[William_Rusher]

great idea, I still have my dog tags with AFOD's number to call when you got grounded enroute in Germany to let them know where you were and to extend or re-file your light plan!

AFOD...DSN...CIV
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*****-******
Teletype
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Those were the days. We should sell the dog tags at cost and auction the bracelets, waddya think?

[William_Rusher]

I will be back at this in the morning, gotta get some sleep! FReegards All!

[Prodigal Son]

The thing that got me thinking about the dog tags was little kids might not be able to get a bracelet. Children are often the most patriotic Americans. Very often kids also have an affinity towards military type things so I just thought that could be a way for them to show support at low cost. Something like that could quickly become a cult item though, so you'd want to think carefully before selling them at cost. You might want to make a few pennies per item at least in case demand became very high. I mean, if every American suddenly wanted one- that's a heap of dog tags.

As you probably know, id tags are cheap and require zero skill to make. The machine is basically a beefed up version of one of those old plastic label makers (the ones that looked like a gun with an alphabet wheel on the top)but dead simple to use. The machine itself could perhaps be obtained cheaply from a military installation (perhaps an old one).