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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK
My understanding:
The "SF" serialized knives are the issued ones to the new graduates.
The non-sf serialized knives are the ones sold in book-store to the OLD FOGs that have proof of having earned the their MOS's, prior to the 18x series..
It had to do with keeping the sequence numbers separate, yet still accountable..
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The First knives that the Bookstore sold did not have any Alpha Prefix. I have 0569 for example. They started adding the SF Prefix when the initial run was exhausted, I believe mainly to keep the "Graduate's" #s sequential and not broken by the FOGs!! My Son got 9996 last April, no Alpha Prefix.