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During the Vietnam War, the US Military was just transitioning from the "old" serial number days of WWII. Another words, US servicemen had BOTH a SERIAL number and a SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, starting in about 1969. So up until approximately 1969, dog tags might have RA --- --- ----- as the serial number stamped on them. RA--- --- ---- meant the man was a "volunteer", RA stood for Regular Army. US--- --- ---- meant the man was a "draftee", United States conscription. Two metal tags were issued. One to remain with his body if killed. One to go to his unit for accountability purposes.
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There are no atheists in foxholes. Many a GI who didn't smoke cigarettes desperately wanted one after a shoot-out (firefight) also. The 1960s weren't exactly a religious era in America...at least not in the big cities like NY or LA, etc. It was the hippie and anti-war/anti-draft era, etc. When men went into the service (drafted or volunteered includes draft induced volunteering) and began their processing they were asked for their "religious preference." 6 out of 10 of those men replied "...uh I don't know, never thought about it...what's a Baptist, maybe that one..." at which time the processing man wrote it down and later it got stamped onto the inprocessing GI's metal dog tags. When the GI got to the Nam he either lost his tags or, for field GIs, he tied one to each of his boots at the bottom boot string. A very very large proportion of dead & wounded GIs were mangled during the blast(s) and the boots were usually the only parts of his clothing that would normally survive those explosions...thus enabling the GI to be identified since his dog tags on the boot or boots survived. The military wanted their "stats" (statistics) so those dog tags were processed and approximately 65% of the dead men were Protestants & about 30% were Catholics, with the rest being other denominations. If these are considered Christians? Otherwise the old adage of there "ain't no atheists in foxholes" was about the only real religion that existed back then. No one cared about man made names such as Catholics, Jewish, Baptists, etc. etc. the GIs just prayed a lot...there was only one God.
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