Raymond Dawicki, a 21-year-old from Connecticut with his first name tattooed on the inside of his right arm

*shakes tiny fist at baka-san and oi_piss_me_off and -- hey, what's that written on my arm?*

Just what we need: A bunch of insecure Air Force people with body issues.

It used to be no more than 25% of any exposed body part may be covered by tattoos that are in good taste

Never heard of the saluting arm thing

/former Air Force

40below: Could actually use some more of that up here.

They do a fine job of embarrassing themselves regardless

/ex-PPCLI

"they'll pretty much take whatever they can get these days"

Except for my husband, who found out at MEPS that he's marginally deaf.

Prolly for the best, anyhow.

shanrick: Raymond Dawicki, a 21-year-old from Connecticut with his first name tattooed on the inside of his right arm

Maybe it's in case his arm gets blown off, they'll know who it belongs to. This guy went further and put his picture on his arm.

I think that's Charles Manson's picture.

Oh yeah, and as far as "getting whatever they can take" False.

The USAF is pretty stringent on qualifications for service. They don't accept applicants with GEDs, felonies, or other misc adverse activities/records.

They made me get a waiver because I had too many traffic tickets back when I enlisted.

They still have standards for fatness. Judging by the fark party pictures I've seen, smitty is probably well over the limits.

As long as they don't have tattoos all over their face and neck, who cares? A lot of face and neck tattoos look like they were drawings done while the person in question was passed out drunk.

Time to put a little unwanted info into a fark forum :)


25% applies to everyone already in.

The Air Force is actually DOWNSIZING again, so among other things decided to STOP ACCEPTING recruits with obvious tattoos that can be seen below the forearm of their saluting hand. Passed down a memo to that effect a couple of weeks ago. (Again, only applied to APPLICANTS)

This got a lot of negative press because of people who signed contracts to come in, suddenly being denied after months of being on the "Delayed Entry Program"


So they quickly back peddaled and made it a non-issue again, other than looking like idiots.

They didn't properly explain things to the regular members either, so there were a bunch of terrified idiots with tatoo's who thought their carreers were over.

What new Air Force recruits may look like.

Umyli, best wishes to you and your old man. Take it from an old geezer, things just often work out. Best to be happy.

Sigh, I know I used an apostrophe incorrectly, so kill me ;(

Raymond Dawicki, a 21-year-old from Connecticut with his first name tattooed on the inside of his right arm

What an absolute farking dipshiat. His own name tattoed on his arm? Is that in case he forgets it or what? Spastard.

FARKED_IN_the_nm

they are cutting between 15k and 30k

Raymond Dawicki, a 21-year-old from Connecticut with his first name tattooed on the inside of his right arm, said the air force told him last week he was disqualified.

baka-san:Is that like having your name written in your underwear?

Yeah... that IS one of the lamest tats possible.
I mean, are you so unsure of your own identity that you need a tat on your body to remind you of your OWN NAME?
I'm ok with tats as an original form of expression. This expresses the situation perfectly... you're a thoroughly unoriginal lamer without a single creative thought in your head.

The world asks "who are YOU?" and the only answer you could give to define yourself is your own name?

Oznog: Raymond Dawicki, a 21-year-old from Connecticut with his first name tattooed on the inside of his right arm, said the air force told him last week he was disqualified.

baka-san:Is that like having your name written in your underwear?

Yeah... that IS one of the lamest tats possible.


i've heard of worse. like those people who think they have tattoos of "strength" in japanese and it comes out as "watermelon."

Oznog
The world asks "who are YOU?" and the only answer you could give to define yourself is your own name?

So a skull with wings and barbed wire wraped around it would be a better answer of who you are?

shanrick:
Maybe it's in case his arm gets blown off, they'll know who it belongs to. This guy went further and put his picture on his arm.

Actually, those are Charles Manson's eyes.

shanrick: Raymond Dawicki, a 21-year-old from Connecticut with his first name tattooed on the inside of his right arm

Maybe it's in case his arm gets blown off, they'll know who it belongs to. This guy went further and put his picture on his arm.

Actually, I'm pretty sure those are Charles Manson's eyes.

vandelay: shanrick:
Maybe it's in case his arm gets blown off, they'll know who it belongs to. This guy went further and put his picture on his arm.

Actually, those are Charles Manson's eyes.

Crap!!

Is subby seriously suggesting that someone with a tattoo on their arm is automatically an inferior soldier to someone without? The airforce themselves are admitting this is about image, not someones capability as a soldier.

oh christ someone that stupid probly was coming in to be a cop we dont need the help dude we already are retarted enough as a group of individuals

baka-san
Is that like having your name written in your underwear?

Obviously you've never been thru boot; when issued uniforms that was the first thing we did - stencil dungarees, socks, underwear - the lot. How else are you going to keep track of who's laundry it is?

/some guys even fouled that up.

beowulf980: we dont need the help dude we already are retarted enough

Well, you aren't lying.

The air force recruiting service instituted a policy on 25 November prohibiting tattoos below the elbow on the right arm of recruits, citing "military image". The service did not want tattoos to be visible when its airmen salute.

Fail, subby. Nice job reading the article.

jennyz: beowulf980: we dont need the help dude we already are retarded enough

Well, you aren't lying.

I cant spell sorry packing is kinda fried my brain.

/Ftfm and you

As long as they are squared away, who cares?

beowulf980: jennyz: beowulf980: we dont need the help dude we already are retarded enough

Well, you aren't lying.

I cant spell sorry packing is has kinda fried my brain.

/Ftfm and you

jeez I really cant type today

beowulf980: I cant spell sorry packing is kinda fried my brain.

/Ftfm and you

I feel your pain :D

/just moved, first time home owner
//woot

ElBarto79: Is subby seriously suggesting that someone with a tattoo on their arm is automatically an inferior soldier to someone without? The airforce themselves are admitting this is about image, not someones capability as a soldier.

I can't imagine anyone thinking that image was NOT important, in all services.

Maybe it's not so much that they are taking whatever they can get so much as they are eliminating requirements that were stupid in the first place.

I mean, yes, people with tattoos are generally jackasses, and more often than not they are a net detriment to civilized society, BUT they do often make good soldiers and military personnel. It's just silly to keep them out of the one job they might actually be useful in.

baka-san: Raymond Dawicki, a 21-year-old from Connecticut with his first name tattooed on the inside of his right arm, said the air force told him last week he was disqualified.

Is that like having your name written in your underwear?

Your mom puts arms in your underwear? How do you sit?

So... they started this ban in Novemeber, it didn't work out, they canceled it, and this makes you call them desperate?

Why was this greenlit? I thought headlines were to be funny or interesting or something and not just trolls. Unless they wanted people to have fun retreading the whole tattoos are dumb/no they're not argument.

Interviewed with Air Force JAG not too long ago. Biggest douchebags I have ever met in my life.

The lieutenant commander general sergeant whatever-the-fark interviewing me got angry because at my interview I did not have a military-style haircut, then disapproved of my picture because I was not standing in front of an American flag (his own personal requirement). He stated that my weight of 190lbs was "dangerously close" to the 215lbs limit for 6'0" officers, and told me that since I took a corporations class he was suspicious that I was a corporate lawyer washout and interviewing with the Air Force as backup. Then the officer under his command went on an unsolicited and extremely agitated 5 min rant about the immorality of marijuana use in this country and how nobody has any respect for the law anymore.

Somebody told me afterward that the Air Force is notorious for being full of evangelical whackos. Not sure if that's true or not, but if 10% of the people in it are like those jokers, fark them with a hockey stick. It's a pity we have to pay the salaries of such people who produce absolutely nothing and just contribute to the already out-of-control jingoism and police statism in this country.

baka-san: Raymond Dawicki, a 21-year-old from Connecticut with his first name tattooed on the inside of his right arm, said the air force told him last week he was disqualified.

Is that like having your name written in your underwear?

Not if you have brothers it isn't.