With all the talk about identity theft and all the problems with keeping personally identifiable information secure, why does the military continue to use our social security numbers for everything.
I can't count the number of times I have been asked for my SSN. At TBS, everyone with any collateral duty (which means everyone) had a roster with everyone's SSN. Every day I drive onto base I show some random civilian a card with my SSN on it. Every time I fill out an "official" document I write my full SSN on it. It is all over my medical records and passed around the Admin Office.
Why doesn't the military assign each member a "service number" with which they could positively identify us?
I can't count the number of times I have been asked for my SSN. At TBS, everyone with any collateral duty (which means everyone) had a roster with everyone's SSN. Every day I drive onto base I show some random civilian a card with my SSN on it. Every time I fill out an "official" document I write my full SSN on it. It is all over my medical records and passed around the Admin Office.
Why doesn't the military assign each member a "service number" with which they could positively identify us?