more than 5 tattoos? the marines don't want you

redwitch

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:02 PM
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more than 5 tattoos? the marines don't want you

at least that is what a young man recently told my brother. he said he tried to enlist 1 1/2 years ago but was told he had too many tattoos. my brother resisted telling him to try again, they probably are not so picky now.

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wakeme2008

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:05 PM
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1. the last I hear non above the

neck line.... But that was a couple months ago..

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PsN2Wind

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:06 PM
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2. Yeah, now it'll probably

take five tattoos and an anal cyst.

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BattyDem

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:06 PM
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3. WTF?

What do tattoos have to do with anything? :shrug: And why did they pick "five" as the cutoff point? :crazy:

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redwitch

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:07 PM
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4. I don't know

but i have two sons who are gonna be works of art if a draft comes!

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Meeker Morgan

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:43 PM
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8. The Army is less picky than the Marines n/t

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catnhatnh

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:13 PM
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5. Under CURRENT recruiting guidelines...

...Ray Bradbury's "Illustrated Man" can join....

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Yellow_Dog

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:15 PM
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6. Not so picky any more..

Chatting with a former recruiter (retired military now) and he said that they are not supposed to accept people that are have an allergy to bee stings, yet they provided bee sting kits (eppy pens).

The new requirement that schools provide all this personal info, including SSN, email, phone, GPA, etc. Guess the GPA helps identify the "low hanging fruit" as their first choice to go after, and not waste their time on the brainy kids who are smart enough to realize that Commander Cuckoo Bananas only needs them as cannon fodder, which I guess should be called IED fodder for now.

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Journeyman

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Sat Jun-25-05 03:30 PM
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7. In Vietnam, we called IEDs "booby traps". . .

but I guess that's too close an association with that previous fruitless conflict , so the corporate media opts for sanitized language so they can shill for Shrub.

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