Going back to Gunny's post and Axios
"He sat there for a while, and in that time, would have given anything to be anyone in the galaxy other than Captain Thomas Lasky. To have fallen in any number of the battles that had claimed so many of the people he cared about. Opening the top drawer of his desk, he pulled out a collection of service tags connected to a shard of alien alloy from a Mgalekgolo shield. A macabre but necessary keepsake from the day the Covenant had attacked Corbulo. Their names were all there. Dimah, Junjie, Walter… Chyler. At least a dozen others had been added to the chain in the years that had followed, but those four—along with Cadmon—had been the first. He wondered how many more would become part of the collection. He was grateful to be distracted from his inner thoughts when Roland’s holographic avatar appeared at the end of his desk."
-Axios, Waypoint Chronicles Volume 1
5 dog tags (Corbulo Cadets + Dead Bro Cadmon) plus a minimum of a dozen more spanning the time between Lasky being age 16 to 50, a timespan covering the Human-Covenant war and near-genocide of the human race.
I'm glad he keeps it in a drawer, he could not carry 17+ dog tags and a chunk of alien shield on his person without looking insane. PLUS! How does he get the dog tags? Is he making copies? His brother exploded, his classmates were killed on a then glassed planet? Dimah fell/got exploded in a space elevator??? This is the man who when meeting a food writer on a top secret ship at a bar hands Arturo Bustamante a flag from his glassed high school. Is this man so sentimental he's doing grief arts and crafts in his spare time? We don't know anything about Lasky beyond what we're shown and right now it's an always grieving man who stands around and gets to say a line and look off into the middle distance before a cut to black that lasts for 5 real years.
Lasky's entire thing is Corbulo and standing around looking sad and stressed about having morals in Halo.
