being in the service was the reason to get tattoos.

A bunch of guys getting drunk at a strip club then off to the tatoo parlor.

to not take someone because they have tattoos. Seems like they don't need people all that badly if they can be that picky.

The reasons they can be disqualified now would never have been so in the 60s or WWII.

My guess is neck/face disqualifies as well as some brands of content, racist tattoos for example....

You can't have any tattoo if you want to be a nuke technician on the nuclear powered submarines. Or at least that was the case as of 6 years ago

When I came in, I had a whole stack of them, mostly for misdemeanor offenses from my youth and being 2 lbs over the weight limit for my height (boot camp took care of that).

In times of need, the military will waive these prohibitions.

Certainly for non effectiveness related issues like tattoos.

don't really know what the OP's point is.

My uncle tried to join the army and was turned down for being blind in one eye. When we got involved in ww2, they took him.

Lots of good kids out there are too damn smart to want to sign up now for the military. Your about close to 100% guaranteed to get shipped to a war zone at least once in a 4yr span. As a Marine vet, I talked near about a dozen kids out of joining.

when she was a senior in high school. Calling the house again and again, knocking at the door, even lurking at the bus stop (I was in the Navy right out of high school, they didn't want me around when they were talking to her). She hadn't applied for any colleges, you see, so they figured she was easy bait. Not so, she had firm plans to go live with my parents in another state after graduation, work until she'd established residency, and then go to college there. All of which she did.

I opted-out my oldest son, and will do the same for the 2nd. I don't want recruiters filling his head with bullshit at such an impressionable age.

I think it was before the opt out forms, and if it wasn't we didn't know about them then. We did opt out our younger daughter and she was left alone.

I'm pretty sure that's against the law if your child is 18 years of age or older.

Hell, technically, it's against the law for me to open my son's report card. And to that I say, the school district can house him and feed him. haha (Just kidding. I love that kid!)

BS. I don't think so.

I guarantee you that when the next war starts, a lot of kids with tattoos will be recruited.

With drones and hackers pulling the triggers.

seriously?

Otherwise it would have been used during Vietnam. And I can't see why they'd think it relevant now.

If I thought getting a tatoo would get me out, I'd have been first in line for one.

1. Generation after generation of increasingly out of shape kids means that less people enter the military and thus all wars will end much sooner than expected.

2. The military employs a real life Howard Stark who oversees development of a real life super soldier serum. Come, let’s make Captain America a reality! USA! USA! USA! USA!

Downsizing of the forces, etc. Back in the days of the draft, they were far less selective. If there was ever a need for a draft again, a lot more people would qualify than do for an all-volunteer military, I guarantee.

We don't march ranks of bayonet wielding cannon fodder into opposing ranks of our enemies.

It's 2015, FFS.

Fashion police!

They don't want an excuse for recruits or service members to fight one another.

Most tattooed people got theirs because they think they're cool. The military needs to get with the times, grandpa!

I meant the military brass who make the rules. But if the shoe fits....

the generation is all bad. I know of one time according to our HR person that out of 100 applicants
only 20 something passed the physicals. The main reasons were obesity and drug use. Then of the ones they did
hire very few had any kind of work ethic. I think why it was so bad here was the kids that had any kind of
work ethic either went on to school or went elsewhere for a good job. So we were sort of stuck with the bottom of the barrel.

A lot of us fat folks are still capable of doing all sorts of work, and actually letting us get jobs often causes us to lose weight.

the health insurance company has the most say so in physical requirements. You can't have people
running heavy equipment high on drugs.

But I gain weight when I'm unemployed (in jobs that aren't just desk jobs) - a lot of it, and tend to lose it again when I'm employed. If everybody starts axing people simply for being heavy, I'll never get hired on to a job that will actually cause me to lose the weight and meet their standards.

Nasty little catch 22.

I finally got it under control when I joined a gym and work out 3 to 5 days a week. Of course a gym membership takes money so there is another Catch 22.

they couldn't have cared less.

And not have anyone eligible!