Service Tag

A Service Tag is a tag that consists of one letter and two numbers, meant to identify soldiers quickly during battle. They show-up when another soldier "sees" you through a wall or if their cross-hair is not pointed directly on you, but they still see you on their current screen. This is used in the Halo 3 Multiplayer.

Advantages

It is good to set your service tag identical to your profile name, so allies can know which of their team-mates are with them. Also, if you cannot directly center a soldier, you are still able to catch their service tag.

Dis-Allowed Service Tags

Some certain service tags are not allowed because they are vulgar, offensive, or copyrighted. Here are some of them:

A00, A01, A23, A20, A55, B69, D00, E29, F49, G00, J00, I17, I69, L17, M00, N19, N64, O00, P00, P15, P51, P52, P53, T17, T17, W17, Z00

There still may be more, but the few above are the tags that have been discovered.

• When I17 is entered as a service tag it will say "this service tag is currently reserved by the UNSC," likely due to the fact that this service tag belongs to John-117.

• Some of the above service tags (I17, for instance) actually can be used. It's pure luck, however, as you may be given that service tag at random when you first play Halo 3 on an XBOX360 profile.

• P52 and P53 aren't allowed because they resemble PS2 and PS3, which are Sony consoles.