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    Wannabe is offline Nov 5, 1946 - Nov 19, 2018
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    What does your DD214 say about you???

    Are you a malcontent, bed wetter, drunk, or just smell bad? It's on your DD 214.
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    I got mine out of the safe and looked...It was just stamped "Good Riddance"......Ben

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    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:
    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    and because codes may be outdated, you must not use them for any unauthorized purpose.
    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:
    Enlisted separation - early release of personnel assigned to installations or units scheduled for inactivation, permanent change of station, or demobilization
    ...which corresponds to the actual conditions of my separation, commonly referred to then as "Early Out"......Ben
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    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:















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    If they have a code on me, just chuck it.
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    Apparently I failed to make an impression---mine says nuttin

    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    I separated on 30 Apr, 65 from the Army and there are no code numbers associated with the SPN 411.
    Apparently similar to 701......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    Apparently similar to 701......Ben
    I see says the blind man---and that would be me

    I made a deal with the devil to go to hell so I could get out early-----and a very good deal it was
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Well what ever it is didn't keep me out of serving 2 weeks with the National Guard the following year.
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    I lied.......was reading the wrong thing......
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    Quote Originally Posted by FredK View Post
    Well what ever it is didn't keep me out of serving 2 weeks with the National Guard the following year.
    Nor did it stop them from trying to recall me in 1967

    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

    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
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Wannabe is offline Nov 5, 1946 - Nov 19, 2018
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    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:















    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.

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    Wow I got drafted twice, first time at Fairbanks and second in Wa. So guess others got it also.
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