The military identity plate (semi-official name: Dog tag) is a plate of identification out of aluminium which informs family name, the first name, the number of Social security/ military identification, the blood group and the religion of the soldier. The dog tag is carried by each man enlisted in the army. The plate is to be suspended on the neck, under clothing, by a cord or a thin strap passed by a small hole.

Since many years, the military plates (dog tags) used the popular culture, thanks to the cinema and more particularly with films of war. Since the cinema tries to reconstitute in a realistic way the military conflicts, productions like Platoon, Apocalypse Now and well others promote the dog tags who ‘s becoming essential accessories to any film of war.

In a field quite different from the military world, many stars of the show business carry also the dog tag around the neck. Personalities as famous as David Beckham, Eminem, Will Smith (who relates from there even to the turning of Bad Boys 2) and of many personalities of the rap popularized it. Gucci, the famous Italian mark even produced some out of solid silver like jewels for man and in smaller version for woman. The dog tags thus became totally a fashion accessory.

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