{"id":506,"date":"2017-09-06T19:51:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=506"},"modified":"2017-09-06T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:51:23","slug":"dog-tags","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/dog-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Tags"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Dog tags<\/b>\u00a0is an informal but common term for the identification tags worn by\u00a0military personnel<\/a>. The tags are primarily used for the identification of dead and wounded soldiers; they have personal information about the soldiers and convey essential basic medical information, such as\u00a0blood type<\/a>[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and history of\u00a0inoculations<\/a>. The tags often indicate religious preference as well. Dog tags are usually fabricated from a corrosion-resistant metal.”<\/p>\n

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U.S. Army Dog Tags from World War II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“They commonly contain two copies of the information, either in the form of a single tag that can be broken in half or two identical tags on the same chain. This duplication allows one tag (or half-tag) to be collected from a soldier’s body for notification and the second to remain with the corpse when battle conditions prevent it from being immediately recovered. The term “dog tags” arose because of their resemblance to\u00a0animal registration tags<\/a>. ”<\/p>\n

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“Dog tags\u00a0is an informal but common term for the identification tags worn by\u00a0military personnel. The tags are primarily used for the identification of dead and wounded soldiers; they have personal information about the soldiers and convey essential basic medical information, such as\u00a0blood type[1]\u00a0and history of\u00a0inoculations. The tags often indicate religious preference as well. Dog tags … Continue reading Dog Tags<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/506\/revisions\/508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}