Note to DU Mothers --- Tattoos above the collar line disqualifies you

[Florida_Geek]

from military service.

Last night one of my neighbors was BBQing and he saw my Viet Nam Been There Done that bumper sticker in my window and we got talking. Now this guy has tattoos running up and down both arms. He told me that as soon as he gets rid of the two above collar line tattoos, he will be going into the Navy.

He said the Marines started it and all services followed, that they did not want ppl with tattoos that could not be covered up with exceptions for (I forget the number he said) a fix number below the elbow.

He said that he could not join the police because of his tattoos, and wants to go into the military, so he is doing laser removal of his two above collar line tattoos. As soon as they are gone, the Navy will accept him.

I told him he just made a Navy recruiter happy. Nobody wants to go into the military police.

Sidenote $60 to get the tattoos, $1000 to remove them.

[unpossibles]

1. but sadly

tattoos above the neckline will possibly disqualify you from many jobs as well.

[displacedtexan]

2. back in the day, my friends tattooed obscenities on their...

saluting hands.

It worked.

Of course, some of them also drank their own blood just before the induction physical urine test.

Those tactics probably don't work in today's Army.

[tanyev]

3. "$60 to get the tattos,

$1000 to remove them." Disqualification from the military? Priceless.

[JuniorPlankton]

4. If it comes to draft

The government will pay to remove your tattoos.
Anesthesia extra

:mad:

[Name removed]

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[unpossibles]

8. tattoos are not necessarily inherently ugly

but many are. All opinion.

And to be honest, when I am 80, all of me will look like hell, so the faded and withered tattoos will not really stand out.

[bowens43]

15. ever seen a young man with his head blown off? yechh.......

[MsFlorida]

6. Tattoo vs dying in the idiot's war

I'll learn how to do it myself if it will save my son or anyone else's child.

[Florida_Geek]

10. that what I would do....

A "pink panther" tatoo or a missing arm or leg or dead....

[bicentennial_baby]

7. Sweet...I'm all set then

I have a nice one down the back of my neck, so I guess I'm all good!

[ET Awful]

9. If this is true

I've given tattoos before, I'll gladly start again, and for free.

Maybe a tattoo that says "CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR" :)

Just need to buy the equipment :)

[arwalden]

11. Could Someone Intentionally "Mutilate" or "Deface" Themselves...

... to avoid conscription? Or would "exceptions" be made to the rule in times of national emergency?

Could someone avoid the draft (or get booted out) by INTENTIONALLY gaining too much weight?

-- Allen

Don't send emails... I put the words 'mutilate' and 'deface' in quotation marks to indicate a sense of irony and to illustrate that that's not how I personally feel about body art.

[ET Awful]

13. Perhaps they should Fold, Spindle AND Mutilate

:)

I kid! Just everytime I see "mutilate" as part of a list, the whole "Do not fold, spindle or muitlate" days of punch card bills from the water company come back to me :)

[arwalden]

14. I Actually Have An Old Desktop Spindle File...

that belonged to my grandfather. It's a frightening-looking thing to have on a desktop... it would make a good weapon.

[NNN0LHI]

12. This may be true for the Marines

But when they begin drafting people into the regular army there won't be any such disqualifications for tattoos. They will relax all of these regulations. Otherwise everyone who is called up will have a few death tears tattooed under one of their eyes. Nice thought though.

Don