Posted on 03/05/2025 8:53:36 AM PST by Red Badger
When I was a commissioned Army officer from 1977 to 1997, I never saw an officer with a tattoo. It was limited to usually enlisted soldiers who had too much money on payday and soon parted with it. Now I see not only officers with large tatts but West Point cadets on the football team with the same thing. They are unbecoming of an officer, trashy especially on women and not something I would ever consider doing to myself.
I thought officers were precluded form getting tattoos?............
Yes.
My daughter has a sleeve tattoo. Her grandmother cried when she saw it. I asked her, couldn’t you have just put all those designs on a poster and hang it on the wall?
Than what is it when you have serial tattoos?>
Tattoo parlors provide an invaluable service to humanity. They mark the idiots so the rest of us will recognize them on sight. Saves valuable time in sorting the pepper from the fly specks.
It's baffling to me that when you're five years old and you draw on your arms with a pen (which eventually will wear off), they blame immaturity.
But when you're a grown-up and pay hundreds of $$$$$$$$$$$ to what is laughingly called "an artist" to draw on your arms in a way that won't come off, it somehow is "cool" of "hip."
Our kid’s tennis instructor was diagnosed with lymphoma a couple of years after he got a tattoo.
He said, I know it’s from the d@#n tattoo.
What can you say, or, do at that point?
Does it effect her work or job prospects?
I often wonder about this, with so many younger folks having mulitple tatts on their arms/neck, etc
The subject never came up during my years in the Army.
I did 6 years in the Navy, never once had the urge to get a tattoo. One of my buddies did--he got a Snoopy carrying a golf bag on his arm. We gave him a lot of sh*t for that! That was mid-to-late 80s...I suspect tattoos are much more prevalent now. I just never understood the need to "express" yourself, or "preserve a memory" by the use of a tat.
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