Yeah, our boots come with a special slot for dog tags - half a tag in each boot.
Of course, in these days of DNA profiling, they’re probably redundant.
Re DNA profiling, it is, I think, a process far too time consuming–it is not like in the crime TV shows–for it to be feasible for Graves Registration (I think that’s what they call it in the US).
Then I wonder why the Army took my DNA sample around 1998 or so? Of course ID tags and cards are easier to use. Most of the time the remains will not be unknown. But DNA is certainly a tool that the military has used for a while now.
Thanks. Ignorance fought.
I concur with this. A lot of my buddies did this while in the Air Force. I never did, I had a meat-tag (dogtag info tattooed on your body).
Holy crap. I assume this was allowed…what data?
[BTW, --and this NOT a comparison–in WW II the only German soldiers with ID tattoos were SS, which pointed them out to investigators.]
I had name, religion, and NKA (no known allergies).
I figured if I died the odds were very slim that I’d be in one piece, so why not?
I think that they just had their blood type tattooed on their armpit.
Correct.
Also confirmed by a neo-Nazi site in America, whose URL I will not print for obvious reasons.
From a convo I had today with an AF vet:
He told me the teeth thing was true, which I remembered – from this thread! – as being bullshit, so he might have been into bullshitting the next part, the reason for the bump:
“You get a larger dog tag and a smaller one; the larger one stays with you and the smaller one is affixed to any limbs fingers, etc., that get blown off and must accompany you, for surgery if wounded or burial.”
He was in Tactictical Air Control, which I do believe…
This is arrant nonsense and I’ve been whooshed. I’m pissed at myself for embarrassing myself.
Sometimes out of sheer boredom, we’d go to Personnel and tell them we needed new dog tags because we changed our religion. For a while I was a “Zen Baptist”, then I got into alliteration and became an “Existential Episcopalian”.
But the original notch was for lining up the tag in an addressograph machine.