Dog Tags and Following Orders
Dog Tags
Dog tags are required components of the military uniform. Dog tags are used to show a service member's name, social security number, blood type, and religious preference in case the service member becomes a casualty. Army Regulation 670-1 states that every service member must wear I.D tags at all times when traveling or overseas, even in civilian clothing, and that every service member in uniform must wear them in their everyday duty uniform. The importance and purpose of dog tags can be dated back to 1870 in the Franco-Prussian war. The Prussians issued them to their soldiers for the sake of identification; they got the nickname dog tag or Hundermark (German for dog tag) because dogs were issued matching tags in Prussian cities. (1)
The tags we use today originated in World War 1, and the purpose was that soldiers feared dying and being forgotten, so they created aluminum tags two of them, one to be taken when the soldier dies and the other to be left with the body, for easy identification. (2) The importance of dog tags and origin, though, are two entirely different things. We have dog tags with just enough of our personal information necessary to identify an unidentifiable body. Even after one hundred forty three years, our military uses dog tags for the same reason, identification. In many cases if it wasn’t for a dog tag tied in the back pocket, in a boot, or around the neck, a body would have went unidentified. It’s also important when an emergency transfusion is needed or a religious figure is needed to give the soldiers last rights or to give him a service. It also has an importance many might not know it’s a symbol of the oath that all of the soldiers have taken, an oath to defend the constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. When a soldier dies, he or she buried with his or her dog tag around his or her neck so that even many years later that body will be identifiable. Service members conducting routine daily activities even in garrison
Dog tags are required components of the military uniform. Dog tags are used to show a service member's name, social security number, blood type, and religious preference in case the service member becomes a casualty. Army Regulation 670-1 states that every service member must wear I.D tags at all times when traveling or overseas, even in civilian clothing, and that every service member in uniform must wear them in their everyday duty uniform. The importance and purpose of dog tags can be dated back to 1870 in the Franco-Prussian war. The Prussians issued them to their soldiers for the sake of identification; they got the nickname dog tag or Hundermark (German for dog tag) because dogs were issued matching tags in Prussian cities. (1)
The tags we use today originated in World War 1, and the purpose was that soldiers feared dying and being forgotten, so they created aluminum tags two of them, one to be taken when the soldier dies and the other to be left with the body, for easy identification. (2) The importance of dog tags and origin, though, are two entirely different things. We have dog tags with just enough of our personal information necessary to identify an unidentifiable body. Even after one hundred forty three years, our military uses dog tags for the same reason, identification. In many cases if it wasn’t for a dog tag tied in the back pocket, in a boot, or around the neck, a body would have went unidentified. It’s also important when an emergency transfusion is needed or a religious figure is needed to give the soldiers last rights or to give him a service. It also has an importance many might not know it’s a symbol of the oath that all of the soldiers have taken, an oath to defend the constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. When a soldier dies, he or she buried with his or her dog tag around his or her neck so that even many years later that body will be identifiable. Service members conducting routine daily activities even in garrison