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Old 31st Aug 2012, 13:05
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Wow. It works. I'm a 'B'.

Surely now people know that they can make up service numbers that check out. Oh well.
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Old 31st Aug 2012, 13:38
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But, why, what is the purpose? Is like a parity bit in software for error detection?
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Old 31st Aug 2012, 13:50
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Kind of. It was a check letter to make sure the service number was correct or valid or not false.

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Old 31st Aug 2012, 13:52
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I was at Kinloss - handed everything back and I signed my own blue card with names from Walt Disney, handed it and my ID card to a youngster in the general office just before lunch time on Friday and started at CSE Oxford on the Monday. No recollections of any pangs or sad moments. Several celebratory whiskies on the Viscount service from INV to LHR and that was it.
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Old 31st Aug 2012, 14:12
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No recollections of any pangs or sad moments.
Time is a great healer.......they say.

[QUOTE]Several celebratory whiskies on the Viscount service from INV to LHR and that was it.
[QUOTE]

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Old 31st Aug 2012, 16:37
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That letter calculator didnt work for me.

My number was O prefixed - according to that I should have been M prefixed (and that O prefixes didnt exist)

Still thats what you get for gaining your number as a Civvie Instructor with the Air Cadets and then becoming an Adult Sgt.
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Old 31st Aug 2012, 17:02
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Whilst that letter indeed provided a checksum for the service number it also stopped you using a mate's SN. For instance a friend of mine was just 2 digits less than mine. It would have been easy to enter his number in the forms etc except I didn't know his letter. I do now!
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