Military ID dog tag for spouse

[RPuppy]

I have inherited the following military ID tags. They belonged to my grandmother. My grandfather was in the military as a Chaplin, served in Korea, Germany and U.S.A. Can you tell me how to read the tags, what symbols mean and why spouse would wear?

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Name
Brach
ID No, Blood type
Religion

Yours do not seem to follow that (there is no "F" blood type). Possibly for a spouse on base? Or just someone playing with the Autograver.

 

[Mackaydon]

T (in a real tag) represents the year(s) the service person was given a tetanus shot ; usually shown as the latest date.
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[duggap]

Just a SWAG, but the indication of her being a "US Nat" and the year of 1900, those may be her identification numbers for a resident alien. Today they are nine digit numbers, but I have no idea what they might have been in 1900. One of them mentions her being a US citizen so at some point she would have been made a citizen. The numbers assigned today permit the resident alien to file a US tax return, or it would be a resident alien's equivalent to our SS number. But I can't believe they would be fashion tags.

 

[Hawks88]

Welcome to tnet from Niagara Falls. Sorry I can’t help with the tags.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Just for the record, military dependents were issued dog tags, somewhere around here packed up I have mine from when I was an AF Brat. Wore one of them on my chain with my regular dog tags up to the day I retired. I don't know when they quit issuing them to military dependents, my brother born in 71 and I born in 66 had them, my wife and her sister didn't.

Could be that we were stationed overseas we were issued them. We first went overseas in 71, whereas my wifes family didn't go overseas until 83 or so.

Here's a link talking about dependent dog tags.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/americ...com/2012/01/16/brat-identity-the-dog-tag/amp/

 

[randazzo1]

Very cool thing to inherit.

 

[califteacher]

Thank you to the members who responded to this thread. Even though my father was career Army, and I was in both the USMC and USN, I had never heard of dependent dog tags before. I have never seen one either. This is another example of how much I learn by reading the many posts on Treasurenet.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Thank you to the members who responded to this thread. Even though my father was career Army, and I was in both the USMC and USN, I had never heard of dependent dog tags before. I have never seen one either. This is another example of how much I learn by reading the many posts on Treasurenet.

You'd be surprised how many Brats aren't aware of them. Even some I graduated with didn't have them and never heard of them. I honestly believe it was because we went overseas in the early 70's that we had them, and I believe it was during that period they started phasing them out. I remember when we would get on the planes either going or coming, my father would pulled them out of his brief case and give them to us to wear. Once we arrived where we were going, he take them back and put them and our passports back in his brief case for storage.

Being a Brat of a career USAF SRNCO is a badge of honor I wear, 6 months after I graduated high school, I traded my orange Dependent ID card for an Active Duty green one, 23 years later I traded it for a blue Retired one.

By the way, thank you for your service!