There is no way a squad leader or platoon sergeant or commanding officer reads dog tags. It doesn’t happen. This is some idiot inventing a problem that didn’t need fixing. This moron doesn’t realize that we have freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. Any of my soldiers could’ve had the measurements of the playmate of the month on their dog tags and I wouldn’t have cared if they showed up on time at the right place in the right uniform.
Concur. I have been in several dangerous places and deployed more than a few times and all the platoon sergeants checked was that the tags were present and the last name, SSN and blood type were correct. There was always some joker who had something embossed on a tag and nothing was ever said.
Each company had a dog tag embossing machine, so the tags were being replaced as needed. I had one friend (a captain) change his religion to Druid, so he could have official tags made with his religion on it. NO ONE CARED. We were more concerned that one tag was around the neck and one tag was on the boot lace.