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U.S. Army Set to Ban Tattoos Below the Elbow or Knees
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 23, 2013 05:23pm |
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| Category | Rule Change |
| Author | Brian Resnick |
| Media | Magazine - National Journal |
| News Date | Monday, September 23, 2013 11:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The U.S. military and tattoos have an entangled history. The rise of the tattoo in popular culture started with floods of inked veterans—especially from World War II—returning home with them. The first tattoo parlor in New York City, established in 1846, served to mark up Civil War soldiers.
It is that strong history that's probably the reason why a blog post on the Army's website declared in 2009, "Today, it seems, you couldn't throw a rock into an Army formation without hitting a Soldier with at least one tattoo."
So it might be strange for the Army to put forth a new rule banning them on commonly tattooed portions of the body.
At the Stars and Stripes, Josh Smith (a former National Journal reporter) reports that Secretary of the Army John McHugh has approved, but not yet signed, a change to the Army's appearance regulations that would ban tattoos from the forearm, below the knee, or above the neckline. The Army will also require the removal of offensive tattoos, Smith reports,
"Current soldiers may be grandfathered in, but all soldiers will still be barred from having any tattoos that are racist, sexist, or extremist.
Once the rules are implemented, soldiers will sit down with their unit leaders and "self identify" each tattoo. Soldiers will be required to pay for the removal of any tattoo that violates the policy," [Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond Chandler] said. |
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