Standards on Military Identification Tags
Category: International Security || Strength: Mild
Proposing Nation: United Kingdom of Alba and Cymru
Alba and Cymru Department of Defense
Author: Aodhàn Paorach, General Assembly Ambassador
Co-sponsor: Ruairidh Tàillear, Secretary of Human Development
Co-sponsor: Dòmhnall MacDorsair, Commandant of the army of Alba and Cymru
The General Assembly,
APPLAUDING past efforts to equip soldiers with identification tags for the purpose of identifying deceased military combatants and issuing proper medical treatment to the unresponsive,
AWARE, however, that the previous resolution of this topic was inherently flawed,
KNOWING that such legislation is no longer enforced by the General Assembly,
RECOGNIZING that these flaws can be resolved with better legislation,
WISHING to issue military identification tags in a better manner and with greater regards to soldiers' civil rights,
ACKNOWLEDGING that military identification tags lend tremendous help in seeking missing-in-action or killed-in-action military combatants and issuing medical care to unresponsive combatants,
NOTING that the bodies of deceased military personnel must be correctly identified in order to inform loved ones of loss, conduct funerals, as well as properly bury or cremate deceased combatants based on the wishes of the deceased,
WANTING to cooperate with military personnel and their families for the enhancement of their rights,
HEREBY,
1. DEFINES a military identification tag as any durable item worn by military personnel for the purpose of identifying a deceased or unconscious body of a military combatant,
2. DEFINES a military combatant, for the purpose of this resolution, as a member of an armed force sanctioned under a national government, who engages in physical combat with another nation in an area of battle in accordance with current international law, (excluding espionage, which is the act of acquiring secret information through treasonous means,)
3. DEFINES field personnel, for the purpose of this resolution, as members of an armed force sanctioned under a national government whose operations include recovery of unconscious and deceased military combatants from an area of battle and issuing medical care to military combatants when necessary,
4. REQUIRES that all members of the World Assembly issue military identification tags to all registered military combatants and field personnel with the following correct and legible identification categories:
a) Full primary given name, and all other initials and suffixes, unless a full name is requested by the individual whom it identifies,
b) Military identification number,
c) Important hemal and/or medical information, which may include blood type,
d) Any other information deemed necessary by request of the individual whom the tag identifies,
5. MANDATES that all member nations issue each tag with a duplicate in order to identify the bodies of deceased combatants for initial identification and later recovery,
6. ALLOWS member nations to provide the resources required to produce military identification tags to other member nations, if said nation has a lack thereof, for the purpose of producing military identification tags,
7. ADVISES member nations against issuing military identification tags to illegal combatants with public funding,
8. PROHIBITS the intentional destruction or displacement of active or salvaged military identification for malicious reasons (such as to conceal a combatant's death or to humiliate the dead),
9. PERMITS military personnel carrying military identification tags with sensitive information to discard the tags when in the risk of capture, for the reason of personal protection,
10. ALLOWS military personnel in possession of a personal military identification tag to decommission his or her tag at any point in time outside of an area of battle by requesting its decommissioning, either verbally or by writing, to a supervising official,
11. ALLOWS member nations to re-purpose the materials in military identification tags after they have been decommissioned by request of the individual whom they identify,
12. MANDATES that the immediate family members of fallen combatants have full legal rights to the possession of the recovered tag of the said individual, unless the individual has stated otherwise in a legal will.