As such they have information about the personnel written on them and convey essential basic medical information such as their blood type and history of inoculations they often indicate religious preference as well.
Air force dog tag layout.
The main difference is the use of a notched tag or of a regular tag.
Black dog tag silencers are the standard issue but we do get numerous requests for sky blue silencers.
Marine dog tags those who have served in the marine corps may have had to go through the most trying conditions during their combat careers.
To assist with making replica regulation air force dog tags we have created a template that automatically formats the information to the era specific layout.
Dog tag is an informal but common term for a specific type of identification tag worn by military personnel.
A dog tag is the informal name for the identification tags worn by military personnel because of their resemblance to actual dog tags.
Army marines navy air force and coast guard.
In this section we will attempt to show the most common style for different time periods.
The notched were used from wwii until about 1964 when the regular tag was adopted.
The tags primary use is for the identification of casualties.
Air force dog tag sets are to be worn while participating in emergency operations training and military operations such as declared war hostile fire and peacekeeping or humanitarian operations.
Alternatively if you have the original dog tags in hand it may be easier to just recreate them directly on the dog tag maker page or just email us us a photo of them and we can do it for.
There are numerous styles and subtle changes made to dog tags from wwii through vietnam.