The possibilities for abuse by government and/or industry, not to mention unscrupulous people/orgs, especially as military (which for the sake of this conversation/tech, includes DOD, plus National Guard, Merchant Marine and Coast Guard) personnel re-enter society as civs.
I agree that augmenting dogtags, esp with med info, would be useful. I also agree with the VFW official that replacing the tags with the chip would make explosion ID/recovery of remains even more difficult than it is now, as the electronics could damage more easily than the tags, and certainly would be harder to retrieve on the field.
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Date: 2006-08-24 05:36 pm (UTC)I agree that augmenting dogtags, esp with med info, would be useful. I also agree with the VFW official that replacing the tags with the chip would make explosion ID/recovery of remains even more difficult than it is now, as the electronics could damage more easily than the tags, and certainly would be harder to retrieve on the field.