Posted on 03/05/2009 7:39:47 AM PST by LibertyGrrrl
Baghdad - Before US troops rolled into Iraq, Robert Eagle, an Iraqi, had seen his fair share of tattoos. There were lots of traditional Bedouin designs – simple patterns of lines and dots – and prisoners who scrawled loved ones' names using ink and a sewing needle, but nothing more complicated than this.
"These were terrible tattoos," says Mr. Eagle, who goes by the English translation of his name.
It wasn't until US forces arrived and Eagle began working alongside American and British security contractors inked with dragons, Chinese characters, and a host of other designs that he realized there existed a world of unexplored potential. Within months, he'd gotten a colorful eagle with flaming wings on his arm, the first of several tattoos.
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Pretty cool, but I thought the military was cracking down on getting inked?
Never...If it’s OK for Barbie, it is OK for the military...
Tattoo ping!
The army isn’t. As a matter of fact, I think they just relaxed the standard a bit.
Rock N Roll Ping!
An acquaintance got back from Afghanistan recently with two full sleeves.
Not sure. My friend’s brother just enlisted and he has a full sleeve. Maybe it’s the “type” of tattoos. My other friend had to cover up some “risque” tats before the army would let him enlist.
It just astonishes me that someone could write and publish an article such as this and have only one little picture. The MSM doesn’t need to be biased to fail. Their work has become cheep.
Per some of the other posts, I was probably wrong.. I thought I read something here a few years ago about it..
Never got the chance. I was always the lookout for Shore Patrol.
I often rave at the same thing, some times they don't even have one photograph in an article who's subject is something visual.
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