[Bean Counter]

The Marine Corps changed their dress rules a year or more ago, and do not allow any tats that will show when you are in uniform. A lot of Marines don’t like that, but it’s still the rules.

[rockrr]

Priorities people!

You spend all of your dough on a gnarly tat and you’re gonna wanna show it off!

[DesScorp]

The Marine Corps changed their dress rules a year or more ago, and do not allow any tats that will show when you are in uniform. A lot of Marines don’t like that, but it’s still the rules.

That isn't the issue here. See the excerpt below. The article plainly states that the tattoo wasn't even visible with a t-shirt, let alone a uniform (and the Marines wear even their fatigue sleeves down to the elbow). The quote from the Marine recruiter states that the Corps considers the Confederate flag to be a "hate symbol", and thus banned the young man on that basis.

I don't know if this is true, but the best thing we can do is call an actual Marine recruiter in our local area and ask if there is indeed such a policy... and if there is, then document it, and go to our senators and congressmen over it. James Webb professes to be a proud redneck and a proud Marine. If this is true, he'd be interested in it.

"Shortly before he left Nashville for boot camp, he was told he could not serve his country because he had a Confederate Battle Flag tattooed on his shoulder in an area that would be completely covered by a t-shirt, and certainly by his uniform."

[5thGenTexan]

Actually, the rule is a tat can not show when in the PT uniform (80's shorts and t-shirt).

I know a girl who was rejected for this and is int the Army. The rest of her family are Marines.