For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Army is making changes to a century-old piece of hardware, dog tags, the identification implements that hang around each soldier’s neck. For a low-tech ...

Service members wear military identification tags (aka "dog tags") so they can be positively and easily recognized if they're too wounded to speak or killed in action. The most current version is ...

Tucked carefully inside a book were three U.S. military pins, one dog tag and a metal plate that has once been fastened on an airplane. Brevetti, 97, collected the materials when he was 19 years ...

The dog tag of Makoto Nishi, who was killed in the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, was returned to his bereaved family here. “He has finally come back,” said Inoue, 78, Nishi’s eldest daughter.