Posted on 05/01/2014 9:45:30 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Active Duty ping.
All tattoos are a crime against decorum and civilization.
Gangbangers love tattoos — and have no place in our military.
Yep.
Facial tattos a nogo for many years now.
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)
Just more excuses for thinning the forces.
Unfortunatly.
Actions have consequences
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?
You do.
This guy was already serving.
They changed the rules without a grandfather clause.
No tats but its ok for queers to openly serve. This military is run by screws.
May I direct your attention to two pieces of information in the article?
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.While the Supreme Court did carve out an exception for civil law, the possibility of retroactive rule-changes impacting punishments was their main argument — so if these revisions are applied to the staff sergeant then he has a pretty valid case. (Incidentally this shows why things likke military regulations, and 'normal' civil law should, at that high a level, be relatively stable.)
Really? I was thinking of encouraging my son to enlist as a way to learn a trade. School is not his thing, but cooking is. He has a couple of tats so he should not be allowed?
And, mine are a crime against civilization? You do not know me.
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
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