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In fact there is a explicit Military Ruling on Sikhs entering the army. If a Sihk volunteers he MUST cut off his beard, even through his religious belief clearly states all males must leave their facial hair grow into a Beard. The Military position is the Sihk gave up his right to object to the military requirement that all personnel be clean shaven when he enlisted.
On the other hand if the Draft is ever reinstated any Sihk that is DRAFTED can object, for no voluntary action by the draftee was done and he retains his right to a religious objection to have a beard (Through if he volunteers to be an Officer, even if the alternative is to serve as an enlistee, that is again a "Voluntary" action and the beard has to go if he wants to serve as an Officer).
I bring this up to show that the military can argue that you gave up your right to object by enlisting or reenlisting, so not an issue unless a draft is reinstated.
Second problem is how do you activate the Chip? The Chip only works if it is energized, then it transmit a signal. If you are underground even by a few feet the electrical power needed by the chip to activate will never reach the chip. Chip works if you go by something that energizes the chip and can then transmit the message. Careful planning can make sure any prisoner NEVER goes near a transmitter and remember the transmitter MUST have a source of power, which can be detected and thus avoided or otherwise neutralized (i.e. a bullet right though the mechanism blowing it to pieces).
Chips work today in Cattle as the Cattle go into a barn or other common area pass a sensor which collects the data and transmits it. Dogs chips are activated when they go to a vet or other person with such a transmitter. If the dog do not go near a transmitter no transmission takes place and the dog stays unfounded.
Furthermore the chip is generally put in a place very easy to detect, an ear is the most common location. People will see the chip and cut it out. If buried deeply so that such simple operations can NOT remove it, then you have the problem if the chip does not work and has to be replaced. Present Chips is you pull out the old chip an install a new chip in the same location. Some discomfort for the Cows, Bulls and Dogs but nothing more then a simple one to two minute operation. In a person you could put the chip is a similar common easy to change location but how is that better then as part of his or her dog tags? The answer is it there is no better location. As to deeper locations, the problem of energizing the chip increases along with making it harder to install in the first place AND harder to change out if it does not work (your body is 90% water and that acts as a block to energy signals, the reason cards in you wallet work is that the energy beam is going AROUND your body no through your body to energize the chip.
Thus the religious objection is weak, the real problem is the technical objections, how does physically tagging a person better then a dog tag? The answer is it is not. Having someone swallow it, just leads it to the digestive track and out in one to two days (Through that might be a reason to adopt such a device for Pilots, have the pilots take it as part of their ejection system or landing system in enemy terrain and if the pilot is captured the chip will work it way through his body. The problem is most armies have underground latrines (Or have their soldiers dig them) and the dirt will prevent the energy from getting to the chip to be activated. We have to hope the pilot is told to do "nature's calling" along a road and hopefully a plane flying over that road at a slow speed to activate the chip and received a signal from the chip. Possible but in my opinion NOT worth the effort.
If you do NOT have the person being tagged swallow the chip you have to surgically install it deep inside his body. You run the risk of infection, rejection and interference but possible. The problem is most people are NOT taken prisoner and such an operation would be a waste of time. For the few people taken prisoner, getting an energy source close enough to them to active the chip AND then receive the information would take a lot of effort I.e. a drone used just for that purpose flying over the roads trying to find where the prisoner are, making them easy to shoot down, to avoid being shot down the drone will have to flay several hundred feet above ground, minimizing they ability to activate the chips. Furthermore such a transmission of energy could be used to track the drone by a missile designed for such a mission, making the whole effort moot at a very low lost to the side holding the prisoner (The technology to follow a radio beam is only WWII in origin). If you opt to transmit at various different frequencies to avoid such a missile, not only the transmitter be changing the frequencies, the chip has to be able to take in ALL of the Frequencies (Through you could opt to concentrate on certain frequencies per mission, but run the risk of using the frequencies the chips in the prisoners you are looking for, are NOT set to (or increasing the size of the chip to cover a huge number of Frequencies).
Just some rambling about the technical problem if Chipping the troops. Easy for Cattle and dogs, no one is trying to hide them from the people who installed the chips. Prisoners are a different matter.
One last comment, if the Technology was capable of working some state would be doing it to its prisoners in Prison. No more guards, the chip would indicate where the prisoner is at all times. If a Prisoner Chip does NOT work, it must be replaced ASAP and till then no food and not allowed out of his or her Cell (To make sure people do NOT de-chip themselves). In a prison situation where the prison is doing the chipping, chipping could cut costs and if Chips works in prison it would work in the Military. The problem is that no prison has figured out a way to install chips in a cost efficient way AND in a way prisoner could NOT undo easily. Until you see that, the technology simply does NOT exist.
Side Note: In Criminal Prison system I do NOT mean chips as part of a Dog Tag type system. That can be done today. No Chip, no Food. No Chip not allowed to go ANYWHERE unless a Guard puts you in custody and takes you to a place you can get a new chip on a new DoG Tags Chain. You can Control the flow of people. Prisoners could exchange the chips, but if caught can be stopped of any privileges they have and otherwise punished. If you have detectors all over the prison with a computer system that double checks anyone going through a detector (i.e. picture taken as they go through the detector matched with a picture of person whose chip that is suppose to be, should be both computer checked AND checked by visual means. Such a system would work today in many prisons, but not in a combat situation where the Guards want the Chip DESTROYED, instead of in a Prison situation where the Guards want the Chip AND the Prisoners want the chip installed. While I believe the effectiveness of a Chip on a person in the Military would be minimal as best if he of she is taken prisoner, it has a place in the military for knowing where your personnel are or are not. Al of this can be done by a Chip on a Dog Tag Chain, hard installation on the body provided no additional benefits.
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