Active Duty ping.
Gangbangers love tattoos — and have no place in our military.
I have a good buddy that is a warrant officer in the reserves and an Apache pilot.
It is a damn shame the way they are being treated (and he has no tattoos)
Guess we should just do away with rules altogether.
Juveniles hate ‘em.
Don’t you kinda give up a few rights when you enlist, agree to follow certain military codes and rules?
No tats but its ok for queers to openly serve. This military is run by screws.
The lack of a “grandfather” clause is questionable, but my understanding has been that military tattoos are supposed to be done in a way that they are not visible while in uniform (at least in the Army), and that the various Special Forces groups (SOCOM, Green Berets, Rangers, and the like) discouraged them in general because as “identifying marks” they made individual soldiers more readily recognizable. The article says this guy’s tattoos are down to his elbow, which would mean they’d be exposed in a sleeves-up situation.
Too, the military *is* trying to downsize, and when they get into that mode, they pull all kinds of chicken-s#it regulation rules-lawyering to find any excuse to drop people.
Yeah, cuz once he gets into training, they will make sure he gets a “fair” shot. This is so funny.
Roll Dow n your sleeve and move on son.
Nobody is allowed to have any standards at all these days
Sodomy okay, tats bad.
I have never cared for tattoos except on trashy women, sorry appears I am being redundant.
They allow dirty filthy diseased homosexuals, but they draw the line at Tattoos.
Something doesn’t seem right with this story. When I was in...a long time ago...those of us above a certain clearance weren’t supposed to have identifying marks, as in, no tattoos. I never went and got the ones I had wanted because I couldn’t, at all, not even above the elbow, etc.
I was never a Nightstalker or anything similar but I find it hard to believe that those guys are allowed to have any tattoos.
“An Army spokesman did not immediately return a message Thursday. In an online video posted in March, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III addressed why the changes were made, saying appearance matters and should “be a matter of personal pride” to soldiers.”
Appearance matters huh? But yet they now allow gays in the military to march in gay parades in uniform with despicable displays of undress taking place and allow them to strut their stuff at events on base. So much for personal pride.
Good. They were good enough to die in Iraq and Afghanistan, but now they’re not good enough for a commission? I don’t think so.
Hopefully this gets dropped on a judge who will echo the same sentiments.