Your Marine Corps view on Tattoos
Ok Ok I have read the posts and forums on Leatherneck and have seen many different points of views from conservative to liberal and all points in between. I have a question, why is there a need for a policy regulating the types and sizes of tattoos? I have seen many tattoos that are unexceptable to good order and discipline like a Marine playing shirts and skins who contested to playing on the skins team and when his NCO made him do it he displayed a huge "White power" tat on his upper back which he did not get in trouble for. Yet I have a panther and a dragon tattoo on my forearms that got me denied for the "Yankee White" program straight out of bootcamp and have been 2 of the 6 tattoos that got me denied from the MECEP program. I find it interesting that of all things, the amount of ink a person gets decides their ability to be a leader. Or that the type of tattoo is not distinguished when making a tattoo prejudicial to good order and discipline. What are your thoughts on the issue. Am I way off base here? Is it better for the Corps to take a slingblade approach and deny even "law abiding" Marines to get the tattoos they want (that are in accordance with anti gang, anti discrimination, etc laws)?