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This question is for all RallyPoint members, active, reserve, guard, vet and retired!
Do you wear your dog tags daily? Only when your deployed? Only since you got out?
In my own service it is unusual for SM's to wear their's daily. Often they are kept in the mobility folder.
Do you wear your dog tags daily? Only when your deployed? Only since you got out?
In my own service it is unusual for SM's to wear their's daily. Often they are kept in the mobility folder.
Dog Tags
Tradition
Posted 11 y ago
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I don't wear them, but I have them hanging over my bed, just as a reminder that once a Marine, always a Marine.
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I have never worn them around my neck. I always had them looped around a belt loop and in my right pocket. We did that to prevent them from coming in contact with any electrical components while working on the helicopters. When I switched to 11B/11H I continued to follow the same practice because it was more quiet. I have been out since 2008 and still carry them the same way.
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Wore them religiously especially on jumps and for about a month after I retired.
My wife got tired of them and told me take them off, im not in the army anymore. She hung them around the rear view mirror of my truck where they now live.
My father still wears his though.
My wife got tired of them and told me take them off, im not in the army anymore. She hung them around the rear view mirror of my truck where they now live.
My father still wears his though.
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The Army recently changed the uniform regulation. If I'm in uniform, period, I am wearing my ID tags because I have to.
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I wear them every day, while in uniform. Or when flying in civilian clothes. I just always have. And here in the 101st it is the Division policy to wear them around their neck while in uniform, unless there is a safety reason not too.
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I wear them, but hooked on my belt loop and stored in my back left pocket. It's a habit I picked up from being a technician. We aren't supposed to wear any metal (rings, watches, ID tags, etc.) while working with electronics, and it gets to be a hassle to constantly take them off, if I even remember to. So I followed the advice of my NCOs, and moved then to my pocket. Plus they don't rip out any chest hair there.
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I only wear them on drill weekends, activations or training but in order to not violate safety standards I have to live in the gray on this one. The MOS I am in, I cannot wear them in the electronics shop. I put them in a plastic baggie and keep them in my left chest pocket at all times. I don't allow my Soldiers to wear them on the belt loop or places like that. They are worn correctly around the neck or in the chest pocket. (for safety)
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