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...what's with this weird nametag?

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No wings, last four of SSN and blood type. The question/pic was posted on BaseOps.net, someone said the hawg drivers at D-M are doing this now. Anyone??

By the way, I can't view this image from home, thanks to my Belgiqistan ISP, so let me know if it doesn't show. If those lazy Belgiqistani f***ers would maintain a little security on their servers and not let every needle-dick hscker bounce through them, they (and I) wouldn't be blocked from every friggin' .MIL site there is! And I pay €50 a month for this $hit!

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Cheers! M2

Mods, I would kindly suggest this captains Name last 4 and blood type be blacked out or this thread deleted. Bad ju ju to post this type on info on the web.

Fender
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and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her".
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Are you talking about the writing just over the lens of the Maverick?

"GLAD TO HAVE BEEN THERE AND HAVE BEEN PROUD TO HAVE SERVERED"

Then you had better contact USAF/PA for posting it on the www.af.mil web site, they are the ones that put it on the public domain, not me! Heck, I can't even see the damn thing from home!

By the way, I've zoomed in and out on that pic and I can't even <b>read</b> the guy's last name...doncha think they may have already smurfed it out?!? the last four is a big max nix, as you can't trace anyone down by it, and the fact that we can tell he is Capt Richard D. "Something" isn't exactly a big friggin OPSEC violation.

Anyhow, I think we've gone way past this point already by posting KC's full name and details on this forum.

M2



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Mods, I would kindly suggest this captains Name last 4 and blood type be blacked out or this thread deleted. Bad ju ju to post this type on info on the web.

Fender
"A woman drove me to drink
and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her".
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I was gonna...but if you look at the URL is from www.af.mil...so anyone can view it from there too....

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M2

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She chose to be a celebrity....As far as comments refering to her or anyone else. Those deployed members of WT have more right to speak about their Fellow Warriors than any News Media Site.

Almost all info that has been expressed on this site comes from "media"

No subterfuge has taken place.

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Mudd

My point was simply that much like www.af.mil, this too is a public forum and (nearly) anyone can access information here as easily as they can there. I am not familiar with how the details on KC were made public, I don't think it was from this forum; but I have noticed that on www.af.mil they still list her only by her initials.

As for this picture, when we looked at it from work no one could make out this guy's last name. The other info is inconsequential, as you’d have a better chance of catching this guy at the local Dairy Queen than tracking him down by this picture. I applaud fenderstrat72’s concern, but as prkiii points out it has already been posted on a public web site after what I hope was intentional efforts to protect his identity. Better so than the Internet web site we access that lists the names, units, and hometowns of all the casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan!

Cheers! M2

M2

I think its a SAR thing. A buddy of mine says that Army SpecOps members are doing the same thing. Makes them easier to treat if there found while incapicitated.

Mp

it's the modern day version of the WWII "blood chit". It was med info on the back of flight jackets written in Japanese or (more likely) Chinese just in case they were downed and injured and couldent speak the local tongue if speak at all.

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Its so the medics can get his info quickly if he gets injured and is unconsious.

get muddy

It is sort of a modern version of the dog tag, even though we still wear them. This is by no means standard across the hog community, it is solely at the discretion of the squadron.

And no, his last name is not blurred out, it's just not a "normal" last name, if there even is such a thing.

Having this nametag on the outside keeps medical personnel from having to search for dog tags underneath all of that flight gear (in a pilot's case) or all of the other gear special ops and others carry.

We asked the same questions about the last four and the blod type when we left for Base "Y" last year. They, the medics, told us it was because when it came down to it, the medics needed our blood type before anything else. I have it stencilled on quite a few of my things; helmet, chem mask, desert hat, backpack etc.

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Our guys have been using that for a little while now. The were told to wear it, so the do. That's all I know about it.

TG: Yeah his name was a little hard to pronounce at first. I got used to it though. We usually use their callsigns when we chit-chat before launch.

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Nothing special here. The DM ops squadron decided, off the cuff, to have a different "terminator" nametag with no wings.

A little squadron individuality....

T7

One comment: KC did not choose to be a celebrity, the AF did that to her.

Coach