Posted on Apr 2, 2014

Identification braclets

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I am glad to see many of the changes in the newest 670-1. The one that I was relieved to see was about the ID braclets. After more than the last decade of war, so many of us have served with people that have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Up until this change the old reg stated that the only ID braclets that were authorized were medical alert and POW/MIA. Those that were wearing the KIA braclets in the honor of our brothers and sisters were wrong.

Here is the new part:

Soldiers may wear a wristwatch, a wrist identification bracelet, and a total of two rings (a wedding set is

considered one ring) with Army uniforms, unless prohibited by the commander for safety or health reasons. Any

jewelry worn by Soldiers while in uniform, or in civilian clothes on duty, must be conservative. Identification bracelets

are limited to the following: medical alert bracelets, missing in action, prisoner of war, or killed in action (black or

silver in color only) bracelets. Soldiers are only authorized to wear one item on each wrist while in uniform, or in

civilian clothes on duty.

And here was the old reg:

Identification bracelets are limited to medical alert

bracelets and MIA/POW identification bracelets. Soldiers may wear only one item on each wrist.

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1SG Mike Case

Posted >1 y ago

You can google it, but there was an ALARACT message, ALARACT 140/2007, that authorized the wear of KIA/MIA bracelets.

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1SG (Join to see)

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no need to google it, I will take your word MSG. Hopefully we can get away from all the ALARACT messages that used to have to be associated with the 670-1. That always made things so confusing if you were deployed and did not have internet access to get all of them.

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SFC Kayla Sondrol

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You are right, I have forgotten about that!

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1SG Mike Case

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Yes the need for a lot of the ALARACTs is over with the newly published AR 670-1 and DA PAM. If you go to the Army G-1 webpage, you can see they cleared out al the ALARACTs because now they are covered in the regulation or DA PAM.

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1SG Mike Case

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I was just showing that the MIA/KIA bracelets were in fact with in regulation to wear. Whether or not units are following regulation is just one of the many things that I cannot control in the Army.

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