{"id":37680,"date":"2013-09-23T06:21:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T10:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37680"},"modified":"2013-09-23T06:22:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T10:22:35","slug":"sma-talks-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37680","title":{"rendered":"SMA talks tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/soldiers-told-new-rules-governing-tattoos-grooming-standards-on-the-way-1.242828\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> article in which the Sergeant Major of the Army, Ray Chandler, addressed the most important national security issue facing our troops today; tattoos. Apparently, he is salivating at the thought of the Secretary of the Army signing the new regs into effect;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Media reports last year identified potential changes to rules governing things such make-up and fingernail polish, hair styles, body piercings, and the length of sideburns, among other items. Chandler, however, only confirmed changes to the policy on tattoos.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new policy, new recruits will not be allowed to have tattoos that show below the elbows and knees or above the neckline, Chandler told troops. Current soldiers may be grandfathered in, but all soldiers will still be barred from having any tattoos that are racist, sexist or extremist.<\/p>\n<p>Once the rules are implemented, soldiers will sit down with their unit leaders and \u201cself identify\u201d each tattoo. Soldiers will be required to pay for the removal of any tattoo that violates the policy, Chandler said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose that soon as the troops stop getting tattoos, and start to learn more about the Afghan culture, the Taliban will have no choice but to surrender. Way to focus on what&#8217;s important, SMA Chandler. Maybe a couple more police calls around the D-Fac will speed up our victory in Afghanistan, too. Just being helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends us a link to a Stars &#038; Stripes article in which the Sergeant Major &hellip; <a title=\"SMA talks tattoos\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37680\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SMA talks tattoos<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}