Just as you will be learning a new way of telling time, the military has their own way of annotating dates. This standardization ensures that all dates are understood correctly no matter who may be reading or writing them.
You may be used to using dates in the following format: Nov 28 2005
The military dating system uses the following format: 28 Nov 05
With months that you may normally spell out completely such as the month of July which is used in the following civilian example: July 28 2005
The military limits the number of letters used to abbreviate the month to 3 (three) as seen in the following military date example: 28 JUL 05
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55 years, this has been the basic guidebook for enlisted leaders
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