Military Dog Tag Style I.C.E - Medical IDTag | DIY Project
okay guys well the next option is a takeoff of the military dog tag now
these are my old dog tags from when I was in the Navy we used to put a
protective shield on the beaded necklace just so it wouldn't make noise and a
little bit more comfortable to wear and as you might remember these dog tags
come with typically your name your social security number blood type in
religious preference and they come with a beaded necklace now the purpose for
these beaded necklaces is that if you got something caught this necklace is
going to break away and not strangle you so continuing on that theme I've got an
option where you can make your own medical dog tag I came up with this this
is based on a military dog tag if you will the tag itself is a heavy plastic
key chain identifier and it's basically threaded with a beaded necklace so that
it'll break free and then I've covered that necklace with a piece of empty 550
cord and I'll show you how to do that but basically you just unhook this let's
take a quick look at the tag now inside this tag is a six page medical ID sheet
you can just take a paper clip or a knife and push the tag out it says right
on the outside remove four six page medical record well there's three pages
your name address phone number brief medical history any medical problems
that you have allergies on the back in case of emergency contact tetanus blood
type and your physician name and physicians phone number and then any
medications that you're on this folds up and inserts very easily in this
key tag and again on the outside it says right there
remove 4-6 page medical record and then it fits on this beaded necklace that's
covered with empty 550 cord okay the way you do this is you take a piece
of 550 cord that is just a little bit longer than your beaded necklace you
strip out the lining core and then you seal the ends now I sealed the ends so
that they were open rather than sealed shut now the way you do that is you take
a pencil you insert the 550 cord on the end of the pencil like that and then you
take a lighter and you just very quickly flame it around like that take the
pencil off and then just seal the end of the 550 cord okay you do that to both
ends now to get the beaded necklace in the 550 cord you take any sort of stiff
object that will fit through the 550 cord and what I'm using here is just a
piece of plastic coated fence wire and I put a little piece of shrink tubing on
the end and all you do is just thread that through your 550 cord
okay now once you have the wire threaded through the 550 cord heavy button cord
from my wife's sewing drawer and all you do is just tie a slip knot in one end
just like that you slip it over the heat shrink tubing and run it up close to the
end of the strip heat shrink tubing will prevent it from coming off and now you
just pull the wire out of the 550 cord pretty easy to do now the reason I did a
slip knot is because now you can just pull the tag end of the slip knot pull
it off the wire get the wire out of the way take a slip knot again hook it
through one of the beads and then run that through your 550 cord pretty easy
to do and again the nice thing about the slip knot is you just take the loose tag
end and slide it off and you're done now you have a beaded chain that's
covered with 550 cord so be comfortable on your neck you just slide it through
your key tag that has your medical information on it
and a good smart thing to do is to run the clasp up through the 550 cords so
that it will keep it protected so there you go there's a nice military ID tag
type way of carrying medical information now a good place to put this is around
your neck if you're out in the field hunting with your buddies take a second
one and clip it inside your range bag take another one put it inside an ammo
pouch or on your field vest or if you have a
tactical load-bearing best tuck that on the inside that's a great place to keep
your medical information