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In article <BZS.91Mar15155015@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>>>[Iraqui dog tags...]
>>
>>The practice in the US military is to issue 2 dog tags; in the event
>>they need to be collected, one is collected and one remains with the
>>body.  I would imagine that this would be common practice in the armies
>>of the world, but who knows? (rhetorically speaking, of course)

This is correct, 1 remains with the body, one is retained by the unit
commander.

>A common practice in VietNam (by Americans, on Americans) was to take
>a dog-tag, position it between the front teeth, and kick the jaw
>closed, "so it wouldn't get lost".

Where it the world did you ever dream up such sheer unadulterated crap.
In 2 FULL tours in Vietnam I never saw any such thing done, I never heard of
any such thing being done, and I suspect that if I had seen it done I would
have given said moron a buttstroke to the forehead for fucking with the body
of my comrads at arms.
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