Service number (United States Air Force)

A collection of service numbers from a United States Air Force officer's service record. From left to right (top to bottom): A Regular Air Force officer number, an Army Air Forces Reserve officer number, a Regular Army (Air Corps) officer number, and a Regular Army enlisted number.

United States Air Force service numbers were created in the spring of 1948, approximately six months after the Air Force's creation as separate branch of the armed forces.[1]

  1. ^ Department of the Air Force, TRF ORDER 1, 26 September 1947