what kind of information do military dog tags contain?

Answer 1

Your name,a number(serial number), your blood type(there are two letters-one is a blood type, not sure what other is),and which branch of military you belong to.

Answer 2

A bit of mis-information on a couple of the answers: the RANK was not on your dog tags (name, service number, blood type & religious affiliation only). Under the Geneva Convention, military whose country had signed the Geneva Convention were only required to give their name, rank, branch of service, and service number. What is interesting, the countries the U.S. has fought the past several years were not part of the Geneva Convention yet the U.S. has/had to treat their POW's under the rules of the GC. Go figure. Those countries treat/treated our members worse than animals. Where were the bleeding heart human rights morons THEN? Not a peep outta them!

Answer 3

This is also an old joke: many soldiers since WWII carried "Dog Tags" with funny, sarcastic (as they would be dead) messages, the men that set out the information were clerks: so any infantryman would just tell the poor kid what to place on his dogtag:

My Captain had: "If you recover my body, well kiss my a#@"

I had, after my name and service number: F$&% The Army"

Vulgar: perhaps but this is the truth.

soon all branches will have several "microchips" inside several places in their bodies anyway.

Is not the Army fun?

Answer 4

all answers are acceptable...but there is another type of tag too.

In addition to the regular dog tag, those personnel with some form of full full prosthesis (false teeth, artificial legs, hands) that might make it difficult for graves registration to id the body after burial in a war grave are given a special purple flat set of tags that id the particular part. just some additional information.

Answer 5

Name
Social Security Number
Blood Type
Religion

Answer 6

Last name, first name, number, blood type, and religous preference. Used to be just name, number, and rank, or was that just the Geneva Convention rule of POWs...
Anyways, dog tags used to just identify a body (morbid I know) or injuried person, that's why there's the blood type (to do emergency blood transfussions) and religous preference (what rites to preform after death).

Answer 7

The Australian ones have Serial Number, Surname and initials, blood type and religious denomination.

Answer 8

As I recall mine had my full name, rank, social security number and blood type on it.

Answer 9

Your name, number, blood type and religious preference

Answer 10

Name ,rank,serial number,blood type & religion