Servicemembers continue to receive dog tags during Basic Training, and if they lose them, it's their responsibility to replace them. They can do this at their unit or most military surplus stores ...

During the Civil War, the inability of the military to identify battlefield casualties created the need for a soldier identification method: Enter the dog tag. According to the U.S. Army ...

“We were living in a military dictatorship for a long time [in Thailand], which ended a few years ago,” points out the designer, who labels her brand’s dog tags as “tagged ID necklaces ...

It is to Mortuary Affairs we therefore turn for the answer to why the older style of dog tags (i.e., tags manufactured between 1941 and the early 1970s) worn by those serving in the U.S. military ...

Soldiers in the military are highly regarded.” And whether they are current or former, an important possession for all service personnel is their dog tags, as the small military identification ...

In the early 1950s cities across the U.S. spent hundreds of thousands of dollars outfitting their children with military-style dog tags. Why were we giving kids something that’s usually reserved ...