Thank god they have these otherwise my Marine would be covered in tats!

Originally Posted by rb1651

I seem to recall that when I was in the Marine Corps, that if you were assigned to an MSG billet at an Embassy, you could not have tattoo that showed regardless of the uniform of the day.

When I was an MSG that was not the case (Sep 2000-Sep 2003) but it may have been a rule/reg in the past.

But I did hear they were going back to that rule.

Originally Posted by headspace

The Uk military has slightly different rules for each of the three services:

Navy / Marine

Army

RAF


I think the female leg thing is funny. How do they define a small plaster?

I also don't know how they deal with you once you are in. I know of several people with neck tattoos who are in the Army for example.

I also have friends who have neck tattoos in the British army and one in the Legion who has what the U.S. military would call offensive.
It seems Europe is a bit more tolerant of ink.
I also have a friend who was given plastic surgery(nose fixed) so as to make him pretty for palace guard duty at the British armys expense.
He swears that another in his Regiment had a neck tatoo removed at the same time at the armys expense for the same reason.
Can anyone confirm if this is likely,he isnt known to be a b******tter but it does sound far fetched.