on 30 Apr, 65 from the Army and there are no code numbers associated with the SPN 411.
Further searching leads me to believe there just might be more (or less) to this guys claim than is being presented on these videos. Imagine that :shrug:
There really is not a buggy man behind every tree Virginia :march:
Apparently similar to 701...:shrug:...BenQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
I see says the blind man---and that would be me :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Truckman
I made a deal with the devil to go to hell so I could get out early-----and a very good deal it was :flower:
Well what ever it is didn't keep me out of serving 2 weeks with the National Guard the following year.:rolleyes:
I lied.......was reading the wrong thing......
Nor did it stop them from trying to recall me in 1967 :help:Quote:
Originally Posted by FredK
Had it not been for me studying engineering in a university with multiple former high ranking military folks in the administration who intervened on my behalf I would have been allowed to return to hell---again :pissed:
The same day I got orders a friend of mine who had been an infantry First LT (also going to the same university but studying business administration) got his orders--they could not keep him out and sadly the last I say him was the day he left :(
In my original post I did not refer to the rest of the videos. If someone watched the first and was interested they would watch the rest. If they were not interested they would not watch the rest of them If they made it through the first one. It really doesn't matter to us old timers because if the code for you was wrong you only have five years after separation to get it changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Truckman
Wow I got drafted twice, first time at Fairbanks and second in Wa. So guess others got it also.