To be sure of the final results, please choose from the following:. Black tag with regular text. The paint is not removed from the letters. Black tag with the paint removed from the letters, making the letters look white. Traditional Stainless Steel is standard military issue. Sometimes, Shiny Stainless Steel is used.
These are the only two options shown on the current form. Other colors are available and are not standard military issue. If you want to order one of these colors, click on the images shown below to visit those respective order pages:. Shipping Information. Click here. Dog Tag Stamping Another popular belief is that the notch was used in the old Graphotype dog tag stamping machines in order to line up a blank dog tag for proper tag alignment during tag stamping.
Tag Configuration. Silencer Color. What is darkened text? Indent text, because it is stamped downward, has a tendency, over time, to gather dirt within the letters. This makes the letters easier to read. See Text Alignment Options. It is to Mortuary Affairs we therefore turn for the answer to why the older style of dog tags i. Dog tags are issued by the military for the purpose of tracking the identities of their wearers, either to identify the remains of those who have died or to put names and medical histories to those who have been grievously injured and rendered unable to provide that information for themselves.
The tags which are now worn in pairs hung on a beaded chain around the neck bear the following information about the person they were issued to: surname followed by initials , service number, branch of service, blood type, and religion if desired by the individual.
The tags are issued in pairs because upon death of the wearer one tag needs to be retrieved from the body and sent to Mortuary Affairs along with intelligence about where the body is, and one must be left with the remains for identification purposes.
Battlefield rumor held that the notched end of the tag was placed between the front teeth of battlefield casualties to hold the jaws in place. This lack of romance is perhaps some of the reason for the popularity of grisly rumors about the purpose for the notch — what reality fails to supply, rumor agreeably contributes. More than thirty years since the cleft was last a part of these tags, mail from our readers confirms the story is very much in circulation.
Indeed, some have heard unusual variations on the theme:. The story was that this was to hold a dead soldiers mouth open to allow gases to escape until the body was attended to. These vapors eventually escape as the tissue containing them breaks down, allowing them to leak from the body.
Sometimes variations encountered by our readers served to add to the basic rumor, as in this telling:. In the days long before military dog tags were even a thought, U. Army officers at the attack on Confederate fortifications at Cold Harbor, Virginia, noticed troops sewing their names into their jackets. After more than three years of bloody fighting, everyone knew how dangerous the coming battle would be.
They were about to attack six miles of zigzagged earthworks that would expose them to withering cross-fires. The men wanted to give the Army a way to identify their bodies once the shooting was over. Throughout the war, attempts to give soldiers ways to identify themselves were varied. Units used circular discs and "soldier pins" in an effort to identify and record the names of the men in their ranks -- but only one per person.
None of these efforts were uniform, however, and tens of thousands of soldiers killed in action were buried in mass graves or marked as unknowns. Other soldiers fixed paper identification tags to themselves and their belongings. Others fashioned crude identification markers from wood. In , General Order required the issue of an aluminum disc the size of a half-dollar coin to be worn around troops' necks. Though it came after the Spanish-American War, it was a more uniform way of identifying soldiers and a step in the right direction -- but still only issued one at a time.
By the beginning of World War I, the "dog tag" as we know it began to take shape. Soldiers deploying to fight in the trenches of WWI were given two coin-like metal discs, each marked with their name.
They wore them into combat and, if they were killed, one coin stayed on their remains.
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