Please Help Date Vintage USN Dog Tags

[mds308]

Need help dating these dog tags. Found on a ball chain. Does the LT. stand for Lieutenant? Thanks for helping.

 

 

[Bodes]

I'm thinking Lutheran, since it's next to Protestant for religion.....Bodes

[mds308]

I thought that too but why 2 religions? I guess he's a Protestant Lutheran. What about the date of the tag? Thanks.

[Bodes]

I thought that too but why 2 religions? I guess he's a Protestant Lutheran. What about the date of the tag? Thanks.

Officers often had an O prefix before their service number on WW2 tags....Also WW2 tags like yours included tetanus booster shot information.....I'm guessing your tags are between WW2 and Vietnam....WW2 USN were round like marine corps....Sometime in the 60's they discontinued SN's for Social Security numbers....Bodes

[USMCR79]

 

Richard Bradley Abrahamian

 

Birth Date:

 

11 Oct 1941

 

Military Date:

 

8 Jul 1968

 

Publication Date:

 

Jan 1970

 

Title:

 

U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Reserve Officers

 

[mds308]

Thanks. I did find his obituary but it was limited on information. He died in 2019 and the age was given as 77. I was figuring 1942 but 41 would be good. This would put the tags as an earliest date of 1959 - 1960 assuming he joined after high school. Thanks for the help.

[USMCR79]

He was a Dental Officer who was commissioned after Dental School in the mid 1960's

 

Bill

[mds308]

Thanks Bill. I appreciate the help.