If you wonder, ‘What do Marine dog tags say?’, we will show you the correct text format used by the Marines. Marine Corps dog tags are included as part of the uniform and are regularly inspected. When ID tag sets are not worn around the neck they must always be kept in the owner’s possession.
What makes US Marine dog tags different from the other military services is the addition on Line 4 of the letters ‘USMC’ followed by the protective gas mask size, XS, extra small, S, small, M, medium, L, large and XL, extra large. The other difference is the elimination of the full name on the Marine dogtags, which was replaced with full last name on Line 1, and only the first and middle initials followed by the Blood Type on Line 2.
Sometimes during combat the second marine dogtag was required to be worn in the boot or on the right boot with the shoelace securely threaded through the hole in the dogtag.
Black matte silencers are the standard military issue on Marine Corps ID dog tags with left justified text format.
Semper Fi!